Green Party Candidate
Hi,
welcome to my world!
Well – you can’t actually inhabit my world – because it is mine, and if I’m honest it’s not always that much fun here anyway – but I can share with you some of what goes on.
I set this blog up mainly as a way of sharing my thoughts on standing in the General Election in 2010 for the Green Party, and to share some of the reasons why I am so passionate about the policies of the Green Party and why I keep putting myself through this – because it is actually quite hard work especially if you haven’t got a massive staff and lots of money donated by rich people (who may not even pay tax in this country!!)
I’m a single parent (13 years now!) and I have 2 gorgeous daughters.
I’ve lived up here in the district of Stratford on Avon for 11 years.
I used to be a telecommunications engineer – but now I am trying to re-train to do something else (the plan is still being formulated!).
I am the volunteer committee member of the local National Autistic Society (Stratford on Avon), which I set up with my friend Kris, as we both have children who are diagnosed with this complex, challenging, life-long, neuro-biological condition.
I set up a youth club in Stratford for young people with high-functioning autism/Asperger Syndrome.
I also volunteer for St John ambulance and am a member of numerous vegetarian/vegan, ecological, humanitarian and animal welfare charities. I wish I could wave a magic wand and make the world a better place just by being a member of these organisations 
I am studying for a degree in English Language and Literature with the Open University which is a truly phenomenal egalitarian organisation. One option was to possibly work with adults with literacy difficulties when I eventually finish, but the swathing cuts in adult education and social care by the Con-Dems have pretty much put paid to that!
I also like narrowboats and having lived on one for a while may go back to that when my girls fly the nest. It can be a very low impact way of living that really makes you realise what life used to be like, and how ridiculously comfortable, but harmfully excessive, our western lifestyles are.
I love music, reading, sometimes films (small independent ones!), animals and our planet home. I’m not always a fan of some of the people on it though – coz they aren’t taking care of this precious place and the wonderful creatures on it :’(
