Who Am I ?
I am Fred the Ship's Mouse, aka
Freya Tarttelin, who
is married to a Lorcan look alike with two kids. When
not trying to make a website from scratch, I am a full
time mother who will probably be returning back to
work when my second starts school full time.
This website is not designed to replace The Nocturn,
the Vampirates fan website, but to teach me how to do a
website from scratch, through publishing, to being a
completed website visible to the public. If you are reading
this then I have succeeded. I must admit to being a bit of
a magpie collecting almost all my images from the internet.
Things, like the Squeak page, I really had to get helped
with.
You may wonder why an adult enjoys teen fiction so
much. Well I am dyslexic and I did not learn to read until
a teacher called Mrs Warren really worked on it when I was
nine. At senior school you could have counted the number of
books I read from cover to cover on one hand. Sadly none of
those were required reading. They say children change your
life, well they definitely turn it upside-down and make you
reevaluate things. When my son was eighteen months I
realised it was ridiculous to be scared of reading and
forced myself to read 0-3 age stories to him, then with the
help of the library and book magazines like Red House and
the Book People, I slowly went up the ages relearning how
to read. When I got to teen fiction I found that was my
level of reading and understanding. The outcome on my kids?
Well both love books and at the beginning of year 1 my son
had a reading age of nine!
I would like to thank my friends and family for
putting up with me while building this website. Especially
those willing to stay up past midnight or dress up and wave
a broad sword around.
If you good at picking up clues and proof reading,
and do see any errors or omissions, please don't sit and
fume, I probably have not noticed them. Please tell me on
the Squeak page. I am working on the Characters and
Timeline pages at the moment, but don't assume I have just
not got to that part, I may have missed things.
