Meet the Team:
Your hosts:
MANDY ALLEN
Visit my blog at Mandy Allen.com
My name is Mandy Allen. I am 49 years old and live in North Norfolk, UK.
My working life started in banking, moving into accountancy after that. It was at this point that I realised life is for living and I went to Paris for 3 wonderful years. On my return I went into insurance, then worked as a secretary (with a difference!) for a kitchen firm. When I say ‘with a difference’ it was very different to the office based roles I’d had previously. I was often found in the workshop up to my elbows in wax, or helping one of the carpenters with some woodwork, I drove the lorries loaded with equipment and fittings to jobs all over the country, helped the fitters to fit the kitchens, and even painted or wax finished a good number of them! For the rest of the time I took responsibility for the office work, wages, letters etc, and I went out to photograph kitchens once they had been finished for our portfolio. After 10 years in this job I went to Derby and took my degree in Youth Work, then moved on to a PhD. I never finished the PhD (I still say it is ‘work in progress’!).
I now own two antiques centres in North Norfolk, work part time for the local council as a youth worker, and spend a fair amount of time on the internet. I am a moderator on an internet marketing forum, have a blog, and am a partner on a number of information and internet marketing websites.
In my spare time I sing in a church choir that I have been part of since I was 11, I run the local spritualist church and I am a part time life coach. I like walking on the beach, holidays abroad, and cooking for myself and friends.
I hope to bring to The Silver Scene my business experience, my life coaching skills, and I hope my extensive religious background will help people with any spiritual matters.
Enjoy the journey.
Links to my other websites:
PAT GRAHAM
The Silver Scene has been living in my heart and mind for several years. It started perking with me when I couldn’t find other senior membership sites that offered more quality for the members than ads for other services or resources for sale.
Fully realizing that this project was more than I could handle alone, I offered a partnership to several marketers I respected, but no one accepted my offer to join me. I kept looking for partners very well-versed in Internet businesses and finally found the perfect business partner to make the Silver Scene come alive.
Mandy Allen is well-qualified to provide rewarding resources and experiences for our members. You can meet her on this page.
As for me, I’ve been a dreamer of possibilities all my life. While others usually see problems or difficulties to sidestep or avoid, I often see “what could be” with a little TLC and some technical applications. I’m not the techie…Mandy is.
I am a ghostwriter for Internet marketers and write ebooks, short reports and articles for my clients constantly. My major interests are digital photography, graphic design, spiritual exploration, and creating new content for The Silver Scene.
My daily passion is snapping digital photographs of Nature’s beauty that exists all around me. I live in a senior complex and the other residents are used to seeing me standing on the walk at sunrise, barefoot and in my pajamas, snapping shots of a gorgeous sunrise or an interesting set of clouds. Every flower that blooms around me has been captured by my camera. Selections from my photo archives will be available in several forms for the members of The Silver Scene.
You can see two of my favorite photos right here. I took both of them in the apartment complex in Anaheim, California, where I lived for several years. 
I was on the way to the mail boxes after a rainstorm had subsided and I noticed the small snail 
staying out of the puddles while napping in a daisy. As I was trying to get just the right angle for the photo, my foot slipped off the wet pathway and I fell into the Kapok tree in the other photo. My left arm got stabbed several times as I snapped the photo before shrieking and removing my arm from those very sharp tree-bark daggers. Dedicated photographers try not to pay too much attention to incidental problems when snapping photos!
In real life, I’ve created a technical hot line for a major sales force and designed training sessions, been a system designer and traveled the State of California teaching parolees to begin new lives without drugs.
Enjoy your visit to The Silver Scene. I hope to see your name on our membership list soon.
We are not your average membership site!
Pat
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SUE DAVIDSON
My name is Sue Davidson and I live in a very small town in North Carolina called Stovall where I have now lived for 16 years; population 378. Prior to moving here I lived in Fairfax, VA, 24 miles from the heart of Washington DC for 29 years. I still visit Fairfax because my son lives there but I can tell you right now that I’m staying in Stovall.
I have been married to my husband for 38 years. We have a son, a daughter and three granddaughters with the youngest being born January 17, 2010. It really is great being a grandmother – you can send them home.
I have known Pat Graham, the founder of The Silver Scene, for over 20 years. We met when working together in technical support for software and hardware installations and support. She was at the end of a hotline and I was in the field. When the problems couldn’t be solved over the telephone based on input from the user I would go there in person. Pat called me her “eagle eyes” and “spare brain.” I am looking forward to continuing in these capacities with The Silver Scene.
I am a Sunday School Teacher and a Youth Group Leader at my church. I have the youth (ages 13 and up) because no one else seems to have the patience for them. Having spent most of my career in technical support spending hours looking for a misplaced letter, invisible space, wrong number or other such tiny things that can ruin everything, what is a few hormonal teenagers that need someone to give them the straight truth and good guidance for life? I love seeing the absolute shocked looks on their faces when they discover that the Bible says “six days ye shall work” because they definitely only planned on five or less. In our group we take life down to where the rubber meets the road (a saying that they also were unfamiliar with.) Oh well, wish me luck with these teenagers!
Additionally, I produce the church monthly calendar and monthly newsletter (remember I live in a SMALL town) so I am always proofreading. Therefore in the capacity of chief proofreader for The Silver Scene everything should come naturally. And it is my hope that everyone out there who joins this site will truly enjoy it and find its contents most useful. Remember we will always value your comments and insight if you share it with us. To the Future!!!
