Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Nine.
Good morning world – I think I can face you again. It has been an utterly miserable couple of weeks. It is only the steadfast support of Mr G that has firmly plonked me down in front of the computer again this morning with instructions to write. He’s topped me up with sausage sandwiches and endless cups of tea, and told me to do what I do best. Write from the heart – and f**k ‘em all.
It’s coming under the heading of ‘Past Lives’ because that is what set the misery train rolling down the hill inexorably in my direction. That train collided with my present life 15 days ago; it has felt as though there were an endless series of carriages following on behind. What happened?
Well, I was sitting in the sunshine with a friend who had just arrived from England, and was planning to spend a week painting in the Dordogne sunshine, when a van pulled up at the gate. A courier from England! Hand delivery. A bulging file, some eight inches thick. I knew it was on its way, I had had a phone call the day before to warn me. Usually, (like when someone sends me Yorkshire tea-bags from England!) such packages take two weeks or so to arrive, but money was no object to the sender of this package, they had employed a courier to drive it down here the next day.
If I sound uncharacteristically sorry for myself, it is because I am. The package came from Barnardos, and in some 500 pages, was a record of my entire family history, the letters that I had not be allowed to receive, the information that was considered too delicate at the time for me to know, the ‘me’ before I was old enough to have memories. The ‘me’ that a private charity has been storing away all these years; unknown social workers trawling through the pages as and when they pleased. The ‘me’ that family knew about, but had then died before they felt able to impart to the older ‘me’. The ‘me’ that I never knew because I was too young to have memories. I do not know how to describe the experience of finally – almost exactly 65 years later – finding out ‘that’ which total strangers have known for years. It has devastated me.
So many things make sense now; deeply unpleasant sense. A ‘sense’ that is far, far, too late to alter.
It took me an entire day to read through that file, sitting beside my friend who, for the first time in some miserable years for her, was emerging to paint, to be the talented person she is, whilst I slipped into a maelstrom of miserable thoughts. I don’t know whether that black cloud will ever leave me now; it doesn’t feel as though it will. I cooked and cleaned throughout that week, laughing politely at jokes, admiring the brilliant painting that was emerging at her hands, angrily pulling weeds from the garden; willing myself to appear like a perfectly normal host. When the week was over, Mr G packed up our camper van and whistled me away to Spain to some favourite haunts. They all seemed grey and boring. That’s been my last fortnight – how was yours?
If I hadn’t been driven to write the truth about Duncroft, I should never have been aware of that file. Never have known that Barnardos had a ‘file’ on me. Never have sent for it. gone on living my Pollyanna life; ‘look forward, not back’ Miss Jones had told me. Christ that woman talked some sense! Now, having looked back, I feel unbridled anger – and an anger that has no outlet. The people I am angry with are either dead, or hiding behind anonymity.
Like the anonymous little shit, ex-Duncroft, or so ‘it’ claims, who wrote somewhere, I cannot be bothered to think where, that all Miss Jones did ‘was sit on her arse in her office, chain smoking’. No she didn’t. Certainly in my case, she must have spent hours writing letters on my behalf and answering other letters, all the time shielding me from a truth that she felt could add nothing to my future. I am as shocked at the amount of time and energy she expended on my behalf, as I was at the man hours that Surrey Police expended investigating the spurious claims of ‘child abuse’. I am angry beyond belief, angry to the point of feeling inclined towards personal violence; at the web of lies that have been conjured up by a small group of unhappy women who thought they had a ‘story’ that would net them some attention – and money. A story that has fed into the need for newspapers to show that they must be allowed to print what they like, post Leveson; that has fed into the need for some journalists to have a libel free ‘good story’; that has fed into the need for charities to grab an ever decreasing pool of money for wages and grandiose schemes; that has fed into a political need to unseat the present government in favour of one that creates dependency and victims; a need that has ruined the lives and happiness of endless families across Britain; a need that has led to me sending for my ‘file’ from Barnardos.
That is not all that has happened over the past fortnight. The day after that file arrived, I had a phone call; from Old Holborn. To tell me it wasn’t true that he had been arrested, allegedly for upsetting a delicate soul in Liverpool, under the ‘Malicious Communications Act’; but that it was true that this delicate soul had mobilised his on-line friends, who had tracked down Old Holborn’s wife, made so many offensive phone calls to her employers that she had been fired from her job, tried to do the same to him, made public death threats to him and his children, published his name and address and phone number, which resulted in hundreds, literally hundreds of phone calls threatening him with physical violence – and that these people had made the connection between him and I, since I was his election agent when he stood for parliament. It seems that he too was paying the price for free speech in Britain today. Apparently thinking (and saying) that Liverpool is overwhelmingly filled with self pitying, whinging drunks is a crime punishable by death. Whereas planning to burn someones house down in the middle of the night with their children inside is a perfectly normal and understandable reaction to someone saying something you don’t agree with.
What an utterly screwed up place Britain is today.
Then, a matter of hours afterwards, came the publication of the Royal Charter, which despite Leveson not having made any mention of bloggers, has miraculously included provision whereby bloggers either have to stump up the money to join in their bloody arbitration scheme, or find themselves in the position of having to defend, at their own cost, any and every allegation made by some disgruntled lowlife who doesn’t like what they have said, and pay the price even when they prove that what they have said is neither defamatory nor untrue. It is a charter for every work-shy, drunken, rabid left winger who wants to see a government back in power that will keep him in the comfort he thinks he deserves to penalise anyone who disagrees. Note please: any out there champing at the bit – you can penalise me with legal fees, even imprisonment, by taking this route – what you can’t do is take this blog down. I live in Europe. I can be ‘got at’ under the Royal Charter. This blog lives in the US, in order to take it down you will need the agreement of the US court that what is written on it is libelous under US law, not merely that it ‘offends’ you. Tough luck! Mr G is all for us moving to the US, just so that I can keep going, keep speaking out on the insanity that is the UK today. Can’t say I fancy it, but I am just angry enough to do so if I have to.
Speaking of imprisonment; I came home to a series of e-mails from journalists – the very same ones who declined to investigate the Savile claims with any ethical honesty. Whaddayaknow! Seems that the Court of Protection has secretly imprisoned a young woman called Wanda Maddocks for five months – for the crime of doing the very thing that brought me into contact with the court all those years ago and led to me working there – removing her relative from a nursing home where he was unhappy and taking him home with her to be looked after by her family. The cheeky buggers, who couldn’t possibly take the word of a mere blogger in the face of all the ‘evidence’ from the witless Savile ‘victims’, are suddenly overcome with a need to take the word of that mere blogger on the subject of the Court of Protection. Yay! They have read my ‘excellent writings on the subject’ and would like to quote me ‘as an authority’ on the matter. I did consider replying with a brief ‘fu*k off’, but decided that even those six letters was wear and tear on my typing fingers that I didn’t need to incur.
