Sunday 6th July 2008
It feels like an age since I put finger to keyboard. But I don’t know where the time has gone some days since returning to work full time there just aren’t enough hours in the day. I have found it so much easier though with all the local cooks and chefs helping out and dropping meals off. It is such a big help I can’t thank those that do it enough.
I may put a carers4carers cook book together; it also explains why I am now gaining weight and no longer losing it!
Obviously I have to work hard to maintain my athletic fizzical behaviour, or is that too quizzical as your all now thinking he never had the body of an Adonis (or some other aftershave bottle - anyone remember Hi-Karate or Blue Denim that’s when men had smells and not fragrances….oh and soap on a rope). Anyway before the fizz losses its sparkle I will move on.
We have recently had the 2nd Carers Ball aka the Pink Ball - which sounds a bit Monty Python to me. But it was another fantastic event; certainly my 5 year diary has never been so full! The setting at Pinewood Studios was lovely and it was so nice to see all those people there supporting Keran, the boys and Justice (not sure who that is - probably a freeloader).
It was nice to see so many having a ball literally, I hope once Keran is free we can find some excuse to do these events on a regular basis, maybe picking other good causes.
We have no real news still except that the legal team are busy working away getting reports in from various other experts to back up those that put Maeve’s sad death down to another cause. We have had various e-mails in regarding others in the same boat. I will of course help the innocent as much as I can. I can do this because of all the support you have given us.
I was disappointed to see that the expert Dr Southall, who accused Sally Clarks husband of the killing their children, on the back of watching a TV show, mind you the Police believed him showing the power of an expert witness over normally questioning Police Officers. He has been cleared by the GMC of poisoning children in his care as allegedly part of experts on kids. The parents are going to fight on and well done to them for doing so.
I see one of our experts wrote over 6 reports on our case, he is a free lance expert so can’t see he would have any other motive….oooh wait a minute…money….nawh, just cos he does this as a full time living I am sure he wouldn’t do that prat …sorry ‘that’! He with two others will be top of my list to go to the GMC if we can. But even if we can’t get them there we can just make people think about not using them as their credibility will be shot.
Anyway I think that’s enough of them….for now…….
Now whilst I sold the family silver off the other day to pay for a tank of Diesel, I noticed a newspaper report saying that Highwaymen are operating again in the area, they stop you and demand your diesel or your life. You will recognise them as they stink of fuel, don’t smoke and have lips blistered with petrol were they sucked the fuel out.
Whilst speaking to Mrs H earlier she was trying to tell me something that the other prisoners had been trying to teach her. She has to be careful on the phone as the calls can be monitored and she doesn’t want to sound too thick!!! God only knows what she will come out like after this ordeal, but hopefully she will know how to hot wire a nice car and arrange a bank job. I dread to think……..
When a DVD is played through the central player, piped into the rooms apparently, they don’t use the normal, U, 15, PG or 18 age brackets they just say its KA.. Keran Appropriate…..it’s usually made by Disney!
I also sent Keran an idea for a round road trip all around Europe (something I have fancied doing for a while) when she gets out and her name cleared, but they thought it was a cunning escape plan! So cunning it ends up back in England! Who would have thought it! It’s like the Great Escape guys ending up in Berlin!
So smile when you think all is bad in your world, cos nothing is funnier than this country. Anyway I have been told that all escape plans have to go through the Health and Safety Committee before the Escape Committee!
I have this image of an H&S inspector going down the tunnels saying to Steve McQueen, Dickie Attenborough et al…You can’t go down there it’s not up to European Specs! You will also have to tell the Camp boss (images of Butlins in Brighton now)…who would have thought it!
Anyway its late and work calls in the morning but before I go I read this passage earlier and just want to share it with you …
‘When God wants a hard thing done, He tells it to his Englishmen….The Englishmen is made for a time of crisis, and for a time of emergency. He is serene in difficulties, but may seem indifferent when times are easy. He may not look ahead, he may not heed warnings, he may not prepare, but when he once starts he is persistent to the death, and he is ruthless in action. It is these gifts that have made the Englishman what he is……’
Stanley Baldwin
Actually another jumps out to me and that is…..
‘We were not fairly beaten, my lord. No Englishmen is ever fairly beaten’.
The Chaplain in George Bernard Shaw’s St Joan (1924)
So for Keran, St George, England and God. May Justice be done, even nearly 8 months on! Keep you families close and count the blessings we all still have even in the lowest of the lows. Thanks to all the best supporters in the world. So many of you have given so much to so few for so long…now that sounds familiar too? Nawh……I think I came up with it first!
Stay safe
Iain