Speaking as someone who has been involved in picking up the pieces after cases of child abuse, there are many emotions felt by the abused and those who love and care for them ... anger, vindication, deep sorrow are just some ... I can assure you that no one I've worked with and talked stuff through with has ever said that anything about it, not even the the guilty verdict and sentencing, has made them feel 'cheerful'.
The way this is being reported and discussed in much of the media has a lot in common with the commodification and glamourisation of sexual activity that contributes to abuse in the first place. It stinks.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My reason TBC is my winter flowering honeysuckle which has just burst into flower. It looks as if dozens of tiny cream butterflies have landed on it. It smells wonderful as I walk past.
There’s still nothing cheerful about child abuse … someone has done the right thing … that is undoubtedly good, but there’s nothing cheery about any of it.
I'm cheerful that a guilty party has been found guilty and will spend a long time in jail, despite their wealth, "power" army of lawers etc. Hopefully others in the same position will realise they'll be hunted, and punished if found guilty.
My reason TBC is my winter flowering honeysuckle which has just burst into flower. It looks as if dozens of tiny cream butterflies have landed on it. It smells wonderful as I walk past.
Aren't they wonderful Joyce? Ours has been flowering for a few weeks now. I recall the first time we ever smelled one (in a park in Chester) and our search for what the heck was giving off that gorgeous smell in the middle of winter.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I've mentioned my friend with the monkey puzzle tree and the pieces of log that she gave me last year when grey oyster mushrooms grew from it after it had been felled. I reported earlier that this year my pieces have the fungi growing on them. I had lunch with her today and she brought me another huge chunk that is covered in the mycelium and some mushrooms. Oh joy, I'll soon have my own little grey oyster farm. Plus I've been invited to hers on Sunday to get some mycelium and I'm going to transfer it to logs in the woodland area in the hope I can start my own off. Pictures will be taken so that I can show you what I'm talking about.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
During his infamous interview he claimed that he never sweats.
The way this is being reported and discussed in much of the media has a lot in common with the commodification and glamourisation of sexual activity that contributes to abuse in the first place. It stinks.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hopefully others in the same position will realise they'll be hunted, and punished if found guilty.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
There'll probably be some 'men in black' already poised to stop any evidence coming to light. Can't have the monarchy shown in a bad light can we?
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Plus I've been invited to hers on Sunday to get some mycelium and I'm going to transfer it to logs in the woodland area in the hope I can start my own off.
Pictures will be taken so that I can show you what I'm talking about.