Born in Nottingham in April 1950, Gill led a fairly ordinary life albeit growing up with a musical and literary background; links to the Royal Navy were ever present though, so it is not surprising that at the age of eighteen she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service as a Radio Operator (Morse). There followed several happy years, both in this country and overseas, leaving the service with the rate of Petty Officer Wren Radio Supervisor (Morse) on the birth of her first child.

Settled in Lincolnshire, where she still resides, Gill concentrated for a while, on bringing up three children and continuing her interest in Guiding before training to be a Basic Skills lecturer in Further and Adult Education. As an interest Gill began to look into tracing her family history and this led to a far more in-depth interest in research and other writing related projects, mainly of a non-fiction and historical nature for the local newspaper. Along with a lifelong interest in singing this ensured she was never short of something to do.

Whilst serving Gill met and married her husband, Arthur and they have three, now very grown-up, children and two grandchildren. It is due to her husband and his job in the Royal Navy as a Meteorological Observer that she became involved with the weather! In 2005, Gill’s husband and another ex RN Met Observer founded Cloud Observers- an Association for retired Royal Navy Meteorologists. With Gill as secretary (reasoning – because she can write!!) life seemed all set to become fairly busy; then came the request to write a book on the history of the old RN Met Branch, now disbanded; a carrot just too hard to resist, with its promise of in-depth research. This has, of course, led to the writing of other articles, archiving documents and photographs as well as other old weather instruments. There is never a spare moment to be had and Gill really does wonder how she ever had time to go out to work!