If you need the disgraceful truth about me, it is this . for most of my teenage years all I say was my class assigned texts and Harlequin (Mills & Boon in Australia) historical romance novels. It's the cause why I take a passion of, and use, words like 'pain' and 'persnickety' in every day language. On the positive side it instigated a bed of chronicle which then (inexplicably) directed itself into a fascination with war.
