[6] It played many live shows and appeared as a feature act and as backing vocal group on the television programme That's Country.
[7][3] She co-wrote and performed a piece of music for the opening ceremony of the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990, and has played and recorded with singer songwriter Al Hunter and The 1932 Jazz Orchestra.
[3] When she began to write, her interest in the overlap between history and legends led to fictional re-imaginings of Late Bronze Age Greece, around the time of the Trojan War, featuring the Greek hero Odysseus.
She has been to Greece three times, has written about some of her travels there[8] and continues to be fascinated by the layers of history visible in the ancient sites and buildings.
[9] In 2014 she spoke at Victoria University of Wellington's Athens to Aotearoa conference, looking from a writer's perspective at Classical Greek influences in New Zealand.