Six Things is a series of micro-interviews with interesting and creative people, in which they’re asked to respond to a standard set of six prompts.
• One thing that’s always worth getting out of bed for
• One thing about myself that often obstructs me
• One thing I’ve learned the hard way
• One thing that gets under my skin
• One thing I’d love to change
• One thing I hope for
Ken Campbell is an American and an Anglophile with a Scottish heritage who moved to the UK when he was 13, growing up and studying in the south east of England.
Now based in Stansted, Essex with his wife, two children and pet dogs he spends his working hours developing medicines for a pharmaceutical company...
Julia Denisson is a wife, mother, crafter and serial volunteer. She has two amazing children and a fabulous husband. Living in the village of Garelochhead on the west coast of Scotland where when the sun shines it is beautiful and when it doesn’t shine it’s still amazing.
Most days when the children head off to school Julia heads down to Centre 81, a community and residential centre where she ...
Carrie Mann is one woman encouragement machine! Always impeccably (nah glamourosly) dressed and with more matching reading glasses than you can shake a stick at! Carrie loves children, and even has five of her own with grandchildren being added now too! She enjoys dancing, singing and acting, and has enjoyed singing "Oom Pa Pa" to much aplomb. Carrie loves spending time with people and making people laugh. She tries to spend time cooking for the whole family (all 13 of them) usually a ...
Rt Revd Dr Alan Wilson was born in Edinburgh, grew up in East London and Kent, and studied at St John's College Cambridge and then Balliol College Oxford. He was ordained Deacon (1979), Priest (1980), and Bishop (2003). Married to Lucy, a violin teacher, they have five children.
Not your average clergyman Alan served in a parish which had a Crematorium and visiting several thousand families to listen to their stories of relatives and friends who had died was an education not many of us recieve. He has worked as a chaplain at Reading Prison...
Michelle King was born in Bishop's Stortford and has lived in this area for most of her life. With husband David, she has two lovely children, both teenagers who are the light of her life. She has been a musician as long as she can remember and has studied extensively. She enjoys spending precious time with family and friends, songwriting, cooking, reading, dancing, singing and playing the oboe. Two years ago as a result of a dream she discovered she could write songs and ...
Dan Smith grew up in southern Missouri and started making music in his school band in grade 5. Dan is now the front man of
Listener, who with Chris Nelson are bringing talk music to the world. Dan and Chris have been making music together since 2007, on the road and all over the world. They have put out two albums ...
Melanie Crane enjoys all the simple pleasures in life such as eating out, watching movies, taking long baths, visiting zoos, going to the beach, singing, reading, baking, and much more.
Part of the dynamic duo that is Stuart & Melanie Crane, she lives in
Birmingham along with their cute little son Levi.
Having worked for Clarks & the Church she know all about ...
Stuart Crane currently resides in the fabulous city of
Birmingham along with his beautiful wife Melanie and his amazing son Levi. During the day Stuart splits his time between leading
Real Life Church and being a primary school teacher. In his few spare moments he be found either reading a good book, attending a Karate class or watching American Football ...
Bethany Richard grew up in Kent before completing a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. After graduating four years ago she moved to Bishops Stortford to complete a year of voluntary work with the
Community Church. She liked it so much that she stayed and has been working in the town ever since, in various part-time jobs involving children and young people - teaching at the
Christian School in Takeley, privately tutoring, and becoming her alter ego 'Brainy Bethany' ...
Mike French was born in Cornwall in 1967, and spent his childhood there and in Forres in Scotland with a few early years in Singapore. He is married with three “wonderful kids” and currently lives in Luton in the UK. The owner and senior editor of The View From Here literary magazine, he also enjoys painting, watching Formula 1, eating Ben & Jerry's icecream and listening to Noah and the Whale. His second novel, Blue Friday is now completed and ...
Matthew Squirrell is about to get married, to the lovely Esther Barfoot, this Saturday in fact! Matthew is a Director of property recruitment firm Dove & Hawk. In his spare time he is part of the Community Church youth team and is also to be found treading the boards in the Newport Amateur Theatrical Society. Matthew directed their last pantomime "Babes in the Wood"...
Sarah Garwood is 48 – eek don’t tell anyone – ooh, I just did. Despite her obvious quirks she is an out and out Christian with nothing much in her heart except Jesus, Jesus and more of, yes you guessed it, Jesus. Sarah lives with her 13 year old son Sam who loves chocolate, friends, climbing and archery (in that order!)...
Nic Lines is 27 years old and has been married to Amy for three years. They are expecting their first child in November this year and live in Bishops Stortford with their cat Rosie! Nic started working for Bishops Stortford Community Church in the role of Youth Leader in September 2009 after six years working for Hertfordshire Constabulary as a Police Constable...
Paul Burrell’s love of writing music began by bashing out ideas on a rusty old piano to his grandmother. Songwriting became his favoured means of expression in his teens and, to this day, is still his main focus. He has won the ‘Opportunity Knocks’ North West of England Final and the BBC ‘That’s Life’ Royal Wedding Song Competition...
I hope that you enjoy getting these little insights into people's lives and that they will amuse, encourage and sometimes inspire you.
Credit: Often you will hear a phrase alone the lines of "Six things you didn't know about...", I got this idea from a regular feature on
http://www.thatelusiveclarity.com/ website - it is an excellent site why not go check it out.
Six Things is a series of micro-interviews with interesting and creative people, in which they’re asked to respond to a standard set of six prompts.
Nic Lines is 27 years old and has been married to Amy for three years. They are expecting their first child in November this year and live in Bishops Stortford with their cat Rosie! Nic started working for Bishops Stortford Community Church in the role of Youth Leader in September 2009 after six years working for Hertfordshire Constabulary as a Police Constable...
Paul Burrell’s love of writing music began by bashing out ideas on a rusty old piano to his grandmother. Songwriting became his favoured means of expression in his teens and, to this day, is still his main focus. He has won the ‘Opportunity Knocks’ North West of England Final and the BBC ‘That’s Life’ Royal Wedding Song Competition...
