Living With Wheels
Simple Autobiography
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Voluntary Work Experience
June 1995 - 2007
- 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 and following the publication of a non-fiction book by Bettany Press (see below) I am working on a novel called "The Last Robot".
TopsyWeb
holds the outline of "Unseen Childhoods: Disabled Characters in 20th Century
Books for Girls" which looks at the way in which twentieth-century writers
of girls' fiction have used disability in their books.
Bettany
Press
published "Unseen Childhoods" in 2009, and the book is unique in that
it is written by disabled women who reflect on their personal responses
to their selected books. For more information please go to Bettany Press' page about "Unseen Childhoods.
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 the appeal of girl's literature from all decades and all forms it takes.
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 was website designer
for the New Chalet
Club from
1996 to 2004, and in the late autumn of 2003 I was asked to maintaina site for Claire Hall Consultancy (although since then Claire has gone to another web designer), and my umbrella
site, called MalosaWeb brings all my websites together.
Note: the link to Claire's site does not always work first time.
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.