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was born and grew up
in Mid-West England in a hospital only ten minutes walk from my house. We
moved when I was seven, a whole 300 yards up the road to a bigger house.
The area was beautiful with leafy green woods and huge cow-pat-filled
fields covering the rolling limestone hills. Our second house was in the
last street before the fields began, so we could just walk up this tiny
muddy alleyway and be at the start of a number of hilly walks. We used to
go sledging up there if it snowed as well - something I found highly
overrated due to
many painful crashes.
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Ella aka Rookie Brownbark |
At school I was always
a bit of a goody-two-shoes, which paid off once I got to the later years
of secondary school. It's surprising how many times you can get away with
giving in homework late when they know you as the good one! Anyway, I
discovered a passion for the challenge of languages, possibly due to a
ready great (though completely crazy) teacher who spent most of the time
he wasn't giving us excellent grammar lessons singing and dancing around
the classroom.
I continued with my French and German to A-Level, where I can say they are
both much harder than doing Maths, and managed to just about get the
required Bs for my uni course. I took Art as well in the first year, and
Maths for both years, both of which I got top grades in with far less
effort.
So, I went north to University, still taking French and German. I think it
was the summer before I started my second year that I first discovered
Santharia. I had been looking for a good rpging site for a while, as
although I had done a bit when I was younger, I'd kind of outgrown those
crowds. I spent a week or so writing out the character, but then wandered
off again when I went back to uni. However, I remembered the site, and
later came back to the rpg side, slowly building up a wealth of characters
and finding some great friends too.
It wasn't until almost a year later that I decided to try my hand at the
development side of things. After showing a brief interest in
Brownie-related things, I was very much encouraged to begin updating and
adding to that race. So I did. And I haven't really stopped.
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