Is it worth the effort? Yes, but only because the fewer people around who are prepared to stand up for truth and honesty, the more important it becomes to so stand. Will I be one of the few left standing? I don’t know – a part of me feels that those living in a Britain where a woman can be secretly jailed for taking care of her father, or a man’s daughter terrorised by death threats over the phone because someone disagreed with his views, or a man hauled up to answer for his sexual history of 40 years ago on the word of anonymous witnesses who neither have to say when it occurred nor who they were, deserve the Britain that they live in – if for no other reason than they have sleep walked their way into that position. It feels as though the only people prepared to stand up and be counted in Britain are those upset that their benefits have been taken away – those who are losing their rights to free speech, open justice, fair trial, just meekly concur. Until it happens to them – then they busily write to the nearest blogger, not just I, for I know that others get streams of such letters – ‘will we publicise their case, they need help’.
So this blog will keep going, if only to annoy the 99% who are happy to see a totalitarian state, overflown by drones, jailing citizens for looking after their family, denouncing other citizens as paedophiles on the word of anonymous nitwits, terrorising the families of those who dare to speak out. It will keep going, supported by the 1% who take succour from the fact that they are not alone in their dissenting views.
I just wish I felt more like doing it right now. Still, tomorrow’s another day.
Pollyanna!
ps. My thanks to all those readers who have e-mailed me over the past fortnight, concerned for my health – yes, the cancer is still looming me over me, but funnily enough it has paled into insignificance, serving only to give me yet another reason to keep going whilst I can. If I had health, wealth, and happiness I might find better things to do.
May 8, 2013 at 11:21
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Here’s something to make you smile – Courtesy of ‘Anonymous’ on Moor’s blog
– ‘Satan Training Seminars’ for the Met’ Police in 2005, headed up by Spindler
of the yard no less ! Has to beat your run of the mill training session. Ok,
we haven’t done this for a while. How’s about more training for the Met’
police, anyone up for some inventive suggestions ? Ball rolling …
1.
‘Giving Victims of Victims a voice’ …….NEXT
- May 8, 2013 at 10:50
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@Moor Larkin re your addendum article from the New York Times – quite a
good assessment of Yewtree I would say. The only thing I would question was
the suggestion that allegations where 10 or more different people, unconnected
to each other etc made similar claims. Well, maybe that would be the case pre
internet days but not now as our Friends reunited chums have so ably
demonstrated. I also like the fact that she refers to ‘Mr’ Savile as opposed
to the disdainful ‘Savile’ that our lot have adopted !
- May 8, 2013 at 10:54
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What is especially annoying is that the myths of a 13 year-old from
Duncroft has made it across the Atlantic, and that Keri-Karen was born in
1958, so could not have been 14. I’m not sure if they have reveled more
about Rolf Harris than we have been told – a teenager at least is indicated,
although that covers from an 11 year-old to a 19 year-old….
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May 8, 2013 at 11:07
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@Moor – I had to laugh at Jim Davidson’s response to the historic
claims – “I don’t even know what wife I was with then” …..kinda sums up
the nonsense ….;)
- May 8, 2013 at 00:25
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While no offense is intended should the originator of the above post be
genuine, I should be careful about clicking too quickly on ‘learn how’, as,
FWIW, Norton Safesearch shows the related URL root as being an ‘untested’
website address, with its native language being Russian. Running that through
Google Translate shows a picture of what would appear to be an ensemble of
three, possibly classical, musicians. They bear no resemblance to Huey, Duey
and Louie, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are not related to
Mickey Mouse in some way.
- May 8, 2013 at 06:38
- May 7, 2013
at 11:18
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Isn’t the good old US of A where this glorification of victimhood comes
from? *puzzled*
- May 7,
2013 at 17:42
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If the person is truly a victim, then any reasonable person would have
some feeling for their predicament. If someone jumps up and down, claiming
to be a ‘victim’ without any proof whatsoever except their say-so, then I
quibble with the definition, and to my knowledge that is not the American
way, but it does seem to be the UK way lately. Just because someone says
that Jimmy Savile put his hand up their skirt doesn’t mean he did, and
without any further proof, let alone the character and possible motives of
the complainant I don’t consider them a victim. And if you’re talking about
the Duncroft lot, they have freely admitted they took money from newspapers
to ‘bravely come forward and tell their story.” Oh please, that’s not
exactly honest, is it?
I don’t know what the United States has to do with
this discussion anyway.
- May 7, 2013 at 18:01
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My guess on the US connection is that the inspiration behind lawyers
now encouraging almost everyone to claim monetary damages from anyone else
for any perceived personal harm, even if that can only be attributed to as
little, or as much, as just looking at them, is widely stereotyped,
however rightly or wrongly, as having emanated from the US. Allez McBile,
Notsob Bagle and Pudgy Judy and have a lot to answer for
- May
7, 2013 at 18:29
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As I work in the law here in the US, and have for at least 25 years,
let me assure you this is an antiquated view of American jurisprudence
when it comes to tort claims. No lawyer in their right mind wants to
take a tort case these days unless it is very solid. Too much work
involved trying to prosecute dodgy claims and they never work out
anyway. If British tort lawyers are now behaving like American lawyers
in the 1980s, more fool them. There is no basis in provable fact for
anyone to take on a case where the victim is suspect going in and the
alleged perpetrator is dead, unless they’re interested in taking what we
call ‘nuisance value’ for their trouble. And that’s what we call ‘chump
change’ here in the good old US of A.
- May 8, 2013 at 08:08
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It has long been a truism that what America does today, we will do
ten years later…….. We sometimes take a little longer, and our last
President did decide we needed a “Supreme Court”, so now we have one
of those….. :proud: …..
- May 8, 2013 at 10:26
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As an addendum, it is sometimes interesting to see yourself as
others see you, even if the NYT is being run by that bloke from the
BBC….
May 1, 2013
British Stars of Yesteryear Are Ensnared in Sexual
Offenses Inquiry
By SARAH LYALL
LONDON — The suspects include a
flamboyant pop star, a sharp-tongued comedian, a disc jockey known as
“the hairy cornflake” and a quirky Australian-born entertainer who
performed at the queen’s diamond jubilee concert. Most are in their
70s or 80s, and most are, or were, household names — celebrities from
a bygone era.
All have been caught up in what surely qualifies as one of the more
ambitious, and possibly quixotic, law enforcement investigations in
Britain in recent years: Operation Yewtree, a nationwide inquiry into
sexual offenses that may or may not have been committed decades ago.
In American terms, it is as if Captain Kangaroo, Dick Clark and Jerry
Lewis were suddenly being accused of committing sexual crimes dating
back 30 or 40 years.
