Actually, I have written articles and other novels whilst I was injured. Hardly time-wasting. Check your facts. After next week I will be mobile and be so busy I won't have time for people like you.
Oh and Bellatrix. It was you made the comment that girls couldn't afford tampons but were paying for mobile phones. We do have a different sense of humour. I find that statement distasteful and unfunny!
You are entitled to your opinion. Our political opinions are vastly different. Good luck to you in the future. I hope in the future people on this site can have more compassion for those who are suffering poverty instead of being heartless. as I said before the attitude of Jax and Jazzy is reflects what is wrong with our society today. Look after yourself and don't care about others other than your family or small group of friends. Please don't make excuses for people who don't care a damn for others and try to welcome new people on the site in future or more will leave.
I accepted your explanation Bellatrix. I ignored the ignorant comments of the ant-semitists and did not suffer. If statements are clear and developed and the context then I understand the sentiment. I do not have selective perception. As a legal academic I was trained to analyse statements and as I said my husband felt uncomfortable with what he read as well.
Hi Bellatrix, I have a sense of humour if the topic is funny. I suffered anti-semitism when I was a child and has a Jewish name and was thought a Jew even though I went to Church of England Sunday School and therefore I find racism difficult to stomach. I also taught Equal Opportunities policy and take the subject seriously. I read the posts to my husband and he came to the same conclusions as me and he was also horrified when he heard someone said girls couldn't afford tampons because they were paying mobile phones. He asked if the person who said that has a social conscience. There are girls in the cities around here who do not eat breakfast because their parents are so poor and the teacher have to provide breakfast and shoes. Hardly funny is it? It is possible to be unpleasant by ignoring people when they are on a thread and someone answers every reply except the one who is being ignored.
We all forget posts but there is no excuse for a group to ignore a person who is housebound for six weeks if they claim to be friends. My husband could not believe this had happened.
As a few people have posted I decided to answer the posts. Bellatrix your posts seemed often to have underlying racist tendencies. You explained your viewpoints and I was mistaken. As you said things need to be looked at in context and I apologize for the misinterpretation. Thanks for the post on my update post. LL. You were one of the few people who have replied to my posts. A number of people have told me they tried to post on this site but it is too tight and cliquey and a few people seem to post to each other and they have left for this reason. No-one in six weeks asked after my health after I posted about my injury. I hoped after putting an update this might get a response and the group might show some interest. I was wrong. Only two people bothered. Jax claimed she was busy but she came on the site the day I posted the update and answered another one and ignored mine even though it was the last post and obvious to see. Your words Jax 'if it causes offence so be it' shows you are insensitive and don't care a damn about who you offend or upset.
My husband was trying to persuade me to give the site another chance but Jazzy you said that you know who you can turn to in hard times. It is certainly not you or Jax. On another site I had 90 people wish me good luck and have regularly asked after my health and replied to my updates. My husband said remember 'there are uncaring people on every site and you have to ignore them and try to talk to the decent ones.' Finding them is difficult on this site when only about 6 people have bothered to reply to my posts and most don't show they care at all.
Only two people bothered to reply to my post Update. Clearly this shows few people are interested or care how I am progressing. I find this site is too cliquey and I am leaving the site. ON other sites people have been more friendly and seem to care about others more. They don't make comments about the poor not having sanitary towels but being able to afford their mobile phones. What a disgraceful thing to say about people suffering hardship. They don't excuse a President who is accused of harassing and abusing women by saying women say these things in locker rooms. They don't in the locker gyms I have been in. They are ladies!. This is the only site I am on where Trump and Farage are considered decent people. On every other site I post in they are considered racist, manipulative liars.. Free Speech is good but I hate the narrow-minded 'Little English' mentality that I see in these posts. Some of the contributors on this site need to get out of their narrow little worlds and see the good things immigrants bring to this country for a change. They have added to our prosperity and have helped me whilst I have been housebound. How sad many of you are. The problem with our world today is people like you, only wanting to help 'our own' people. You rural yokels need to attend more than one university outside of your country and read widely and meet people from other countries who have valuable skills and are more intelligent than you and then you would open your eyes. Thanks to Trisha and Moi for replying to my post, real ladies I will miss Moi's posts. She is a tolerant lady. Goodbye.
It is nearly nine weeks after I broke my ankle. I hope to lose my boot a week today and start walking with a shoe and even drive so I can get out without my husband taking me everywhere. I was lucky. Heartlands Hospital staff were largely very caring. I am afraid my doctor didn't ring me until nearly six weeks after I was released from hospital and there were no visits from the district nurse so the after-care system needs to be improved. My husband went to work late in order to give me breakfast and came home at lunchtime or early in the afternoon. I had a good cleaner who helped me as well. I used online shopping to take some of the strain off Steven.
I managed to read at the Tamworth Literary Festival last night and am on a crime panel tonight talking about the research into personalities of murderers in Tamworth library along with professional forensic scientists. I have kept myself amused by writing two stories for anthologies raising money for a charity supporting young men who suffer from depression and anxiety and an animal rescue charity. I am also half-way through writing a medieval paranormal novel. I also have reviewed lots of books. There is a good channel 801 which has true movies which are really interesting. it also has the Waltons and The Little House on the Praire if anyone likes sweet programmes.
I am hoping to start going to the gym in a week's time ad hope to visit more interesting places like the National Trust with friends.
Trisha, my husband can't stand his boss and loves chopping vegetables when he gets home. He finds it therapeutic and visualizes his boss under his knife.
I can't eat big meals any longer Magggzz. Did you see the programme where diabetics eating a veg and wholefood diet plus white meat and fish reversed their diabetes and one is in remission They hope to stop using the injections. Good for them and the NHS.
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