Before you ask: it's Gaelic. If you want to know what it's Gaelic for, you'll just have to do a little research. I'm sure you'll find it if you look hard enough.

For those of you who remember eyeboards, many, MANY years ago - I used to be known as Curuwen, or, occasionally, Pure Grace.

My brand new website, Finding Feathers, is now updated with everything you can find on here plus my artwork, poetry and some original stories. It's also running slightly ahead of here when it comes to reposting everything. It comes fully equipped with forums for posting your own fiction, fanfiction, poetry and artwork, so please wander over and join us. Registration is completely free.

To find the website, just click the HOMEPAGE link above.

ANNOUNCEMENT I am still accepting character auditions for Tribe story Blame It On My Youth! More information in the extended synopsis below.

Harry Potter

For The Memories - In Progress. Initially started just after reading book five, this follows an alternate route to year 7 at Hogwarts. Dumbledore is still around and, in his eternal wisdom, has just picked Hermione as Head Girl and Draco as Head Boy. As part of their new position in the school hierarchy, they are magically prevented from the verbal swordplay they usually indulge in. The introduction of a new potions professor, and a very interesting potion with some rather odd side-effects, soon fixes that though!

Veritas: the Quest

Road To Damascus - Set some years after then end of the one and only series, the team are reunited once more when Niko returns from college to find Juliet in a relationship, and Cal in plaster! His search for the truth behind their growing antipathy leads to stories of love, loyalty and sacrifice. If only he didn't have these new powers to deal with as well! Currently in hiatus while I learn more about the Holy Land.

Tribe

Gel's First Kiss - Complete short story. Mushier than usual for me. I like the ending, but I wouldn't have written it if I didn't.

Crash And Burn - Complete novella. Interesting character interactions. Romantic comedy with a touch of drama and tragedy.

Follow Your Heart - Complete novella. Thriller, with some adult themes. Loses it's way a bit in the bits joining start to middle to end, but hang in there for the finale and see if you can guess the twist. Admittedly, I wrote it and I'm still trying...

You Live, You Learn - Complete trilogy now fully added to fanfiction.net.

- Part 1: S4 Follow-On - Famous for the worst name in history. Short, fast-paced and picking the story up from Zoot's apparent arrival at the end of series 4. Watch out for the dream sequences and/or headset sequences: they can get slightly bizarre and hard to follow (but then so are most nightmares).

- Part 2: Life Goes On - Famous for introducing Jetta. Anyone who read these when they first came out on eyeboards will know what I mean. Thank you LizUS: she was the best character anyone ever sent me!

- Part 3: One More For The Road - Famous for going slightly mental in the end. Well, I say slightly...

Is There A Place For Me? - Novella in progress. Well, I say novella - the way it's going it might end up overtaking "War and Peace" in the word counts! Now on here and being worked on again! Alternate reality situation turnaround, taking off from the end of the last ever series of the Tribe and considering what might have been had the virus never happened. Contains near enough ever character that ever showed face in the series, even small ones (if they're not in there yet they will be!) as well as a couple of non-canon characters. I'd say original, but they aren't: Anni came up with Jewel and Liz came up with Jetta! Watch out for old, OLD pairings: ah, the way things might have been... Ah, the ketchup...

A Tragedy In Five Acts - Five part saga still in progress.

- Act 1: Easy Like Sunday Morning - Complete. My favourite. Now completely posted on here. Starts somewhere in the middle of the last series, but further forward in time, changing the ending of the last series and kicking off a series that will have a really good ending if I can ever get back into writing it! Odd, although popular at the time, pairings. Still my favourite pairing with my two favourite characters and yes: I'm still trying to work out how (especially when you look at Is There A Place For Me?) I managed to write three or four thousand words at the start of this with just two characters!

- Act 2: How Sweet it Is - Complete. Now being posted on here. Yes, there's a slight musical theme starting to arise here. This was when I was in my writing from song titles phase. Jetta returns, with a vengeance and a completely different background to the one in You Live, You Learn!

- Act 3: Blame It On My Youth - In progress. Tragedy begins to take hold of the storyline and things start getting tough. For the writer too: that's why it's still not finished! It is, however, back in action and this, along with the rest of the series and everything else I've written, original or fanfiction, is now completely up to date on my website (to find it just click the HOMEPAGE link up the top of this profile!). Many thanks to those who auditioned characters for this. I'm still accepting more (you have no idea how big this cast will get at one point!), so if anyone has a character they'd like me to include for a bit part, please PM me!