Yewtree was formed in response to the disclosures last year that
the entertainer Jimmy Savile had been a serial sexual predator with
scores of victims, many of them under age, in an entertainment career
spanning four decades. The case, the authorities say, spurred hundreds
of people to come forward with their own accounts of being sexually
assaulted as teenagers — in some instances, they said, at the hands of
Savile-esque celebrities during a time when such men seemed to all but
help themselves to girls they came in contact with.
Stung by criticism that they failed to follow through on numerous
complaints against Mr. Savile, the police are now going out of their
way to appear receptive to even the most minor complaint, even ones
that are decades old. The operation involves at least 69 police
officers and staff members and has already cost more than $2.7
million, according to figures obtained by The Independent newspaper
through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The result has been a flurry of arrests, about a dozen involving
very public people. But even as women’s rights advocates and others
applaud a new era of openness, in which once-cowed victims feel able
to speak out, lawyers for the high-profile suspects say that in the
current climate, the accusers appear to be going out of their way to
opportunistically target celebrities. And, they say, many of the
accusations — of gropings, lewd behavior and drunken passes, as well
as sex that seemed consensual at the time — have more to do with the
anything-goes culture of the era than with any criminal behavior.
“It’s very easy to make a complaint, and it seems there are a lot
of people jumping on the bandwagon,” said a lawyer involved in one of
the cases, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity because
lawyers and prosecutors in Britain generally do not discuss pending
cases. “I’m not saying they’re not true or unfounded, but it’s very
easy to go back 30 years and make accusations — especially when
memories are hazy.”
England has no statute of limitations on serious crimes like rape
and murder, yet it is notoriously hard to obtain convictions for
sexual crimes, especially ones from years ago when no physical
evidence exists. In those cases, prosecutors say, they have been
looking for patterns — for instance, when a number of different women
who are strangers come forward with similar accounts of being attacked
by the same person.
“If there are a lot of unconnected allegations from people who
couldn’t have colluded, if 10 people come forward and there is no link
between them, it’s either a hell of a coincidence or each claim tends
to support the others,” said a prosecutor with knowledge of the
Yewtree investigation.
Of the dozen people arrested, two have been formally charged. One
is a former BBC driver, David Smith, who has been charged with five
counts of sexually assaulting and raping a 14-year-old boy in 1984.
The second is Max Clifford, Britain’s best-known celebrity publicist
and fixer, and a celebrity in his own right, the man that boldface
names hire when they want to sell a story or make one go away.
Mr. Clifford, who is 70, has been charged with 11 counts of
indecent assault in cases involving seven girls from 14 to 19 years
old between 1966 and 1985. He has denied doing anything wrong.
The other people caught in the Yewtree net have all been arrested,
a procedure that in Britain means that there is “reasonable suspicion”
that they are guilty. But they have not yet been formally charged, a
step that requires a higher burden of evidence. Suspects are often
arrested, released and then charged months later.
The names evoke entertainers of a certain time and a certain type,
and there has been a sense with each arrest of, who will be next?
They include the singer Gary Glitter, 68, who has a previous
conviction for downloading pornographic images of children and who has
been accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in Mr. Savile’s BBC
dressing room in the 1970s. Another suspect is a BBC game show host,
Jim Davidson, 59, who told reporters that two women had made
allegations against him dating back to the 1980s and that “I don’t
even know what wife I was with then.” (He has been married five
times.)
Also on the list is Freddie Starr, 70, a comedian and game show
host, who has been accused of groping a 14-year-old girl in Mr.
Savile’s BBC changing room in 1974 and who has said that he is
“totally innocent”; and Dave Lee Travis, 67, a disc jockey who for
some obscure reason is nicknamed “the hairy cornflake.”
Mr. Travis told reporters that the allegations against him have to
do with “squeezing the boobs of a couple of women” decades ago. He
said that there was no suggestion that children were involved and that
in the old days what he is alleged to have done would have been called
“putting your arms around someone and giving them a cuddle.”
One of the biggest names on the list is Rolf Harris, 83, an
Australian-born artist, singer and children’s television host who,
according to British newspaper reports, has been accused by a woman of
sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager. Mr. Harris, also
famous for his didgeridoo playing, performed for Queen Elizabeth II at
her jubilee last year. Channel 5 pulled his two television programs
off the air — “Olive the Ostrich” and “Rolf’s Animal Clinic,” which
was showing in repeats — pending the investigation.
Meanwhile, in an operation that is separate from Yewtree but that
reflects the current climate here, an 81-year-old actor was arrested
Wednesday and questioned in connection with allegations that he raped
a 15-year-old girl in 1967. The actor, Bill Roache, who since 1960 has
played Ken Barlow on the soap opera “Coronation Street,” has not been
charged.
Mark Williams-Thomas, a former detective who amassed much of the
evidence against Mr. Savile in a documentary that touched off the
scandal and police investigation last year, said that he has been
continuing to help the police in coaxing people who might have been
victimized years ago to come forward.
“People who felt that they were never going to get justice because
the person they were making the allegation against was so high profile
now have complete confidence to come forward,” he said in an
interview. “Savile lifted the lid on people who are considered
untouchable because of their celebrity status.”
- May 5, 2013 at 19:40
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The fact that you were brought up by Barnardos is no excuse for the nasty
unproven comments you have written about people in your blog. Bring on Leveson
it is for the good of the little man that people like you are brought to task
when you ruin lives with your Internet publicity you give to innocent people
who have not been found guilty of anything in a proper court of law. Shame on
you I am amazed at all the sheep that blindly follow you believing all your
trite. Bet this post does not make it you will delete it to maintain your sad
hero worship . A woman your age should know better and it is time that people
like you we’re actually stopped from liable by the possibility you may have to
dig in your sleazy pocket from your sad funds for calling innocent people.
- May 5,
2013 at 20:10
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John Smith – I would draw your attention to this sentence in your post.
“… innocent people who have not been found guilty of anything in a proper
court of law.” Goes for Jimmy Savile too, doesn’t it? He has not been found
guilty of anything in a court of law either, just in court of public
hysteria. Btw, Duncroft had nothing to do with Barnardo’s when we were
there, and nobody was ‘brought up’ at Duncroft, it was for three years only.
We were there in the 60s.
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May 5, 2013 at 20:31
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In all the time I have been following this blog I have not seen any
‘innocent’ person accused of anything. I resent your assertion that regular
commentators such as myself follow anyone ‘blindly’, I think that you are
trying to goad us good folk into some endless, pointless exchange – NO
THANKS !
