I've always loved writing. Whenever my teachers asked me to write a story, I'd write and write until my pen ran out of ink. Unfortunately my handwriting has always been horrendous. No matter how hard I try it always looks like a cockroach has stepped in some ink and crawled across the page.

My English teacher used to get quite frustrated with me sometimes. She was always writing sarcastic comments at the bottom of my essays. Things like - "What language is this?" or "Isn't it about time you stopped writing with your feet?" Lucky for me, some smartypants came along and invented the typewriter. There was no stopping me after that!

I was rather looking forward to having my own website where I could write all sorts of wonderful things about myself (it's my fifth favourite subject). But when I realised how hard making websites was, I thought I better keep it short. So as much as I'd love to tell you all about what it was like growing up with pirates for parents, or talk about the time I climbed Mount Everest in my underpants, I guess all I really have to say is I live in a house with a grass roof in the middle of nowhere in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand. If it was any closer to the South Pole, my neighbours would be penguins.

I built my house all by myself, too, which proves my 8th Grade woodwork teacher was wrong when he said I would never be able to nail two pieces of wood together. (Though he was right about me never cutting a straight line!)

When I'm not writing I'm either in my garden singing to my vegies, in the creek swimming or exploring the strange land I discovered at the back of my wardrobe. (OK, that last bit may not be completely true …)

Hope you enjoy my new website!

(It was designed by Charlotte Boyce, a Yr 13 student  at Columba College.)

Kyle