Scent of Freesia

It all began during the sixties...as a child living and growing up in a small, Sydney suburban town known as Lakemba~

My memories are many, and many from my childhood during our years spent in the inner south-west, memorable.

We lived there for all of my primary schooling years, and left just as I was becoming a young teen. Although the suburb has changed dramatically due to the vast amount of mixed cultures and population growth, I have the best years of my life still very fresh in my mind.

After losing mum to ovarian cancer, I threw myself into writing-something I had always found to be my 'friend' when I needed to express my feelings, my thoughts. By the time my first book of poems had been published, mum had been gone almost 18months, and I knew I needed to do more in order to stay 'sane'?

'How about a website?' a friend asked.

Within no time at all, not only had we upgraded our pc, and I was out and about 'surfin the net' with so many others., but also doing research on web designs. Once I felt confident, I took the plunge and began designing my 1st website-but it needed a theme, a title-

A dear friend suggested I think of something that reflected my memories of mum it had to signify a feeling /vision I had of her.

'FREESIAS!' I yelled. 'Mum loved freesias and we (her daughters) were almost always over in the vacant block of land next door to our flats picking them for her...in the middle of winter, nothing but white freesias.

They grew wild every year and mum just loved the smell. It was the first thing that popped into my head so we went with it~ 'Scent of a Freesia' was born and today, well 'Scent of a Freesia' has grown It now has sprouted off in many directions leading to 2 websites as well as a collection of books~ This flower has certainly helped my love of writing bloom, just as it has in sharing my love for mum~

'Freesia love forever blooming'

My websites are designed at raising 'fair dinkum' awareness to this cancer that claimed her life & those of so many others~

One woman dies every 10 hours

Ovarian Cancer is the 6th most common cause of cancer death in women. Ovarian Cancer is now more common than Cervical cancer & it kills many more women!

Many know this cancer simply as the 'silent killer' mainly due to the fact its symptoms are vague and by the time a clear diagnosis has been made, it is sadly when this cancer is in its final stage-

Currently there are NO reliable early detection tests, so therefore no screening programs to protect women from late stage diagnosis