- May
5, 2013 at 22:22
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I think “John Smith” has adequately proved that there is a pack of
people running around out there with several screws loose, not quite sure
what point they’re trying to make at all, and looking progressively
ridiculous. Of course, I’d bet good money that I know who this “person”
represents or actually is, and I bet the rest of you do as well.
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May 5, 2013 at 22:17
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@John smith
Not a very informative comment. Care to explain whose
lives Anna’s blog has ruined?
- May 6, 2013 at 06:59
- April 30, 2013 at 20:55
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Dear Ms Raccoon,
Very good to see you back, I feared you had gone for good. I have been for
some time a member of the silent majority but I want you to know how much I
appreciate and respect your efforts in speaking truth and honesty. Let me add
my voice to those expressing their support for you at this difficult time.
Also a mention for Mr G, whose example I would do well to follow.
- April 30, 2013 at 11:27
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I don’t really have bad moods, and in real life I am never personally
abusive, but I do tell the truth.
I think because I am not a writer like many around here are, it is easy to
get the wrong impression. I don’t comment here often because I always get a
sharp response, and I know I don’t do nuanced, precise prose. I still maintain
that you tar people with the same brush. The ‘done down’ Irish diaspora that
you refer to is just another example.
You are a good woman, a fine writer and I wish you well. The father who
looked at you through the window had no idea what he was letting go.
- April 30, 2013 at 10:15
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Anna, you can’t stand me. That’s okay, lot’s of people agree with you. But
you are pig-headed and you know that whatever happened while you were a
youngster is nothing to do with you and who you are today. At the risk of
annoying you even more, I would say that if your parents had kept you in the
family, not discounting the hurt of callousness, you would be a different
person.
Just think, you could be one of those needy folk from Liverpool, a
whinging, self-pitying drunk. Instead you are a very smart lady who has had a
different life. If you could find it within yourself to recognise that
labelling the citizens of Liverpool en masse is unsympathetic and a bit silly,
then you would be a happier person. You are still better than most and if I’ve
given you a hard time, it came from respect not hatred.
- April 30, 2013 at 10:29
- April 30, 2013 at 10:39
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“…and as we breathlessly approach the final whistle, a draw would seem to
be a fair result…………”
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April 29, 2013 at 18:00
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G’day Ms Raccoon,
So glad you’re back. I really did start worrying the
Lizards had done for us all. This is being written from the Deepest South
(Arkansas) in the USA, where I’m spending time with my ladyfriend. You know,
it’s a little like an old colonial enclave down here. Slow paced and all. But
not at all what you might expect. If you and the estimable Mr G really do
contemplate settling in the US, you need to think very carefully about just
where. But I don’t think you will get healthcare coverage. Pre-existing
complaint, you see. And if you think there’s a lot wrong with UK society you
would bust a gusset at conditions round there partss. You look after yourself.
You know you have built up a vast reputation among your admirers. And as for
the MSM badgering you for informed opinions, just use that old Russian
greeting. At least, I think it must be Russian. It ends in “off” anyway.
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April 29, 2013 at 14:23
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Anna, good to have you back, was worried ! Sorry things have been rough for
you, well done Mr. G for helping you through it.
- April 29, 2013 at 13:10
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Some few months ago I found a window in my house that I didn’t know existed
before —I came to learn it looked out on a pleasant field in Monbazzilac in
France. That in itself was not that remarkable but the Raccoon that chose to
live there was. Every morning for the last few months I would wake and look
out of the window and see what the Raccoon was up to. Sometimes I could see
the Racccoon just enjoying the place she had chosen to live and that made me
happy at the start of my day. Sometimes I would see the Raccoon chasing and
growling at nasty predatory and parasitic animals and that made me happy as
well but often made me laugh.I would cheer as she did that and on occassion
she even looked in my direction.The Raccoon had obviously known many such
creatures in her life and I detected humour and practiced elegance as she
toyed with them before chasing them off Sometimes I watched the Racccoon
cleverly lift a heavy stone and underneath there was all manner of nasty
creatures that would unexpectedly crawl out from under it.What a clever
creature I thought. Most of all though I liked the Raccoon best when she was
just herself. She had many scars that spoke of a life that had been led but
not chosen —a life of freedom obtained but not at little cost. This Raccoon
was clearly still in her prime possessing the wisdom decency and nobility that
creatures that are born free and live free all their lives need to survive.
Watching that Raccoon I found started and ended my day well —put me in the
right frame of mind
More than a week ago I looked out of the window but the
Raccoon had gone —–a few more days passed and still the Raccoon didn’t appear
and I started to get a little worried —I knew the Raccoon was too street wise
to have been hit by a car —-too clever for the hunters —-so what could it
be?
Well I spotted the Raccoon this morning —still the same magnificent
creature —-but I could see an old wound had been troubling her and that was
why she hadn’t been around—she didn’t appear quite as quick on her feet or
have the spring in her step that I always recognised in her —–did I detect she
might be doubtful she really was the magnifiently clever creature she was?
Well possibly but I have seen her looking after that wound before and its just
temporary is my best guess.Whats important though is she is back!!!
And as
always when I look through my window I learn something from the Raccoon —so
sausage sandwiches are the prefered fare for Raccoons when they aren’t feeling
so good. Eminently sensible —a week or so of sausage sandwiches I reckon and
those preditory and parasitic animals will realise its just a few days respite
and nothing more.
Time for me to personalise this particular Raccoon since
she is distinguishable from the generality –. No longer Ms Raccoon to me –Anna
the uber Racccoon seems to suit well so unless she takes offence Anna for
short it will be in future.
- April 29, 2013 at 11:28
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Did Freddie Starr ‘out’ himself as the man Harry Carry Keri Karin was
banging on about in Jim’s dressing room ?? I note he spoke to the papers just
4 days after Exposure ……he also mentions the injunction …..??
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April 29, 2013 at 11:48
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Ooops – I should correct that last comment – it is misleading – Mr Starr
DID NOT ‘out’ himself he merely denied being one of the men Karin was
describing – oh dear – apologies !!
- April 29, 2013 at 10:55
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Quote fellow victim, Anna, rightly angry but wrong on one BIG point: ” It
is a charter for every work-shy, drunken, rabid left winger who wants to see a
government back in power…” Left wing – WTF ?!
Quote the 19hateys anti-Social Fraud Market, Murdochized bent-Media
raving-Right/Wrong-un, late ‘GRATE’ Grantham Hag, paraphrased:
” My greatest achievment ? New Labour ! ”
The rightly angry Raccoon should put the responsibility where it ‘Rightly’
fits. With 19Hateys anti-Social engineering, ongoing raving-Right/Wrong-uns,
bent-BIG City workshy drugged-up spivs, bent BIG drunken banksters, bent
90%-Right wing drunk on power media ruled by NON-Brit, UNelected,
UNdeselectable, tax-dodging, multi-billionaire Monster Murdoch’s best selling
SUNazi; plus raving-Right/Wrong-uns Daily Malice et al.
