I was born in a little town called Stockport in the late 1970s. My parents realised there were far better places to live and applied to emigrate halfway across the globe, without ever actually visiting the place. We were accepted pretty quickly because there was ‘an abundance of little boys’ within my age group in 1988, and so they rushed our application through!

We felt like we’d arrived in paradise, and moved right across the road from the beach. I spent the first part of my Aussie life on the Central Coast, that little stretch of awesomeness between Sydney and Newcastle. I bounced around a bit after completing my HSC – my extreme party years! But it wasn’t until I finally decided to apply to study Television Production at University in Wagga Wagga that I realised just how much I needed to be near the ocean.

My partner (a Lennox Head local) and I met when we were both living in Manly. He applied to an ad I had placed on Flatmate Finders. Instead, he found a place overlooking Manly Cove, and we started dating. We both moved to the Northern Rivers in 2014, and we’ve been blissfully (well most of the time) happy ever since.