Hello from W4
I know most of you lovely lot know me already but I’ve had a flurry of lovely new followers lately so here’s an appreciative ‘Hi! 👋🏻’ to all of them. In case you don’t know, here are a few facts about me (feel free to leave at this point, I won’t be offended):
- I’ve been a journalist for 25 years, cutting my teeth @portsmouth_newsbefore working on national newspapers including @thesun and various mags
- I’m an author. Shelfie came out in 2018 and my tidiness book in 2019. I also co-wrote a book about sugar with celeb trainer Nicki Waterman in 2004
- I penned a chapter for @penguinukbooks @mindcharityanthology ‘Dear Stranger’ published 2015 after being shortlisted for an award for my other blog MentalHealthWise.com (like many, I’ve had my own mental health journey)
- As well as articles, I write people’s websites and Instagram captions (want me to write yours? Get in touch). I love writing. In fact, I can’t NOT write. I write to live but I also live to write
- I LOVE LOVE LOVE colour: always have done. Colour makes me happy. A life without colour is unthinkable
- I see The Colour File as a space to celebrate colour in all its guises, whether it’s in interiors, book covers, street art or anywhere else
- I have one son, known on here as second-in-command (SIC), who is the centre of my universe and the inspiration for so much that I do. He is also prrrroper funny
- Colour File HQ (which sounds posh but it’s actually my home) is where I experiment with colour (largely by painting walls, doing shelfies and shifting furniture around)
- We recently acquired two kittens, which is why I am holding fake flowers in this pic: they seem to love pulling blooms out of vases so this is a cunning countermeasure. Let’s see if it works….
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Anything else you’d like to know? Or maybe you’d like to work with me in some way? Whatever it is, get in touch.
Martha, The Colour File x
