by injecting him with his own faeces!!!!
Yep - another one that makes you say 'WTF?!?!?!'
There are no reports on the toddler - but as the report says this was an 'attempt' - then we can all but pray that he is recovering and will be cared for by people who love him more than themselves and that the mother also gets help for Munchhausens so that she cannot do this again.
http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/04/23/mom-injects-baby-with-feces-to-kill-him/
Okay - so to be fair I was not expecting any part of this to be easy.
I guess like many in beginning a novel I had not realised the amount of work that is entailed just in prep.
I enjoy reading - I devour books.
I have done book reviews and been very honoured by a couple of authors asking me to write reviews.
I have dabbled in little bits of writing for myself - a lot for friends and patients, articles now and again, short stories (but not for a while).
I have enjoyed dabbling in writing since being a child and therefore like many have always had that dream of becoming published author.
So - as mentioned in my previous entry - in being approached by a published author I was gobsmacked - a change of pace and genre for him and a chance for me to unleash my 'talent'!
Then the work begins - and in a totally different way to anything I had done before - after all - this is for a novel!
I did some research - talked with my co-author - did more research and then it hit me just how much work all those authors I read have to put in before even beginning writing.
So - in knowing the story line - which has of course been refined a few times, realising the importance of character profiles, creating those characters so that I can work with them and know them thoroughly, refining the storyline yet again, still devouring books for pleasure and actually getting some basics on paper - I was beginning to feel at times like a Zippo without the flint - just through sheer admiration of what authors actually go through.
I had good feedback from a friend who actually made me think about a couple of things in a different way. I cannot even begin to say how helpful it is to have someone to bounce ideas off - someone you know will be honest and question things if needs be.
I had good feedback from my co-author - who said I obviously knew what I was doing and although flattered, I was also very much in the, 'huh? I have not got a clue - I am going with what I feel!' frame of mind and also realising that I am still a little nervous too.
But amidst the nerves is that excitement of my storyline and idea, my characters - naming them was a joy I tell ya and then researching to make sure the names were not too close to any in use especially in the same genre - their profiles - my blurb - and the prologue and first chapters were deemed as more than good enough.
The word synopsis came up and hell - I have been working on that and I can now understand why a lot of authors call it 'the dreaded synopsis'.
I know I still have bits of research to do throughout - things that keep popping up as the story progresses.
I know I will be refining things and doing at least another 2 or 3 rewrites.
I know I will probably get turned down by a lot of agencies and publishers before finding the right one - I may hit lucky with the first one but I am not pinning my hopes on anything other than hard work on promoting it too.
The one thing that overrides all of the hard work - half of which is not covered here as I do not have the experience yet - is the buzz!!! It is truly exhilarating. The 'weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' feeling when you know you have written something that is just right - well I am not going to say it is better than sex - but you get what I mean!
It is my little world I can create and hopefully bring some enjoyable reading to others and be able to take them into that world as so many authors do with me when I read their books.
One day - I AM going to be able to say - 'hey - I'm an author' - but until then - my undying respect for the work authors have to do is in full flow.
Sometimes you see something and you just have to post it - this one I saw courtesy of a reddit user.
The best bit in the info here:
".........on the advice of a passing sailor, the stem of the sailor's pipe was inserted into her rectum and air was blown into the pipe's bowl through a piece of perforated paper."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
I wonder if after having smoke blown up their ass if they could blow it out again afterwards!!!
"Violence against women and girls is unacceptable in any form."
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
I agree - it is. It is also as unacceptable for men to suffer from any kind of violence also.
Soooooo here we go again. The Government is in the mire about several other things going on so they roll out 'old faithful' as they do every couple of years or so - and the Government before them - domestic abuse' - to try and look as though they are actually going to attempt something valid this time and deflect from other issues for a couple of days.
So the latest idea - the 'Abusive Partners Register'..... okayyyyy!
Yes, yes, I sound pessimistic and have every right to. They drag this horse out to trot every couple of years with different plans being spoken of for a couple of days and then nothing more is ever heard.
Do I have a right to say anything - do I know what I am talking about in suffering at the hands of an abusive partner?
YES - for a few years I did just that. Raped almost daily, beaten daily without fail, sometimes a quick few punches, more often than not beaten to the point of not being able to walk properly because of fractures or just sheer pain, not being able to see out of my eyes properly (I had one that did not care if anyone saw me with black eyes and a bruised face - he thought it made him look big and hard).
I was not allowed to go out - not even to ante-natal classes because there were other men there (with their partners having their baby but hey ho - they were men). Every couple of months or so I was forced to stay awake for a week and sometimes 2 weeks straight and was beaten if I fell asleep. You're wondering how he did it? He was sick enough to put an alarm on hourly to wake himself up and then beat me more because he was tired with having to wake up every hour.
I got to breaking point - I picked this man up by the scruff of the neck and slammed him against a wall with a knife pinned against his throat and told him if he came near me ever again I would kill him.
I have my faith to thank that I did not go that one step further and actually kill him there and then.
I was lucky - I found the strength and got away. To be honest I had a crap childhood and had been in the pit of abuse too much to let my children suffer at the hands of it. He had not touched the children - but I was not going to give him the chance to harm them in any way either - they deserved better from me as their mother - momma bear - to protect them properly. I did make sure he went to prison after I knew he did not know where I was and that I had a secure injunction which would be acted on - the police WERE immensely helpful in reassuring me of this and were there when he wanted to collect clothing - which ended up being taken by the garbage collectors by accident - uh huh!
