I grew up in Glasgow and trained in hotel management. After years working in hotels and contract industrial catering, I then worked in the energy industry as a sales and marketing manager selling gas and electricity to businesses across the UK.
In my working life and in volunteer capacities I’ve always wanted to fight injustice and as a volunteer with a Low pay unit saw many cases of poverty caused by injustice. I now volunteer with a Carers centre supporting unpaid Carers, a group that gets a very poor deal from society.
When my post was made redundant I moved to France for 7 years and carried on working in the energy industry in the UK. On retirement I moved back to the UK and to the West of Scotland settling in Argyll, a very beautiful but very wet part of the country.
What moves me is, I think, connection: sharing a smile with a stranger, seeing a drop of water on a leaf, listening to my local robin, the joy of being with people I love.
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