A mere 13 yrs of Murdoch-pawns, NuLab=Olde Tory ?
SQUAT compared to: 1) 38 yrs of anti-Social raving-Right/Wrong-uns &
bent-media since 1950; 2) Including mismanaging 60 yrs of mid-east conflicts;
3) Causing mid-1970s Oil Cris, deep recesession and IMF swamp; 4) While by ’81
the got-lucky Hag had £400 billion of UK/N. Sea Oil & Gas onstream; 5)
Pirate-ised selling everything off, including non-Brit buyers causing a don’t
care Healthcare, and Brit souls made slaves to the highest Anti-Social
Services/ASS – BIG bidders.
Learned Left facts x 5 and counting !
Check the CONveniently left-out, learned-Leftover facts, then join dots,
and Wize Up !
- April 29, 2013 at 11:16
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@HomeTruths
What makes you think Murdoch is of “the Right”? He’s an Aussie with a
long-standing, almost generational detestation of the traditional British
Establishment. I suspect that after being custard-pied in Parliament he just
hates the British like a old-time Boston Irishman used to…….
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April 29, 2013 at 22:15
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Moor, like that Othello fellow ?
Instant grist to today’s Daily Rolling Right-Wing Drivel, a mill
revolving around central characters with varied and current themes of
racism, love, jealousy, and betrayal.
Our press/media is not an ‘idelogy’, but a BIG BIZness for greed,
ratings and profit by whatever sells ‘a good story’.
And BIG BIZness is always raving-Right, not Learned Left.
What won’t be swallowed by the infantalized, spoonfed, shallow ignorant
masses, won’t get aired.
If the unelected, undeselectable tax-dodging, multi-billionaire
Non-Brit ‘New Monarch’ raving-Right/Wrong-un Rupe-for-the-rope has one
rote for his vastly overpaid whore-hacks it might well be: ” Fuck The
Facts, Rig The Fucking Story!”
Oh, and as Anna so ‘rightly’ notes ALWAYS leave out what we don’t want
known, or won’t be swallowed by the brainwashed infantalised SIMS/Shallow
Ignorant Masses.
Misquote Olivia Neutron Bomb, “Lets’ get cynical, cynical.”
- April 29, 2013 at 23:09
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You can see why he came to detest the BBC, as Dimblebey has a pop at
him….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M44Bixi9KM
- April 29, 2013 at 09:32
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Bloody Hell woman! You can’t just stop with Sausage Sandwich. Was it white
bread? Lightly covered with butter? Brown or Red sauce? Come on out with it.
After all, this blog is known for its attention to detail.
- April
29, 2013 at 11:12
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Very true, Saul, but don’t forget our beloved landlady makes Scheherezade
look like an amateur when it comes to leaving her readers wanting more…
- April 29, 2013 at 11:24
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Size is not important Saul – it is what you do with the sausage that
matters. To eat or not to eat? That is the question.
- April 29, 2013 at 11:34
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Exactly! As we have previous on the Sausage front, I can assure you
that size is important.
- April 30, 2013 at 12:43
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Butter on a sausage sandwich is invariably a sign of the uncouth, the
ne’er-do-well, the rogue.
- April 30, 2013 at 12:50
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It comes as somewhat of a relief to be a Flora user, then.
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April 29, 2013 at 08:53
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Anna,
Glad to see you back in the corner of the snug. Remember, there are good
people in the world like Mrs Jones, they just make less noise than the
opposite lot.
- April 29, 2013 at 08:11
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Just adding to what is said above. Missed your writing: worried about the
why of your absence. I am very glad indeed to read you again, despite the
misery you reflect above and I sincerely hope that you are able to recover at
least some of your joie de vivre. I trust that you take some comfort from the
range of good wishes contained in all these comments.
- April 29,
2013 at 05:55
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“What an utterly screwed up place Britain is today.”
Amen! (sadly).
It’s good to have you back. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
- April 28, 2013 at 22:56
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Here folks this’ll make you smile – Mr Starr certainly has a way with
words……
- April 29, 2013 at 10:24
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Lyn Barber did an interview with him in the Eighties and took the view
that his opinions on what should happen to “child molesters” was almost
criminal,
“Anyone who hurts children or rapes a woman should be
castrated…… ”
http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/big-girls-dont-cry.html
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April 29, 2013 at 11:21
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Ha Ha Moor – I must re read Lyn Barber’s wee book – Well done for
highlighting the piece where she tours the wards of Stoke Mandeville with
Jimmy and he jokes with paitients about having his wicked way with them –
well, that’s what she called it back then A JOKE …..Onwards Mr Larkin
……;)M
- April 28, 2013 at 22:38
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I understand your heartache, Anna, our toxic parents continue to affect us
from beyond the grave. Welcome back.
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April 28, 2013 at 22:35
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It’s good to have you back Anna. I was beginning to worry about you.
Welcome back. Remember you’re appreciated.
- April 28, 2013 at 21:52
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Delighted to see you back – such a shame about all the unpleasant things
reappearing:- thank God you have Mr G – who sounds quite an amazing character.
More power to your elbow as a voice of sanity and reason regarding the
maelstrom-in-a-cesspit that Britain is rapidly becoming/has become under the
auspices of the trendy left – Stalin’s “useful idiots” of course – in their
smug self-proclaimed superiority.
These apparatchiks need reminding that the state exists to serve us – most
definitely NOT the other way round. In their own interests, of course, we
plebeians are not to be permitted to have anything that goes “Bang” – so we
might, in time, have to make do with things with pointy ends…
- April 28, 2013 at 21:43
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I am so glad to see you back, I was really worried. Finding out about your
parents must have been a terrible shock but be proud you have come through all
your travails as a strong, confident person who has handled everything life
has thrown at you and are much admired by your many followers. I am horrified
at what has happened to my country and just cannot understand why so many just
seem to accept it. I can only hope one day we get pushed too far and bring the
whole rotten system crashing down. I am not too worried about myself but
deeply fear for my children and grandchildren who will never know the freedon
we did unless there are some drastic changes.
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April 28, 2013 at 20:56
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Dearest Anna
Crikey! All the very best, pet. And bravo to Mr G and his sausage & tea
serving abilities – we could all do with one of him, hee hee!
KBO
DtP
- April 28, 2013 at 20:36
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Dear Anna:
I have fretted over your blog, wondering if some evil had befallen you, or
if you had gone ‘off somewhere’ under the strict supervision of Mr. G (who
sounds like the sort of caring guy we all aspire to be). I am very relieved to
find that you are, to all intents and purposes still in one piece, though
fragile.
