Introducing ... Roz Hall !
If ever you are on the train and see an eminently respectable-looking, but solitary lady dressed in black, who incongruously tows a trolley with two vermillion-striped laundry bags strapped to it, you might well be witnessing Roz, en route to yet another gig in deepest Essex ...
So, this is the woman who missed out on her promise to chain herself to Frinton's famous railway Gates because the contractors nicked them silently in the middle of the night.
Such is life ... but Roz roars on unabashed, with her own unique take on everything from school bikesheds to matters of equal importance such as those surrounding plumbing or getting your shoes mended.
Ex-ballerina ... Having categorically stated some thirty years ago that she was far too classical a ballet dancer to be seen dead doing the French Can-Can on the Continent, she promptly decided to give it a try anyway and threw herself with careless abandon into Phase One of her self-reinvention.
Ex-Can-Can dancer ... Then came Phase Two, with her family's move to Frinton on Sea and the Incontinent - perhaps just a teeny bit of a culture shock? Indeed - but she's always believed that a childhood dogged by enforced school gymslips actually serves to strengthen individuality; then hung doggedly on to this belief even as she entered a time of assumed normality, juggling family life and a career in mental health support (one and the same?)
... and Extrovert. Finally grounded in her poetry, her individuality and life experience really shine through and Roz is making a lot of people laugh, as she gigs all over Essex, doing lots of dah-de-daft. Perhaps it was the fact that she did move to Frinton to live in Cloud Cuckoo Land (inside the Gates, of course) that finally outed the Jenny Joseph Purple in her - and along came Phase Three as a stand-up comic poet, teacher and author.
Roz's first poetry book, 'Per Verse' has sold out of print but is now available as a 2-volume e-book on Kindle; her Five Hats & A Washing Line' CD of poems is disappearing fast and her second book of poetry and anecdotes, 'What a Performance!' is now available both in paperback and as an e-book on Kindle! Not to forget that her first novel, 'Maid in France', is also out on Kindle under the authorship of one Lilly Boon, with a promised sequel in the pipeline. Please contact Roz through 'Enquiries' (left) or 'Contact' (above) for details and how to order.
Watch this face!