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Before the murder of my family, I thought that it would be lovely to retire to France and have some space for grandchildren that was near enough to the United Kingdom so that the children could visit easily and without the difficulties of complex visa requirements… How little did I know that these two countriesContinue reading “Buying a farm house in France…”

I remember arriving the very first time in Abu Dhabi… I planned that visit for many weeks. I had no idea what to expect, I purchased Hijabs, I did all the research thoroughly and I was never so nervous and excited about any holiday in my whole life. My memories of childhood are like aContinue reading “Abu Dhabi…Paradise”

Regular readers know that this blog grew from my experience of systemic gender based violence in the United Kingdom. Its always a difficult thing to look back at, and try to decide what I could have done differently… The reality is that when abuse begins in childhood, the secrets and internalisation, self blame, protecting careContinue reading “Leaving abuse early …”

As a young person I read from an early age and anyone who joins me on this blog knows that my love was always was and will be Jane Austen. However many years ago I used to purchase books for curiosity and perhaps to make me look slightly more intellectual than the perception of theContinue reading “Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment… it was not much fun !”

So financial planning and success relies heavily on both hard work, commercial acumen and most importantly support. This varies from culture to culture, as many do not value financial success to societal norms of women and financial success. Our success depends not only on our personal talent and acumen in business development, but how theContinue reading “It isn’t mindset it’s support…”

This translation of the King James Bible I have read more than once in its traditional form. However I was sent a book called Bible in a year sent free. I read it every day for a year and although maybe nothing to do with the book itself, my entire life fell apart.. To provideContinue reading “My free copy of The Bible in a year Edition …”

A child I used to sneak batman comics from my Uncles collection of superhero comics. I skipped through the spiderman section… all of the others were not a hit with me … But Batman was my absolute favourite…The car the the cool black outfit the getting the bad guys by hanging around with the badContinue reading “Batman of course …”

Luton airport is without one shadow of a doubt the worst airport for staffing I have every been to. I actually feel sad for the owners. Its location is great, its facilities smart, but the staff were absolutely abysmal. The police were rude, the checkin staff awful and NEVER again !!!!!… The best is handsContinue reading “Worst is definitely Luton… Best read on…”

The women in my family were inherently carers and people pleasers… This meant that they were charming but vulnerable to abuse… My mothers example during my formative years was one of the feminist generation. She worked full time and ran a home. She took a partner, but never married or lived full time with anyone.Continue reading “People pleasing…”

In England there was a British military decision to withdraw access to full medical care…This was at a juncture when I had discovered that my entire medical intervention for psychotropic medications was to try and hide and prevent evidence being given about the serious and sustained domestic violence I had suffered. This latterly was discoveredContinue reading “Brought me a glass of water during torture…”