On April 1st at 07.30 in 1980 the biggest prank of my mum's life was played on her. Born kicking and screaming, not wanting to leave the warm water filled world where I was perfectly happy, into a hospital ward at the Royal Infirmary in Perth. That's Perth Scotland, not Australia! I know my accent is a bit strange and all but surely I don't really sound like an Aussie?
I spent my childhood on farms running around in red wellies or with no shoes on at all, dressing up in sheets pretending to be an Arab, jumping around on hay bails and using pram bases as go karts with my two brothers Frank and Hamish. I also used to find it very funny to throw hen poo at my older brother Frank when he was trying to learn to walk on stilts and other mischievous things to entertain myself.
My elder brother Frank, being seven years older, was always the one introducing new games and bringing home parts of the world I never knew existed.
Not really being allowed to watch much TV, we often made up our own entertainment, but sometimes in the evenings the cards would come out and the favourite family game among us was a game called 'cheat'. Perhaps that's where it all began?????
As I got older Frank left home and another addition was made to the family with my little sister Claire who unusually so, was born with Brown eyes.
Frank would come home from time to time and us two being extremely competitive would love to play board games and card games. The favourite board game was monopoly (can you see a pattern emerging yet?) and when everyone else was bored after an hour Frank and I would battle it out both determined to win the funny money into the small hours. Then one day he introduced us to a new card game. Poker. A very old style of poker, which, I don't believe, is really played any more. It was some kind of draw poker. We played with matchsticks and two penny pieces, no chips in those days! I loved it.
And that was the last of poker or any card games for a long time as I went off to Uni in Glasgow to claim my honours in Multimedia and Video Production, and Frank had moved out to Finland where he met his Wife and now has three children of his own with her.
I then flew south with the rest of the flocks that go every year from the north in search of the gold that line the streets of London.
It was during this time that I met my now husband, professional Poker player Dave Colclough.
Naturally I caught up with the times in poker play and now play occasionally in small casino games and on-line. My favourite way to play is still at home. We have ran a few home games at our house in Birmingham where a small party of students and devoted fans of Dave's have come round for a friendly game. I'm not quite sure what it is about playing this way, but it just seems so much more fun. We even played some poker the old fashioned way, with straws, "borrowed" from the bars at Sandals resort in the Bahamas where we got married. That was a real hoot!
I am now very much a part of the blondepoker team, which, is rapidly growing and building into a very successful enterprise, as well as presenting a poker show on William Hills sky 425 channel, which I am enjoying very much.
I spent my childhood on farms running around in red wellies or with no shoes on at all, dressing up in sheets pretending to be an Arab, jumping around on hay bails and using pram bases as go karts with my two brothers Frank and Hamish. I also used to find it very funny to throw hen poo at my older brother Frank when he was trying to learn to walk on stilts and other mischievous things to entertain myself.
My elder brother Frank, being seven years older, was always the one introducing new games and bringing home parts of the world I never knew existed.
Not really being allowed to watch much TV, we often made up our own entertainment, but sometimes in the evenings the cards would come out and the favourite family game among us was a game called 'cheat'. Perhaps that's where it all began?????
As I got older Frank left home and another addition was made to the family with my little sister Claire who unusually so, was born with Brown eyes.
Frank would come home from time to time and us two being extremely competitive would love to play board games and card games. The favourite board game was monopoly (can you see a pattern emerging yet?) and when everyone else was bored after an hour Frank and I would battle it out both determined to win the funny money into the small hours. Then one day he introduced us to a new card game. Poker. A very old style of poker, which, I don't believe, is really played any more. It was some kind of draw poker. We played with matchsticks and two penny pieces, no chips in those days! I loved it.
And that was the last of poker or any card games for a long time as I went off to Uni in Glasgow to claim my honours in Multimedia and Video Production, and Frank had moved out to Finland where he met his Wife and now has three children of his own with her.
I then flew south with the rest of the flocks that go every year from the north in search of the gold that line the streets of London.
It was during this time that I met my now husband, professional Poker player Dave Colclough.
Naturally I caught up with the times in poker play and now play occasionally in small casino games and on-line. My favourite way to play is still at home. We have ran a few home games at our house in Birmingham where a small party of students and devoted fans of Dave's have come round for a friendly game. I'm not quite sure what it is about playing this way, but it just seems so much more fun. We even played some poker the old fashioned way, with straws, "borrowed" from the bars at Sandals resort in the Bahamas where we got married. That was a real hoot!
I am now very much a part of the blondepoker team, which, is rapidly growing and building into a very successful enterprise, as well as presenting a poker show on William Hills sky 425 channel, which I am enjoying very much.
