About

Okay so who am I? My name is Sarah (what gave that away?!) and I'm 30 (just). I run my own business which is a web design agency, offering accessible web design and PHP/MySQL development. I'm happy to say after 6 years in business it's a success. I don't work alone, I hire other people to work on various projects with me. Personally I'm a PHP developer and am really not a designer, plus business is booming and I don't have the time to do the other bits (CSS/XHTML) that I could manage to do if I put my mind to it! In comes David who is a CSS/XHTML and Accessibility Guru and my significant other. He works with me full time after I got him to quit his full time job in January 2006.

David and I have been together since August 2005 and living together full time since December 2005. We now live up on the North tip of the Wirral Peninsular, just North of Birkenhead. It's not my natural home, to be honest I don't really know to say where it is.

Life so far has been pretty varied. I've lived in various parts of England, Wales, Germany and Austria. My dad was in the RAF for the first 20 years of my life so we moved around a lot. I've spent most of my time living in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, however I've also lived near Dusseldorf, Germany; London, England; Cardiff, Wales; near Salzburg, Austria; and finally near Chester, Cheshire.

I first moved to Germany when I was 10 for 3 years. It was quite a shock to the system but I soon settled in abroad and had some good times. I then spent 3 years back in England at a Grammar school for my GCSEs. Honestly? I hated my time there. I was picked on for no real reason, bullied and pretty much hated every week day at school. The day I heard I was back off to Germany from my parents was the day life turned around again. So I returned to Germany at 16 for a further 2 years for my A'Levels in Maths, Computer Science and Business Studies. From there I moved to Wales, to Glamorgan University in Pontypridd, initially to study Mathematics and Accountancy but after the first Semester I felt more at ease with Maths and Computers and so switched my degree.

When I finished University I moved back home to Buckinghamshire and figured I'd take a month off and then just walk into a job, oh how wrong I was! I contacted various job agencies and had no luck at all. I started to temp which was easy enough to get into and after a few months I landed a job in London as a web developer maintaining a very busy web site. I stayed there for about 15 months and then left when I felt I had nothing further to do there. I left with no job to go to. I had a little freelance work to keep me going for a month but that was all. That is when my own business became a reality and I've never been fulltime employed since.

Since then I've spent 3 winters working in Austria as a ski instructor. I also spent 18 months living and contracting in Cardiff however I moved up to Cheshire in December 2005 and in November 2007 moved to our present home.