y life has been anything but average; in fact it has been very special in so many ways. At the age of four my family left England and moved to a small mining town in East Africa where we lived for a year, then spent nine years travelling around South Africa. The sights and sounds of nature were everywhere. I fell under its spell and have been there ever since. From climbing mountains to exploring caves, discovering the oceans and rivers, trekking through bush and jungle or feeling the heat and cold of the