So… let us get this in perspective. Your past has come back to haunt you
and you finally get to find out that you had one all the time…
It is a fact that you had a past. Everyone has.
Yours sounds far more difficult than the average and resulted in the added
disadvantage of ending up under the ‘care’ of Social Services.
Two questions:
1. Where, in all this, is there any suggestion that you were in any way to
blame for what happened to you? In your case, nowhere.
2. Where, in all this is there any suggestion that you used what happened
to you as an excuse to do nothing with the rest of your life, be a ‘victim’,
rely on the state for everything, accept every hand out imaginable and then
some. Again, in your case, nowhere.
You went on to do good. Plenty of good. You are still doing good and the
world is a better place for your blog, I believe. You simply do not fall into
the same category or class of person who are presently engaged in trying to
extract something from the Savile row.
Miss Jones was right. Look forward, not back and remember: ‘…Forgo your
anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble.’
– Chinese
proverb
- April 28, 2013 at 20:34
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I too have missed your blog, looking daily for more of your excellent
writings. What you say of the file tells me how painful life was back in the
60′s for those who were never allowed a voice and little seems to have
changed. Yet another entertainer is under suspicion for historic sexual abuse
and Mark Williams Thomas has now resorted to trawling for ‘victims’ to contact
him by way of twitter. I fear for any male entertainer who has so much as
written an autograph to someone. Could this be used as evidence?
When a
family member wants to care for a parent, which would be far cheaper than a
care home even with care support, is sent to prison without a fair trial or
with the benefit of an advocate, just shows how very dangerous this country
is. I feel sure that this was only reported on to give the press some point to
prove in their gripe with the Leveson report. haven’t heard any comment from
any member of the Government on this matter who may well just want the whole
sorry story to go away.
This indeed is a country in dire need of some
honesty.
It will take a very long time for you to digest the Barnardo’s
report and many of your questions will never be answered. I don’t know your
background well but I think you will recover and survive as is your nature. I
wish you well.
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April 28, 2013 at 19:41
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Dear Anna, I hope you’re ok. Please know that a great number of people read
your writings and care a lot about you and what you have to say.
Your voice is more necessary than ever. Take care.
- April 28, 2013 at 19:36
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Oh thank goodness you are back, I was beginning to fear the worst had
happened to the author of my first and favourite blogsite. Delighted to see
that you are now spitting nails and on top writing form. I’m sure we all agree
with your sentiments about how the UK has sunk to its lowest. Some of us, and
possibly a greater number than you think, are trying to do something about it.
In my case I am standing for UKIP at County level – not too much else a
septuagenarian can do, I’m afraid.
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April 28, 2013 at 21:32
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A&T A – The very best of fortune with your forthcoming election day,
if I had a vote there, you’d have it. You may be ancient and/or tattered,
but the spirit is still there and we need that right now.
- April 28, 2013 at 19:35
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As the others have said: Welcome back. I’m saddened by your story, I hope
you haave the strength to carry on with your struggles. I missed your wisdom,
we need more like you.
- April 28, 2013 at 18:49
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As I said earlier on Moor’s blog – Ms Raccoon is back hurrah !
- April 28, 2013 at 18:26
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A relief to see you back landlady. Sorry that the interruption was so
personal and disturbing, but I echo the comments of those who wish you well. A
Norwegian gentleman told me that during the war, the thought that Britain was
still free gave them strength and hope that all was not lost. You do much the
same. There are still good people in this once great country who value honour
and courage such as you have repeatedly shown. They will look to you and a few
others to keep the flame alight
- April 28,
2013 at 18:25
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Btw. Anna, re. the 70sDuncroft blog, that’s actually one person talking to
themselves mostly. Moor or rabbit noted that the posts were being made very
close together, let alone the actual ‘writing’ style is almost identical. Note
the use of the phrase “many of us” always used by ‘different’ posters. I had a
little bit of fun, responding to the posts over there but using my own blog to
do so. Don’t know if you’ve checked over there lately! You’ll see a reference
to Sister Consolata, who actually took over running Duncroft when MJ retired.
She was appointed by Barnardo’s and ran the school without any problems for
quite a few years thereafter, until it closed down and the developers took
over. I think she is still living as well.
- April 28, 2013 at 18:25
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I am as glad to see you blogging again as I was the day I first found your
blog.
Coincidentally, I bought the Daily Mail the other day and found the
Maddocks story utterly baffling. The Press can do so much good when it does
proper journalism. The strange case adds to my conviction that secrecy is
never a good thing, as your own secret files seem to have revealed.
Privacy and the expectation that one’s home can be one’s castle on the
other hand, are Civil Rights I would believe in, and the dreadful tale of the
other blogger emphasises the consequences when people with no civility and too
many Rights are allowed to prevail.
- April 29,
2013 at 05:58
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“The Press can do so much good when it does proper
journalism.”
Sadly, it doesn’t do it often enough…
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April 28, 2013 at 18:23
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Really good to see you back. You are brilliant. So sorry for all that you
have been through from childhood, but perhaps you would not be such an
astonishingly insightful writer if you had not had such experiences. I hope
that is of some comfort to you, because what you write is of huge benefit to
many, and the many need you.
- April 28, 2013 at 18:18
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Hello, First time poster, long time lurker. I thought with all this talk of
finding out about the history of portrayal you might want to have a look at
the following article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316045/Prostitutes-daughter-wins-20-000-payout-suing-social-services-taking-care–claiming-mother-beat-starved-neglected-her.html
Interesting.
- April 28,
2013 at 17:46
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When I got my Barnardo’s file I spent a week or so being very angry at the
lies and misrepresentations I discovered. Things I had never done, things that
never happened to me, social workers who I never saw filing reports on me,
outings I had allegedly gone on which never occurred, very odd reports about
my mother living in a dirty, disorganized house (not so – we had a daily)
stumbling about in slacks and clutching a glass of some sort of alcohol. I was
also described as tall, with dyed chestnut hair – er, no, that would be my
mother, not me, and various other very odd reports. Mixed in there were some
grains of truth and stuff I didn’t know about but which made sense in
hindsight, i.e. attempts on the part of my mother to get me out of Duncroft
and committed to Maudsley, which was summarily headed off by Margaret Jones
and Pamela Mason, the psychiatrist. This was so my mother and her boyfriend
could get their hands on my trust monies and real estate. There was no mention
at all of the barricade of the junior common room, except in a letter I sent
home to my mother, and a there was a letter from a boy I knew (and still do),
which he denies ever sending to me, address supplied by another of my friends
(still in touch) who says she did not give the boy the address and furthermore
she had no idea where I even was. My Barnardo’s social worker told me that in
those days the reports tended to be very negative, whereas nowadays reporting
has to be be fair and balanced, so I wouldn’t be too angry or negative about
any of it. I found out, much as I suspected all along, that I shouldn’t have
been there, but my mother misrepresented things to my probation officer, and
so I ended up at Duncroft.
