Long time no post

by Hayley
(Birmingham)

Here I am again, (on a potentially temperamentasl computer!) It has been a very long time since I last posted anything in my room, and a lot has happened since then, some good, some not so good. In the eyes of child protection, some pretty damn frustrating.

A long while ago I had a sort of commentary about little Khyra who was starved to death by her mum and step dad. They have since lodged an application to appeal against the already pathetic sentence they had imposed on them for all seven counts of child cruelty and murder. Since then a case review has been launched. Schools, doctors, the council and social workers missed so many opportunities to save those kids. The mother, Angela Gordon would shout at social workers to go away they didn't need to visit. Said professionals accepted that and left despite allegedly seeing Khyra standing at a windo, probably looking somewhat emaciated. She took the kids out of school but even then failed to meet the standards of education that she should have been meeting. with some luck heads will roll and those children will get some form of justice.

Another horrifying case of child abouse, two young people caring for a 3 year old boy, or supposedly caring for him. Instead they took great entertainment from hitting him and laughing at him as he cried in pain and probably terror. Little Ryan succumbed to his injuries as the two people who were supposed to be looking after the little guy got their kicks from harming him. A 25 year old male and 17 year old female are the perpetrators of Ryans hell.

Unfortunately I seem to have dried up a bit there, I think I'm out of practice. In the interim I have had contact with my brother, his girlfriend and wife to be, their beautiful little girl and their crazy but adorable dog. It was pretty good, and four adults spent the saturday afternoon howling with laughter. Poor Rosie (my niece) and Ruby (crazy but adorable dog) must have wondered who these four wack jobs were. I keep trying to play the sweet innocent kid sister card but failing, it is so tempting to sweetly remind my brother who's fault it is that I'm not so sweet and innocent. I have even nearly had a boyfriend, didn't quite work out but we're still together as friends and I still love him to bits. Intimacey initially we agreed that while damn good it was a mistake, we later agreed that it couldn't have been that bad if it was so good!

As for my hockey, things have really gone swimmingly, or should I say skatingly? April 25th 2010 I finally got my first ever league point, an assist in a 10-2 loss away at Kingston - upon - Hull. We then had a home game the week after and I got on the ice twice and served a team mates 5 minute penalty as she got that and game for fighting. The stupid cow backed into my team mate who got ejected, and she moaned about getting pounded? If you can't take it mate hang your skates up! I was somewhat livid after that and my coach who couldn't run the bench as he had to ref along with my best mate dropped round to my flat to talk me into playing the next weekend and going away a month after that to a women's hockey tourney.

Am I ever glad I did, even if I played well in every shift I got in Guildford Spectrum so didn't get chucked into the pool as I had been threatend would happen if I played a bad shift. I was pleased to have played well but most upset I didn't get a chance to carry out my counter threat of pulling the coach in with me if he dared to chuck me in the pool.

A month later was a trip to Swindon for the afore mentioned tournament. I had a player, a coach and a parent all say that I had played well, got an assist, (I actually got two but the ref didn't see one of them as it was a bit manic around the other teams goal) and had a great laugh. We came third in the round robin stage and beat our local rivals 3-0, that certainly made up for the assist I didn't get!

It's been a long time since I last posted anything, let's hope it won't be a long time until I post again.