A former careers information officer, English teacher, youth leader and conference host, Tarja Moles now works as a freelance writer and researcher. <br <br A native of Savonlinna (Nyslott in Swedish), Eastern Finland, she was lured into settling down in the UK after an encounter with an English dentist at the British Museum caf�. She warned him that she had a history of biting dentists’ fingers, but he merely shrugged his shoulders, smiled and bought a pair of gauntlets.<br <br She is a typical Finn in that she loves the sauna, misses plunging into frozen lakes and is allergic to everything. But she believes the genes for endurance sports must have skipped a generation… since the game of geocaching with a GPS on Dartmoor is about as much as she can handle.<br <br Grateful thanks are given to David Moles for his British perspective and Markku Jaakkola for his Finnish one; and to Eric Dickens and Jussi Bright for their invaluablecontributions.<br <br Further information on Tarja Moles can be found here: http://www.tarjamoles.com/humorous-writing.html