About thriftwizard…

Great-grandaughter of a Victorian blacksmith/engineer, grand-daughter, daughter (twice over! I have a Reverend mother..) & sister of country vicars, with strong family influences & heritage from the Quakers, west-country yeoman farmers & sailors, with Celtic French and a dash of Canadian mixed in, I trained as an analyst/programmer before flinging reason & riches to the winds and becoming a stay-at-home mother and very occasional freelance journalist.

“Thriftwizard…?” It started as a tag from a magazine that commissioned a set of short articles from me on frugal living. But my advice was a little too radical; their advertisers took exception to me telling the readers not to buy things, and the series was “spiked” after the first article.

Ah well, at least I got paid! But I took a liking to the idea; “thrift” in its original meaning is far from miserly pennypinching, being closely related to “thriving” and carrying connotations of wisdom & plenty, as well as being a little pink-flowered plant that grows best in wild, seaside places. And what is a wizard but someone who makes things happen, one way or another? So when I started to need a slightly more anonymous nickname online, one that no-one else had already picked and was personal to me, it seemed to fit…

You will find me elsewhere online as deMylistrahil (central character from a truly awful fantasy novel I wrote at the age of 14) and AngieC.