User:Pippa Cheetham

I live in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside with my husband and goldendoodle. I'm happiest when outside, pottering about in the garden, or paddling local rivers and canals in our canoe. Happy holidays are spent down in the south west of England.

My lifetime ambitions are to be a great garden designer and to get a painting of 'Goblin Market' into the Royal Academy's summer exhibition - well, you've got aim high!

My parents were both air traffic controllers and I grew up near to London Luton airport. I went to Aylesbury High School and then read Environmental Studies at the University of Hertfordshire followed by Town Planning at the Bartlett School, University College London. I worked at Wycombe District Council and Aylesbury Vale District Council before moving to David Lock Associates where I spent a very happy 5 years before moving client side to take up the post of Planning Manager at O&H Properties Ltd.