Nice Guys Don't Grow On Trees - In progress. Now being posted on here and homepage. The boat left the city with our 19 survivors on it. Now it has found land and all 19 passengers start to build a new home for themselves. But will they survive? And what awaits them in this new home? New friends? Old enemies? Or perhaps the other way round? Brand new! POLL now up in the comments thread on my homepage! Please vote! I'd really like to know what people think about the hinted/blatant pairings so far. Yes, it does centre on Jack: I am a Jack fan, live with it. There's plenty of time spent on the other characters too though. Please feel free to start arguments in the comments thread on my homepage: it makes things so much more fun! Just go to my homepage and add: index.cgi?board=tribal&action=display&thread=70

- This story is now up to 22 chapters and counting, all of which are now up on here. The rest will be posted at a rate of one every week, if everything goes according to plan. Hopefully the comparisons within the story are becoming more apparent now (yes, there is method in the madness) but I really would love to know what you're thinking as you read it so whether good, bad or indifferent, please do review the chapters either here or on my website (which is usually updated first).

Feathers, Fights and Friendships - New to here, but not new to me. This story has been running for a long time and it takes the idea of fanfiction to a different level. This story is a Tribe fanfic, but it does not contain any of the canon characters, nor is it set in New Zealand. Instead, it answers the question posed to me a long time ago by a friend: 'What would it be like if they set the Tribe in the UK?'. So here it is. All new characters, all new setting, all new adventures, but same old virus and same old problems, plus slightly more rain... If you are looking for another Jacony or Jamber, don't look here, but if you do read, please review! You DO NOT need to know anything about the Tribe to get this story! If you do happen to know anything about Glasgow, on the other hand, fire in: it's set in the Princes Square mall in Buchanon street!

Primeval

Primeval A-Z - each chapter is a complete, unique story inspired by successive letters of the alphabet. Inspired by similar sets of stories over in the Dark Angel part of the board.

Please, Please Don't Leave Me - Complete. Following Abby and Connor's life in the Cretaceous, their struggles and triumphs. Romance/Drama. Has a corresponding You Tube video under the same title. WARNING: has an alternate ending. Chapter 8 is one ending, Chapter 9 another. Only one follows on to the sequel.

Perhaps Love - Complete. Sequel to Please, Please Don't Leave Me. Following Abby and Connor's life after leaving the Cretaceous. Also Romance/Drama. Also has corresponding You Tube video under the title "You", by same You Tube user.

My Series 3:

Stormy Weather - Complete. This nightmarish sketch may cause confusion. However, it may also be of use to the readers of Mirror, Mirror and its subsequent series.

Mirror, Mirror - Complete. Picking up the story three months after the end of series two, this takes the team further afield than they have been previously, in this era, anyway. Start of a series of individual stories each building on a common thread and grand finale. That's the plan, anyway.

Off The Wall - Complete. Sequel to Mirror, Mirror. The beast of Bodmin never looked so... er... green?

Bad Penny - Complete. Sequel to Off The Wall. With Cutter left in shock by Helen's revelation at the end of Off The Wall, the fate of the world seems to rest on Connor's shoulders. The only problem is, he has troubles of his own. Women troubles! Plus, there seems to be something rotten in the heart of the ARC... And how many soldiers does it take to catch a fish?

Oh, You Pretty Things - Complete! The final instalment of my primeval series. With our heroes now split into two groups, how will each team cope with working alone? Is there any truth in the old saying "United we stand, divided we fall"? And what exactly are Helen and her mystery man up to?

My Series 4:

Episode 1: MIA - A work now complete (the slow way thanks to aforementioned computer problems) tracking the fates of our heroes following the end of the actual series three (not a follow-on from my own one). New characters, new creatures and new eras. Watch out for the blatta bugs! Anyone who can pick out any of the influences and references gets cookies for letting me know! :)

Episode 2: He Ain't Heavy - Still in progress, but getting there, this story follows our heroes, old and new, on their joint and individual adventures. Look out for the return of one or two characters we just love to hate.

My Primeval Spin Off:

Everybody Loves A Hero: Yes, it's set in North America. That means the whole of Canada and the US. That means I'm not tying myself to anything the official lot are talking about doing. This series, for a change, is already fully cast in my head, with the cast of the main lead roles listed on the first chapter and other "guest appearances" due to turn up in later chapters. It was written as an homage to my favourite actors and actresses from across the pond, not just to the idea that the Primeval team are planning to write a spin off, so do not expect it to follow them in any way. Technically, they're writing fanfiction now, and two can play at that game.

