An assignment on climate change in my first year at university, revealed how little I knew. Finding out about climate change, the processes and the reasons behind it, filled me with a sense of doom and guilt.
On 9th November, 1936, a blonde newborn breathed her first in Sydney, Australia. The family domiciled in Crown Street, moved to New Zealand and returned after the war when she was 16 years of age to reside in a waterfront home in Cronulla. She was christened, Valerie May.