They were kind and considerate and treated him as the burden and not me.
The APR will not work for one major reason - it is DOMESTIC abuse they are aiming at. Within the home. That means years of fear and being trapped for most people whether they are adults or children.
A conviction will be needed for people to be placed on this register - too many people in any form of abuse are afraid to report domestic violence. For a majority of cases it is still reliant on the person who has been beaten/abused to press charges.
Abuse is about power and fear.
The sad thing is a government using domestic abuse as something to be thrown around to take the focus off other things every year or two years. They talk for a few days then nothing else is heard about it - as is seen now from the weekend when the register was first mentioned - it was mentioned on Monday and Tuesday then nothing more.
People's fear and terrible conditions in living in abusive households should not be taken out to trot for the sake of a publicity stunt or any other reason.
It is sick and sad that so many people will have seen the proposal for the register - whether in abusive households or not and thought the same as myself, 'yeah yeah, they got this one out to play again.'
It is about time the government used a different ploy to divert attention from other issues - or even better - actually did something about them and about domestic violence so that people living in fear can actually believe that there is hope for them to get away - that something in the form of real action will be done to help them - rather than talking about crap that just will not work no matter how much the government try and dress it up with little bows.
Bows come undone!
Ohhhhhh this pissed me off when reading it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5780725.ece
Carrying on from Blair's failings, Brown's lot are continuing to make sure that we end up with nothing to be proud of whatsoever in Britain.
We have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates anywhere but the new idea from the Government is - do not teach your kids right from wrong when talking about sex.
I have 4 kids - 2 of them are teenagers - 18 and 16 - that age.
I fully agree that sex should not be made something to be afraid of or seen as something dirty or immoral.
HOWEVER - I am not about to stop teaching and reiterating to any of my kids to have respect for others and most importantly themselves when it comes to sexual relationships with others.
Healthy relationships - whether of a sexual nature or not - are based around respect for the other person - but more-so in relationships where sex is involved.
Respect comes from having morals and values for oneself initially so that they may be used throughout one's life.
Apparently we should start the 'big talk' with children as young as possible.
WHY?
Children should be children and like adults each one is different as to the information they can take on board and process. Talking with children at too young an age can cause all sorts of problems when they are unable to process the information appropriately and become confused.
This is another ridiculous act in the Government continuing with the creation of it's 'fuck you' society which is only capable of saying 'fuck you' in return - because they are not expected to have any respect for anyone and sadly not even for themselves.
This brainchild came on the wave of a boy becoming a father at the age of 13.
Maybe if he had been taught morals and values and that maybe obtaining an education, becoming a functioning member of society and learning respect for others and himself - that maybe - just maybe - he would not be having sex at such a young age or maybe even knowing enough to use a condom to prevent pregnancy and reduce the risk of disease.
His more open sex education classes that the government brought into schools are obviously working!
It is about time this Government got on with the job of governing and stop nannying and trying to be every child's parents - because if I made as much of a fuck up or half the suggestions that the Government makes in how to be a parent and let's just let the little darlings run around and bonk each other stupid and then we can send them to school so they can learn what sperm tastes like - then my status as a mother would definitely be looked at.
Like many, I have dabbled in writing for myself but never gone as far as getting anything published. For those of you that have read my other blog on 'blogger' or have seen my page on 'myspace' - you will have also seen that I occasionally write book reviews - and I have had the honor of having had 3 authors ask me to write reviews for their books.
One of said authors - Andrew Towning - I have known since May last year. He is a published author of 2 books (thriller/spy genre) and is presently putting the finishing touches to his third for publication.
Whilst talking he mentioned towards the end of last year that he wanted to leave that genre for a while and try something different - with a co-author - someone who was capable of writing but who maybe had not had the opportunity to get published - in the crime/thriller genre. Let's be fair - it is the fastest selling genre around the western world - we all want to know what makes criminals tick - hail the hero and boo the baddie!
I'm getting to my little secret - really!!!!!
So - not thinking for one second he was talking about me - we got to some minor pussy-footing around the issue and different ideas - I was chuffed to be asked!
Sending ideas back and forth and he said they were good and would work! So now Andrew and I are co-authoring a book!!!
Now it is the serious stage of character profiles, settings, getting basics on paper etc and it is FUN!!!!!
I am really doing this - and have to kick myself now and again to remind myself it is real!!
I have a dear friend - Dan - a very talented writer himself - who is keeping me grounded - making me think about things when I go too high into the clouds - whom I know will not flatter me and will let me know if something is not quite right. His friendship is invaluable to me as his company on this journey.
My brain is fuzzy, my nerves are all over the place - in wanting to do this but also in working with someone already published 3 times and feeling somewhat inadequate - but so grateful to Andrew for this amazing opportunity and his belief that I can do this too.
It is a door that remains locked to many for various reasons and I have an opportunity to, if not charge through it, at least tip-toe through it and take a good peek!
So - wish me luck - I will need it!!!
In Japan, 7 people were rushed to hospital suffering from various things including limb paralysis and breathing trouble.
Fugu (blowfish to you and me!) can only legally be prepared in Japan by chefs that hold a valid license for the said purpose!
It is 100 times more poisonous than potassium cyanide - yet is popular with thrill-seeking gourmets (death is a thrill now?!?!?!).
Still..... it takes all sorts huh?!?!?
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