Rosa Parkin obituary
My friend Rosa Parkin, who has died of cancer aged 43, was a magician, performer and traveller whose creative talents were matched by an incredible drive. We were friends at nursery and then at Cherwell school in Oxford, and although she was younger by a year, she led the way throughout our teenage years, as we lived in squats and became new age travellers. In her 20s she began roving farther afield, particularly to …