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Liz Jamieson is a semi-retired web professional based in Devon. Unlike some who experiment with drugs or sex, Liz has experimented with living entirely outside her comfort zone, in a rural area in the UK’s South West.

She likes to be in France or Spain as much as possible as this provides her timely if desperately short injections of the bling-laden, glamourous lifestyle she craves.

Liz became enamoured with France when she spent a holiday in the south of the country at the age of 13 and the fascination with France and the French has never left her.

There is a particularly dreadful French pop song with a line in it that goes, “I love the French, I even love the ones I don’t like”. For Liz, and for reasons unknown, this song has resonance.

She was born on a small island 70 miles off the coast of Florida, but moved to Spain at the age of 4 months and grew up in La Línea de la Concepción in Andalusia, close to Gibraltar where her father was working at the airport, and in Essex, in the UK thereafter.

She attended school in Essex and had a thoroughly fantastic time, being quite taken with some of her teachers one of which, remains a friend to this day. After that she went to 6th Form College and then onto Univeristy. She left university after three wonderful years, with a degree in Computing Science.

Liz loved growing up in Essex, and many Essex inspired ideals remain with her to this day. She has a penchant for fairy lights and hopes to establish as many as possible in her 500 year old house at some point soon. If only it were a joke. That last comment not withstanding, Liz believes Essex girls in general, get distorted press.

Liz worked for Digital Equipment in Reading, London, Rotterdam and Geneva before moving to Siracusa in Sicily and spending time there working in the control room of an oil refinery.

Whilst in Sicily she lived in ancient Ortigia, not far from where Archimedes shrieked Eureka and jumped out of the bath.

The Sicilians were a quite fascinating crowd and the experience of living and working there for such a long period have left Liz with unforgettable memories, (like the time the mini Mafia urinated on her car, simply the nicest neighbours, and of course, the best food in the world).

Her father was born in London, but his family originate in Devon and Somerset. He spent his adult life living abroad, working in the Caribbean, Spain, the Far East and the Middle East.

Her mother’s family are from Port Antonio on the north coast of Jamaica.