About Me
I spent my earliest years at Wombarra, snacking on oysters from the rocks at low tide or berries from the rainforest with my brothers and young aunts. I wrote verses and was an avid reader at seven years old when we moved to Garden Suburb near Newcastle. I was fortunate to attend Newcastle Girls High School.
After becoming a primary schoolteacher I was appointed to Old Bar Primary, a two teacher school which had only one classroom. Mine was an open verandah. I married Ian Watts, a CBC bank officer and we spent the following years in small towns such as Warialda, Burren Junction, Dorrigo, Bundarra, Woodenbong, Holbrook as well as the larger Casino, Forbes, Maitland and Nelson Bay.
With my three children at school, I returned to teaching at Woodenbong Central during the teacher shortage of the 1970s, eventually teaching at a total of eleven schools. This included a year as Executive Teacher at Salt Ash Primary and a stint as Acting Principal at Nillo Infants School, Maitland.
On retirement from teaching, I bought an Apple 2c Computer (which lost data whenever it was switched off) and a ninepin printer. I claimed the dungeon under the house for my working space and began my new career. Writing!