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April 28, 2013 at 20:02
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Mewsical
If a social worker has given you the impression that their reports are
fair and balanced nowadays they are giving you ‘the blarney’. Those having
to ‘defend’ themselves in CoP or Family courts from ‘evidence’ from social
workers’ reports will give you a picture that is no different to the awful
situation in your time. The difference is that social workers now have more
kudos and power to lie / fabricate/ embellish to get outcomes to reach
‘targets’ for their bosses. Quite often if a case is lost in court their
bosses will ask them to rewrite a report to be able to overturn the decision
at an appeal. Rein Change.
- April
28, 2013 at 20:20
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I think that’s what happened in my situation. Various individuals were
asked to provide their opinion on something that didn’t happen, so those
opinions could be submitted to the court to make sure I was sent away.
However, not a one of them was a social worker, I never saw a social
worker, yet while I was at Duncroft a social worker with the name Mary
Hebron was busy making a bunch of reports using exactly what as her source
of information I have no idea. I do remember one thing that Margaret Jones
said to me, “You don’t belong at Duncroft, Sally, but your mother
certainly does!” That stuck with me, and I believe she was right. Most of
us had peculiar parents, which was why we were on care and protection
orders to begin with.
- April 28, 2013 at 17:37
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Welcome back. Was worried for you.
- April 28, 2013 at 16:55
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Good to see you back Anna, was missing the only place to come to hear
common sense and truth, when we live in a country where free speech is only
what you’re expected to adhere to it’s always refreshing to read what free
speech and honesty is truly about. You are one inspirational woman and when
you look back on your life to the events and tribulations that you have
overcome, just remember that it is those that have made you into the strong,
honest and courageous woman that you are today. It’s true what they say ‘what
doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger’, stay strong and I hope that one day
you come to realise that the past is there for a reason, to learn from and
live for the future. Take care x
- April 28, 2013 at 16:31
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Great to see you back, Anna. and bravo for steadfastly soldiering on.
You’re correct that it is soul destroying to see so many people happy to let
their freedoms fly down the drain but it’s also correct to keep trying to
highlight it and wait hopefully for a tipping point. Something will surely
make the public wake up soon, or else the country will be as dead as it
appeared in the late 70s, but this time for good.
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April 28, 2013 at 16:18
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Good to see you back.
- April 28, 2013 at 16:14
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Did wonder where you were. Sorry to hear that you have had such a torrid
time but very pleased that you intend to keep on going.
- April 28, 2013 at 15:44
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Little is ever as it seems on the surface, and I’m really so sorry that
you’ve had more heartaches than would seem to be your fair share. I think it
was Solomon who advised that it was good not to let the sun go down on one’s
wrath. Easy to say, much less simple to do, even when it is readily possible,
but it does make the coming morning a bit more palatable. Tomorrow is then
always a new beginning……
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April 28, 2013 at 15:38
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Reading your blog is a very humiliating experience. Unlike you, I have had
a very comfortable upbringing and general life – the worst I suffered was my
father’s ire when I wanted to be picked up from extra-curricula team training
after school – good grief, but the buses were still running (albeit less
frequently)!
What set-backs I have had have been relatively minor – a car-crash, a fire,
and a medical emergency – all quite easily surmounted; none with any
long-lasting effects – even my burns are barely noticeable. I sit here, in my
comfort, and seethe at the blatant injustice, at the strides to an oppressive,
totalitarian state that we are being led by the nose to, feeling impotent in
my rage. Then you pop up, and show that there are others who can and do fight
for us, and fight hard against all odds. Actually, that makes me feel even
more useless; the most I have done is join UKIP… like… wow! At least I can
offer to be a spear carrier in your army of the disaffected.
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April 28, 2013 at 15:08
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Anna in removing my ‘mistakes’ posting you missed out the key bits.
Anna- the greatest gift to humanity is courage and you have this in
buckets. You and others here have sadly come to know that those entrusted with
our welfare often have less than savoury ulterior motives for their actions-
care is not their motive. Those who truly care will delve and face what they
find, to act if necessary.
Pity the Court of Protection / Family Courts do not either care or look
more forensically at records held / provided to them and make judgements on
the motives and actions of those who merely profess to care.
- April 28, 2013 at 15:13
- April 28, 2013 at 14:33
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Welcome back, you have been missed…
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April 28, 2013 at 14:18
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I was absolutely devastated when I read my Barnado’s file at all the lies
my mother told about me. I was also surprised when I read all the letters that
had been withheld – difficult to see why some of them were withheld. What
surprised me the most however was some of the letters from my social worker
and how she had even asked to be reimbursed when she sent me a “small gift”. I
actually stayed with her when I was first released from Duncroft – wonder how
much she was charging for that in view of the fact that there are copy letters
from Duncroft to my local authority enclosing “maintenance accounts”!
- April 28, 2013 at 14:33
- April 28, 2013 at 14:12
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Relieved. The Interweb has been a pretty empty place this past couple of
weeks, giving some flavour of how it could be if other powers ever had their
way.
Whatever was in that file is not the person you are, or the role you have –
glasses are raised in the Snug to those. Glad you’re back, Anna.
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April 28, 2013 at 14:14
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Hear, hear…
- April 28, 2013 at 14:05
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“Write from the heart – and f**k ‘em all.”
I heartily agree. Let your words burn Anna. Let them burn the dishonest,
the endless public parade of whining lying media whores/ Let your true words
thunder and rage against what is untrue. Hell, you’re only a blogger (Although
a damned fine one). What can they do? No-one of any import listens to us
anyway in our ‘opinionated’ ragings against the machine.
Whatever you were in those Barnado files is not who you are now. It’s only
someone else’s opinion anyway. Find whatever redemption you need in sticking
up for what’s right. Claim and clasp it to yourself as armour against the
unworthy. And if all else fails; cite Arkell vs Pressdram. Remember, the
Leveson game is a rigged casino, so don’t play.
Glad to hear you’re all right, cancer notwithstanding. As always, my best
regards to you and Mr G and the rest of the denizens.
Bill
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April 28, 2013 at 13:30
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Retyped error in my post:
I may not engage with all that is posted here, because as with ‘Wanda’ some
things take precedence.
I too have lived long enough to see how undemocratic, and unlike the
significant country it once was in the world, Britain has been reduced to mere
‘rubble’ both in terms of its politics, power seeking public servants and in
terms of its place in the world hierarchy.
If no one speaks out or takes a risk to awaken others- to at least think,
if not agree- then life becomes no more than in Huxley’s Brave New World- we
are all on soma- but not happy.
