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With her partner Deborah runs a business which undertakes all types of plumbing work, house renovations and building projects. As it is a small, family business Deborah is involved in every aspect from reading the small print and untangling the red tape, to paying the wages and managing the marketing.
Previously she worked in Health Service Management in London, where she lived for fourteen years. Her work covered a range of health services, most notably mental health and maternity. She worked in quality audit, internal audit and finance; she had roles working on multi-agency committees, grant awarding bodies and value for money projects.
Deborah Percy's qualifications include a Bsc (Hons) Sociology, an MA Health & Social Policy and a Certificate in Science from the Open University. Deborah loves learning for pleasure; she has been enrolled in higher education for most of her life enjoying subjects as diverse as philosophy, mathematics, history and science. In practice, however, she thinks her experience in the university of life is equally as important.
In her spare time Deborah was once at the end of a telephone helpline and from this she moved on to be a radio agony aunt.
"It is rewarding to feel you help some people and other people's problems are so much easier to solve than your own."
She has been a vegetarian/ vegan for more than two decades with a particular interest in health and nutrition.
In the 1990's she was entertaining audiences with a particular view on life via the medium of stand-up comedy, including her own one-woman show which she staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
"I don't tell jokes. I can't remember them. I try to look at common place things in an original and surprising way. When people recognise and identify with what I'm talking about, then they laugh."
She gave this up because spending evenings in smoke filled venues was not conducive to a happy family life.
Deborah is now a mother of 3 children, including boy-girl twins and she lives in a seaside town in the U.K.
Deborah Percy the Writer
Deborah Percy writes a couple of blogs, Mrs Tara Plumbing and Family with Twins, the first relates to her work in the building trade and the latter is about family life since finding she was pregnant with twins. She has also published at Helium as well as here at Suite101. In addition, she has had a volume of entertaining or thought provoking articles printed in the local press.
At Suite101 Deborah has concentrated her writing skills on informative articles, freely sharing knowledge which she has acquired through work, experience and research, focused in four main subject areas:
- Products for babies and children, including twins;
- Domestic heating and hot water systems;
- Kitchen & bathroom renovations;
- The local area of south east England, in which she lives.