tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17288976160360724672024-03-14T15:34:37.080+00:00RedMummy Rambles OnI'm rather a tentative and erratic blogger ... sometimes I write a lot and quite frequently; other times I barely write anything at all! My main aim, Dear Reader, is to have some fun, share a few thoughts and snippets of my life with you and most importantly - not to bore you!Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-73741693704375251802020-04-08T01:01:00.000+01:002020-04-08T01:01:06.832+01:00on Boredom, Lack of Appetite and unintentially going completely ga-gaWhich of the above should I deal with first. I think it has to be boredom because that lines up well with the third item ... i.e. going completely ga-ga.<br />
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I've known myelf for nearly 64 years now (well, okay - let's discount the tiny years and the toddler episodes). I can still very clearly remember that potty-training time always used to take place during "Listen with Mother" and I knew it was time to finish when I recited the Shipping Forecast (which I still have a tendency to do although I've now abandoned the potty). I learned to speak at a very early age ... I was about 13 month old. I was far too idle (even then) to actually get on my fat little legs and walk anywhere but I was expert at speaking in perfect Received Pronunciation such statements as "Excuse me, Mummy, please, but I need my little table, some paper and some pencils. So impressed was my darling Ma that I could speak so clearly that, instead of telling me to get off my bum and get them myself, she passed them to me with pride that my verbal skills were developing so nicely.<br />
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Now comes the ga-ga. I was very lucky to attend Edgbaston College Preparatory School. My headmistress used to say to my Ma that I was a funny combinaton of being a shy extrovert. Oh, I did so wanted to perform. Any poetry or reading I could manage as easily as anything. I could also dance (well, of course I could dance ... I attended the Betty Fox School of Ballet. I was never going to be Margot Fonteyn but if anyone needed an elephant, I was your girl! The most devastating thing of all for me was that I longed to sing. I cannot hold a single note in my head and whilst, these days, I sing my head off when alone in the house or the car, I am not allowed to sing in front of anyone else. I also have a slight problem of corpsing if I'm anywhere near a microphone which is a pity because I still speak RP and I got a good, low timbre, mic voice but if requested to use said RP voice into a microwave, I can usually be found underneath a desk or hiding behind a curtain<br />
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There are many other instances of ga-ga which combined with boredom. When I started at Grammar School, rainy days were dull. Outside days were more fun because 3 of my friends and I developed an exercise called "Crab Walking" which in involved putting our left legs at the top of the grass slope from the school forecourt whilst placing our right legs at the bottom of the grass covered slope and then we spent a pleasant hour walking like crabs along the entire length of the hockey field ... to the great delight of our fellow students, the dinner ladies and our PE teacher.<br />
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On rainy days we ate our lunch and then headed for the school hall which was really dull. I decided that it would be a good idea for any student who desired to perform something ... a poem, an essay, a song, some acrobatics and then there was me. I decided that my best bet would be to speak in a Kenneth Williams voice (and if I could squeeze a little Polari into it, so much the better), then tie an orange to a fairly long piece of string and commentate on what I was doing whilst dragging it along the school hall stage. This seemed to provide great hilarity with my co-students, dinner ladies and quite a few teachers who'd been informed that there was a lunatic in the school hall. Fortunately, said teachers guffawed at my antics and I escaped without punishment or detention. In fact, a long conversation with my headmistress ensued with her asking me if I had any aspirations into going into "Performing Arts". I did. And, when I left school and went to college I also enrolled in what used to be The Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Arts. Less polite pupils than I used to call it The Birmingham School of Street Training and Dramatic Tarts - but I was far too polite (?) to emulate or say that.<br />
