Hello and thankyou for the warm welcomes! To join in on this forum, I'm sure, will be very enjoyable. I am still adding to my website which is quite time consuming.
I live in Buckinghamshire, but was born in Hayes, Middlesex. I have had an eventful life with very happy and extremely sad experiences. I learnt to play the piano as a young girl, and enjoyed singing in choirs. Some of this I am including on my website. I also wrote poetry, stories, and tried out writing songs. This was the underlying foundation of my life which has helped keep me going through thick and thin.
Writing songs and composing music, I have found, is personally enriching, self-absorbing, therapeutic and, if very, very lucky, can generate some income too.
I have a 2nd husband who served in the Fire Brigade, and has a great love of classical music and MOR, too. He has also put up with us having to replace many burnt saucepans when I have suddenly had some inspiration and rushed away from cooking the dinner to writing out parts of a song at the piano. Burnt peas are a normality and all in the cause of my next musical creation. Despite this, he has encouraged me to keep pursuing my love of music and songwriting. I have two grown-up sons and very special to me. I also had a daughter who is with the angels now, but never away from my heart and mind. She took a great interest in my songwriting.
I hope that this is an appropriate way to introduce myself.
Good luck to one and all.
Marian.
