As the senior (and third tallest) member of the flat, Sarah provides calm and stability (and excessive physical contact). As a day job Sarah plays at the University of Otago, mostly in the Biochemistry Department. She claims to be doing a PhD but those she encounters tend not to believe this: a perpetually dazed look due to a combination of alcohol and forgetting her glasses may account for this. Greatest claim to fame is being the person in her lab (which studies memory) most likely to forget to turn up to the meetings! When she grows up she wants to be a real scientist (or a permanent student as long as the scholarship money lasts).

Sarah was born and bred in Morrinsville, a small cowtown close to Hamilton in the North Island of New Zealand, famous for having more dairy cows in a 10 km radius than any other equally sized area in the world. Surprisingly enough her parents were dairy farmers! She was the oldest (and shortest) of four children, leaving her with an inferiority complex and a vast repetoire of ways to disable large males. Understandably, as soon as she came of age, she got as far away from said cowtown as possible and ended up at varsity in Dunedin where she has been happily residing ever since. Since meeting Anna, Todd and Dave she has developed a semi-permanent hangover and a slight nervous twitch but is otherwise healthy and happy.

Having a penchant for inviting strangers into the flat, Sarah has been known to welcome with wide open arms anyone from Mormons through to pregnant door-to-door liquor surveyers. A sometimes dabbler in the craft world, her pet projects range anywhere from macrame pot-plant holders to mock-pewter stars (contact her for detailed instructions). Other hobbies include pestering Dave, watching Mulder and sleeping (particularly during important meetings and/or lectures).