Living With Wheels
Simple Autobiography
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Voluntary Work Experience
The New Chalet Club
June 1995 - date
- Membership Secretary. Between 1995 and 2001 my duties involved maintenance of member records, quarterly mail outs and replying to questions about the club.
- Web Administration. The creation, design and upkeep of the club website (from 1998 onwards) and responding to enquiries about the club.
- Librarian. The smooth-running of the club's Library.
Scope - Milton Keynes Community Support Service, Milton Keynes
Jun 1998 - Feb 2000
- Responsible for sending out domiciliary invoices, collating transport usage sheets for billing, assisting with budget preparation and the typing of confidential documents as well as routine memos.
Neat Print (Milton Keynes Resource Centre), Milton Keynes
Jun 1993 - Sept 1997
- Preparing estimates for customers, writing letters and maintaining a "dummy" set of figures relating to sales.
The Spastics Society - East Region, Huntingdon
Feb 1992 - Sept 1992
- Part of the core recruitment team involved in the establishment of a service for profoundly disabled adults who were being relocated from a long-stay mental hospital into a smaller community-based service.
Milton Keynes Resource Centre, Milton Keynes
Apr 1989 - Jun 1993
- Secretarial support, including confidential documentation and training handouts, analysing data from databases, spreadsheets and surveys.
Neath Hill Professional Workshop, Milton Keynes Jun
1984 - Apr 1989
- Typing of training notes for courses run by the staff as well as invoices etc.
My Writing
I cannot remember a time when I did not write but now I am preparing to go in a radically different direction with a book which I dubbed 'Topsy' in exasperation.
TopsyWeb
holds the outline of the book which looks at the way in which twentieth-century writers of girls' fiction have used disability in their books.
I hope that I will have the book ready for publication by Bettany Press in late 2007-early 2008, and is unique in that it is being written by disabled women who reflect on their personal responses to their selected books.
For more information please e-mail me.
I enjoy reading, watching television, writing for pleasure, and I collect children's books both as a hobby and as an investment, in particular, and girl's school-stories written prior to the 1970s. While in Milton Keynes I also enjoyed reading plays with a group called Fletchers Players.
Between 1998 and 2005 I was List Admin for an e-mail discussion list called Girlsown, which discusses girl's literature from all decades and all forms it takes. Although I am no longer List Admin, I host the Information Website for the list.
I find working on websites very calming - even when they don't do what I want them to - and formalised my self-taught understanding of HTML in 2002 when I gained my Diploma in Web Design. I am website designer for the New Chalet Club and in the late autumn of 2003 I was asked to maintain a site for Claire Hall Consultancy, and my umbrella site, called MalosaWeb brings all my websites together.
Association of Certified IT Professionals
2002
Diploma in Web Design.
Keele University, Keele
1992
Certificate in Information Technology.
Essex University, Colchester
1983
B. A. in Literature, 2.i Hons.
Secondary Education at school and college, Tonbridge and Coventry
1975 - 1980
8 'O' Levels, 1 'A' Level and 1 years Open University pass.