I have a relatively unusual accent for someone from London. Thanks to 7 years in speech therapy I have a relatively posh accent (ever more accenuated when I get called posh which invariably draws a "I am not posh!" comment from me which will be somehow the poshest thing ever) Even in my home suburbs I sound different and often get asked where I'm from. No one it seems can place me, they know it's British but they have trouble with the where from part. I've grown used to the "You're from Finchley? Seriously you don't sound like it at all!" comments I get from other Londoners. I'm also able to dumb down my accent to a more East London style, it helps at times because in some parts of London if I spoke like I normally would I could end up in a fight just because they thought I was posh.

I'm fairly good at mimicking people's accents if I'm around them enough. This means I can do an American accent, I can also throw a good southern drawl in to it if I have to. I've got my weakspots with that though but generally I can convince people I am an American if I want to.

I can also do an Irish accent, it's definitely a southern accent which is quite funny. I've convinced people Irish people of my Irish nationality before or at least of my Irish heritage. Normally if I'm convincing people of this I say I'm from Dublin, most people won't question it too deeply.

I recently went to Scotland and have found that since then I can do a passable Glaswegian accent. I say passable because there is a lot of work to do with it to make it convincing but it's still funny to hear me around Scottish people especially after a few when my accent naturally begins to match theirs and I begin using Scottish slang terms.

I'm also fairly acceptable at doing an Aussie accent, working with a fair few aussies, living with 2 aussies and being based on an area of SW London which may as well be "Little Australia" means I am exposed to this and the South African accents all the time. I'm definitely better at Australian than South African but I can do both on demand.