REPLY
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April 28, 2013 at 13:26
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Dear Anna
To have courage is the greatest gift to humanity we can bring. You show
this well. I may not engage with all that is posted here, because link ‘Wanda’
some things take precdence.
I too have lived long enough to see how undemocratic and unlike the
significant country it once was in the world Britain has been reduced to mere
‘rubble’ both in terms of its politics and power seeking public servants and
in terms of its place in the world. If no one speaks out or takes a risk to
awaken others- to at least think, if not agree, then life becomes no more than
Huxley’s Brave New World- we are all on soma- but not happy.
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April 28, 2013 at 13:24
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DG – it seems to me that you are (to paraphrase) “quartered safe out
there…”.
- April 28, 2013 at 13:23
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Sorry to hear you’ve been shaken up by this file. I know that what’s been
seen cannot be unseen, but all of the previous advice about it not saying
anything about you or the person you’ve become is very wise. Chin up, matey.
xxx
- April 28, 2013 at 13:21
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Glad you are feeling up to writing again. Really sorry about all the bad
stuff. You probably won’t want some nerdy, life-inexperienced single mum of a
geek like me commenting on your travails but for what it is worth, you have
led an extraordinary life, achieved many good things each of which on their
own I would be proud to call my single life’s achievemment.
E.g.
Your fascinating business ventures: Tea rooms, B&B, boat hire, I think
you once wrote about doing some textile importing from India or somewhere,
Your legal work: the stories about your Court of Protection work imply you
are someone who has delivered more than the avergae person’s worth of good
deeds to others,
Your survival instincts and humanity: Your storiesof life on the 1960s and
70s, the fact that you survived an adolesence being moved to many different
homes, being scrutinised and pursued by the various authorities like the
police, and other arms ofthe government.
Your causes: Freeing Nick Hogan, That (ungrateful) dinner lady, Being Old
Holborn’s agent (probably needed a bravery medal for that
)
Your blog: ’nuff said
Blimey.
Seriously, take a loftier perspective. Be very, very, extremely jolly well
proud of yourself woman. Your early childhood was another country that you had
no control over. It is not you. Your life after the age of 17 or so is YOU.
Enjoy your life and be proud of your many good accomplishments, especially
your writings.
- April 28, 2013 at 13:25
- April 28, 2013 at 13:11
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Nice to have you back.
I thought this nonsensical press arbitration scheme did not apply to
individual bloggers?
(I vaguely recall Guido commenting to this effect?)
M
- April 28, 2013 at 13:15
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It’s not obligatory for bloggers – but if you’re not in it, then you
can’t get back your defence costs if some twat decides to take you to court
– even if you win.
Heads they win, tails you lose. Nice.
Fortunately,
with my background, I am quite capable of defending myself – but they do
say, the lawyer who defends themselves has a fool for a client…..
- April 28, 2013 at 15:37
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Ah, well, it’s not that bad. See, for example, here. It may not be
‘right’ but at least it is more positive than somethings we have seen.
- April 28, 2013 at
16:07
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Thank you for that Surreptitious! Maybe refusing to carry advertising
might be my saving grace? It makes no difference anyway, I am determined
to carry on. It’s the ‘f**k ‘em’ principle.
- April 29, 2013 at 20:24
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Like, I guess, everyone of your readers, Anna, I linked to “here”
and the table superficially appears OK,
….but in the “Key”box,
there would appear to be two weasel possibilities.
First, the
phrase “probably not a relevant publisher”
Second, the phrase
“based on your answers”.
Am I wrong in thinking that these two
phrases, taken either singly or together,
would provide plenty of
scope for a malign prosecutor?
Third thing, what a curious beast
this Department of Culture, Media & Sport must be!
Normally one
would associate Culture & Sport, as being
distractions,
designed to distract the voter’s attention from what
might be weighty matters of the day.
Whereas Media, presumably
including news & blogs,
should serve to focus the voter’s
attention on weighty matters of the day.
Curious, that.
- April 28, 2013 at 12:43
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Blimey Anna – there was some serious seethe in that post.
Perhaps Mr G is right. Writing can be a good way of marshalling thoughts
and rationalising things. It might be wise to pause before hitting the
‘publish’ button while you’re still raging, though. Once it’s on the net, it
can’t be deleted.
I’m very glad you’re still with us. I’m glad you’re expressing the
generally decent approach to humanity that I think most people (the silent
majority) take. It’s only a small minority who think it clever to ring up
someone they’ve never met (like OH) and make stupid threats, most of which
they wouldn’t have the gumption to carry out anyway; they wouldn’t have the
brains to realise how much distress they cause, but they’d be the first to
whinge like babies if it happened to them. They’re scum, but they cause
problems way beyond their worth. Guido did suggest that the Police were ‘very
interested’ is some of the threats directed at OH, so let’s see if anything
transpires.
Keep going Anna, we need you to express what we don’t have the ability to;
but be very careful of the ‘publish’ button!
- April 28, 2013 at 12:38
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Glad you are back. Sorry that you have had to suffer whatever shit was in
that file. Sometimes ignorance is indeed bliss.
But whatever you discovered, none of it is about you. You are about what
you have done with & for yourself, not what other people did to you or on
your behalf when you had no control or knowledge.
Whatever it is, try to leave it in the past. Don’t let it taint what you
have become.
- April 28, 2013 at 12:46
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I’ll second that. You’re a far better person than petty bureaucrats will
ever be.
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April 28, 2013 at 18:21
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Hear! Hear! all power to your elbow and typing fingers!
- April
28, 2013 at 13:00
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Seconded!
Your unexpected silence on the COP matter had me worried; I’m very
relieved indeed to hear that you are still in circulation and hope you
recover your equilibrium soon. Remember, the Raccoon Arms is packed with
noisy regulars who wish you well.
- April 28, 2013 at 13:16
- April 28,
2013 at 12:33
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all good then….
- April 28, 2013 at 12:32
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This reader is also glad you’re back in circulation, and thanks you for
sharing your frustrations.
- April 28, 2013 at 12:28
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Dear Anna
I was actually getting worried that David Icke had taken you
and the website over!
I know it is hackneyed beyond belief, but keep hold of ‘All that is
required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’
Keep at it
Mike
- April 28, 2013 at 12:15
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Glad to see you’re back, the very best to you Anna. By the way, Mr. Big
used that image for the cover of their classic album “Lean Into It”. Who can
forget that guitar solo being played with cordless drills…
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April 28, 2013 at 12:15
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Dear M/s Raccoon, I am so relieved you are OK, have followed you blog for
several years, do not have a way with words to comment.
- April 28, 2013 at 12:16
- April 28, 2013 at 11:51
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Glad you’re ok though! Figured you were having a break / batteries
recharged after an insane few months
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