Britannia High

If Only - Complete. A "Christmas Special" style short story in homage to one of my favourite characters from the show, whom I think was sadly underused. Yes, it is a fantasy. Yes, it is Ronnie's fantasy. Yes, it is slightly surreal. And yes, it is a bit of a pile of fluffy, pink, sugary sweet (and perhaps tongue-in-cheek) romantic nonsense written by an utterly unromantic cynic. What can I say: the evil plot bunnies kidnapped my sense of taste and reason yet again. Do let me know what you think though!

If any lonesome scriptwriters trawling the oceans of fanfiction for ideas want to borrow any of mine that are posted on this website: feel free. After all: I borrowed your characters and backgrounds when I wrote them. Anybody wishing to contact me about anything in particular can do so either through my own website, at the web address given a few paragraphs above, or on this one.

Dark Angel

Five Years On: Episode 1 - Complete. A Ronseal title. Five years have passed since the transgenics raised the flag over Terminal City and much has changed. Old friends and lovers are gone and new enemies have arisen, or have they? Yes, there will be an episode 2, eventually.

Summaries for those who haven't seen the series/read the book:

The Tribe: A post-apocalyptic drama in which a mystery virus has wiped out all the adults, leaving only confused children to rebuild the world. Set in New Zealand, making the sense of isolation even greater, the remaining children have grouped together into "Tribes". Follows the progress of one tribe in particular: the Mall Rats. For detailed summaries, check out tribeworld.com.

This lasted for five series in which babies were born, people died and a technologically advanced tribe called the Technos turned up to bring that extra edge of incomprehensible computer equipment and virtual reality to the story line. If you think that sounds bizarre, just wait until you get to the end of the You Live, You Learn trilogy: even I have trouble working out how I got from the end of series 4 to the end of that!

Veritas: The Quest: Single series American show in which a rather dishy archaeologist (yes, he is!), his precocious teenage son and his multi-talented team hunt down artefacts, including the "Holy Grail" which make up the mythical "Ring of Truth", pursued by bad guys called Dorna, protected by the guy from The Mummy (Imhotep) and funded by a mysterious benefactor who might have been pals with Leonardo da Vinci. Sadly axed after just one series, during which they only found three pieces of the ring of truth, but also turned up a whole shedload of other stuff!

Harry Potter: Actually, I honestly don't believe there are still people out there who don't know at least the bare bones of the Harry Potter story.

Primeval: A professor of evolutionary zoology, his lab technician and possibly least favourite student discover rips in the space-time continuum, called anomalies, which let things travel through time and space. They are joined by a lizard enthusiast and the home office to investigate, clean up after and cover up the anomalies and whatever comes through them, including the true star of the show: an over-intelligent coelurosauravus called Rex! All the while they have to put up with various spanners thrown in the works by said professor's wife who disappeared eight years ago and, unbeknown to any of the rest, including the lab tech whom she'd had an affair with, spent the eight years travelling through the anomalies. The jury is still out on whether she's psychotic or just plain evil. Currently the closest sci-fi to my heart as I get to play my specialist knowledge card on both the zoological and the evolutionary front! Don't ask me about the physics though!

Britannia High: Take modern day High School Musical and cross it with good old Fame. Take away the legwarmers and add Gary Barlow as director of music and Arlene Phillips as the brain behind it all and you have the basics of Britannia High: a performing arts school where the six key characters are students from all walks of life taking a chance on doing what they love and running into all sorts of trouble along the way, aided and abetted by the school's three teachers (I'd hate to see their timetables!) and a young dinner lady from Grimsby. Really: what more could you want?

Dark Angel: For years the US government had been experimenting with genetic modification. Eventually, they created a breed of genetically modified soldier that could pass for an ordinary human. They called them the X5 series. In the winter of 2009, a group of these X5 soldiers, mere children though they were, escaped from their barracks. Those who survived spread out and were assimilated into normal human society, a society which, after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse brought the US to its knees, was easy to get lost in. Years later, the series begins by following X5-452, known to the human world as Max Guavera, who pays her way through the world as a messenger with a neat sideline in cat-burgling. It follows her trials and tribulations as she unravells the mystery of her birth and creation.