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Eileen Huckett

Born: 8 June 1956 Birmingham England

Parents William Weaver born Birmingham 1920

Annie Weaver (nee McCaugherty) born Drogheda, County Louth, Eire 1922

Spouse: Freddie Huckett (1977-)

Associate member of Australian Cartoonists' Association

Education: West Heath Infants & Junior School, Moseley Road School of Art

Eileen's ability in art gained the attention of her Infant School Headmistress Mrs Margaret Harvey who who would invite her into the Headmistress's study to paint on a daily basis. Mrs Harvey entered one of the painting into a children's art competiion and the painting was selected to be exhibited at the Royal Institute of Galleries, Piccadilly, London fulfilling a lifetime ambition for the Headmistress.

'I am so pleased it is Eileen because she is really talented'

Mrs Harvey had further influence on Eileen's education by advising her parents to select Moseley Road School of Art (1) after Eileen passed the required Art entrance examination.

(1) Former pupils Ali Campbell, Roy Wood, Christine Perfect

Career: Kalamazoo Business Systems (now Reynolds & Reynolds) Birmingham transferring to Palmerston North, New Zealand with the company in 1988. In New Zealand Eileen owned an Offset Printing company Ashhurst Print Ltd-now Acacia Print for a number of years, after selling the business Eileen and her husband relocated to Western Australia in 2009 where they still reside.

On settling in Australia Eileen gained a diploma in journalism and as a freelance writer contributed regular local content feature articles for the Geraldton Guardian, Midwest Times and Ocean Drive.

Her first book 'The One That Got Away' was released October 31 2017 by London publishers AUSTIN MACAULEY. It is a quirky tale of that one sock that always goes missing.

"The book was written for humanitarian reasons, you can go as far as saying it is a public service to finally unravel the mystery of the sock we all have experienced, that bizarrely goes missing"

Eileen also cites writer/actor/comedian Ricky Gervais as a major influence writing at the beginning of the book under Acknowledgements:

'Finally thank you Ricky Gervais who said:'Write about things you know about' Those few words made me examine things I know about and made me realise I know a lot about nonsense. I'm an expert on nonsensical stuff, hence the birth of this book'

She is currently working on a sequel tentatively titled- tongue in cheek 'The Other One That Got Away'