When I was a little girl, we sat around the open fire and told stories. I can still feel the excitement, the sadness , the love, that came from those times sitting on my mothers knee around the fire. There were ten children in my family ( most are gone now)Mum told stories about ouI history . About my Nanna's cow "Laura"about how she spread grain for the chickens in such a lady like manner and how whilst she was doing that she would bend down, grab one of the unsuspecting chickens and ring it's neck for grandads tea. I always wanted to write the stories down but I couldn't spell and I didn't know where the comma's went. I didn't want to tell people so I kept it all in side. When I became a Christian, I thought that is pride. Once I read the verse Ï can do all things through Christ who strengthens, I was up and away. I found a friend to correct the spelling. I read my stories out loud to her and she put the full stops & commas in. The result was my first book " In Search of Elizabeth", the story of the life of my Gypsyies in Western Australia. It is one of 10 books now. When I got my first computer and discovered the Thesaraus and the spell check, I never looked back and I can tell you that ,I never write a letter or a book without those tools because This is the day that the Lord has made" for me- Jan

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