Anyone who has read my Masters Degree university work will know of my connection with Victim Support and also the recommendations I made for having properly trained police staff acting as family liaison officers. Thankfully family liaison officers are now fully trained although I don't kid myself that my work had anything to do with this decision.
I always had the feeling that victims of crime generally got a rough deal and nowhere near the support they deserved or needed and sadly I still feel this is the case. I believe our society is so bound up in thinking about the transgressors that we forget the needs of victims.
Just look at the post office debacle and there are many other examples as well. This is a subject I could go on at length about, along with how our society is so wrapped up in red tape, form filling and sitting in judgement on others that we seem to have lost our way when it comes to caring.
In fact as a country we seem to have lost our way quite a bit in recent times through arrogance and inertia. At times I feel we need to reset the clock. At the end of March we certainly need to spring forward more than just one hour.
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Tuesday morning chuckle from my mate Keith Skipper - Always borrow money from a pessimist as they won't expect it back.
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The time is 4.40 pm in the afternoon. That's 4.40 in the afternoon when the children are just settling down to veg out in front of the television. The last few weeks we have enjoyed knowledgeable people on Jeopardy. Now we are back to slightly less knowledgeable people (I'm being kind there) on Tipping Point which isn't what I want to talk about.
It's 4.40 pm and an ad break on Tipping Point and there's an advert telling me that if I use a small amount of a cream I can get my erection back. Think I'll leave that one there.
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Thanks for all the responses on my list of top music groups and artists. I had a few that started " how could you leave out" followed by a list of artists. Made me realise how many there are that I love.
So while I'm on about music. At my usual visit to Cousin Belinda's yesterday we had a discussion about the lyric of a particular song. I need some sharp person to answer something about the song by ELO entitled "Don't Bring Me Down." There's a rather high pitched chorus which you will remember if you know the song.
"It sounds as if he's singing Bruce," said cousin.
"I think that's exactly what he's singing," I replied. I had looked the lyrics up once and they definitely said "Don't bring me down Bruce."
But when I looked them up yesterday it said roose which didn't make any sense. Who knows what lyric was being sung?
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Does anyone understand the attraction of escape rooms?
There was someone on TV yesterday who said escape rooms were their hobby and they had done 70. Now I'm not assuming all my readers are conversant with escape rooms, so a little description and bear with me if you know this.
You get locked into a room probably with a few others and the aim is to escape within a certain time by answering a series of puzzles or solving clues. Solve all the clues and what happens - yes you escape from the room. Fail to solve the clues and what happens - yes you are allowed out of the room. Now this seems entirely pointless to me as you will escape whatever happens. Ok I know it's just a bit of fun and gives you a feeling of satisfaction similar to that experienced if you beat the clue setters in completing a Sudoku or a crossword or getting a Wordle answer in under three goes.
Of course they can't allow you not to escape. In the one we did we got so lost that a disembodied voice shouted out additional clues to us along the lines of "have you looked under the desk drawer?"
We made a mess of escaping and I was just glad to get out I don't think it's an entertainment I will be looking to repeat any time soon.