"Inspired by my OU degree, at 60 I decided to apply for my masters.. and was totally surprised to find my age was no barrier in persuing a masters degree. But I never imagined it would be focussed on the subject of rubbish!"
Wendy is a Community Scientist. "My pride and satisfaction comes from my voluntary work as a Community Scientist with Strandliners, a unique local marine litter survery group in East Sussex. We work closely the Marine Conservation Society, Break Free from Plastic, and Surfers Against Sewage surveying the coastline from Dungeness to the Cuckmere and the River Rother from the river mouth at Camber/Rye and a mile inland to Scot's Float. It's the life in your years and not the years in your life that matter. I am a firm believer in Hold the Vision, Trust the Process!"
Lucy is Community & Wildlife Officer at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. 'I don't think it (Rye Harbour) is beautiful like a lot of people think it's beautiful. I think it's wild and wonderful and interesting. Something has kept me here - the place and the people."
Morgan currently runs the Rye Harbour poetry group and the Lost Words Project at Rye Discovery Centre. “I think I’ve had a very charmed life…I’ve had a lot of luck …I haven’t had to look for work, people have offered me work…I don’t think I’ve had difficulties…maybe in meetings as a woman one of the things I have found challenging …is that you can be in a room full of men, you’ll say something and none one reacts to it then one of the men will say exactly the same thing and everybody says what a good idea…that used to drive me crazy…and the other thing being expected to make tea for people in a meeting where they were all men or they’d say, is someone going to take notes looking at me…”