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Reverting back to my time at the now de-funct Edgbaston College Preparatory School, one of my favourite lessons - after English and History - was Verbal Reasoning which was taught to us by Colonel Geffen. I was 8 years old. My hand was always up when a question was asked and at the end of one lesson, Colonel Geffen asked if I could stay behind for a quick chat. He asked if I ever read a newspaper. That answer was easy. I read one every single day and I had a very good General Knowledge according to the Kindly Colonel. Had I any idea how to use this knowledge was beyond me but I do know that I my score on 11+ was the highest in Birmingham and, had I have sat the King Edwards Girls' School Exam, I would have passed. As it was, my mother advised by the Prep School headteacher (who mainly dealth with the maintenance of the school) rather than the Headmistress, to try for Kings Norton Girls' Grammar School. Wrong choice. I could easily have got into King Edwards Camp Hill and would have been a very happy pupil indeed. Oh well, we live and learn. Sadly.<br />
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I suppose I could join an AmDram club or take up pottery but my heart beats to entertain. Not really "stand-up" but perhaps sitting down and being a raconteur.<br />
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Time is running out. I have less time left on this earth than I did and I reckon I've gone all shy again but, if anyone would like to give me a chance - what's the worse that could happen? Give me a mic, a desk or a curtain and I can corpse with the best of them.Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-65631384652720359892020-03-28T06:04:00.000+00:002020-03-28T06:04:55.087+00:00... about self-distancing, going stir crazy and still trying to be responsibleSince the beginning of the current millenium we've sadly become used to disasters. 9/11, 7/7, random "so-called" ISIS attacks, Trump the egregious, Syrian children isolated from their parents but this ... this "Act of God" (said she, a born atheist) has knocked us for six.<br />
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We've been conditioned to "active" disasters and, whilst, COVID19 is indeed a disaster it's woefully without action. Yes ... the simple action of action is proving just a tad too hard for most of us ... even those of us who maintain a 6 foot distance to others whilst taking our daily exercise or walking our dogs or trawling around a supermarket whose shelves are ever more empty. It's dull. It's depressing and it proves that this particular disaster has more symptoms than mere COVID19. I have a feeling that life will change beyond all recognition when COVID19 becomes a thing of the past. Perhaps we'll have learnt a few lessons ... that "being nice and kind" can both operate at a distance of 6 feet and that neighbourly and community acts can still continue.<br />
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Of course, there are always going to be people (mainly youth, I fear) who consider themselves invincible regardless of all the instructions (which SO many people find difficult to understand but which are actually quite simple. STAY INSIDE, ONLY GO OUTSIDE IF IT'S FOR ESSENTIALS, EXERCISE, WALKING THE DOGS and, even, SKIPPING IN THE GARDEN. What exactly is hard to understand about any of those? There is no room at this time for anything party political. There should be an agreement in politics that any member of any party should be operating on cross-party lines in order to maintain safety during this dull and difficult time. Political point scoring should be at level zero.<br />
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To return to the theme that humans have become used to "active disasters": 9/11, 7/7, "so-called" ISIS attacks, too many random racist attacks, Syrian children isolated from their parents. Sorry ... but COVID19 has none of those things to watch, re-watch, analyse or bother with right now. An "Act of God" tops them all without any frisson of excitement whatsoever. No. The challenge not only includes trying to avoid the bloody virus but also attempts (successful and unsuccessful) at maintaining our sanity.<br />
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How's your household doing? We've discovered that the less activity there is the more tired we feel. Until bedtime ... when after days of comparative inactivity, sleep is ever more difficult for this particular insomniac.<br />
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I thought our big dog was the sensible one. She is ... but she's also daft enough to lie by my bed, fast asleep and soundless. The educationally challenged smaller dog opted to sleep in son's room. Son, currently, displays no virus symptoms whatsoever. I, however (although having a near-constant cough, no sense of either smell or taste, pains in my chest and everything else just plain hurts ... I'm neither a frontliner not a Royal and I haven't had a test but I'm not (completely) stupid and I reckon I virus-ridden. I cannot sleep without a snoring Bugly Boo on my bed. Mindfulness came into play. I went downstairs to avail myself of yet another tasteless cup of tea and, on my return, The Bugly Boo picked up on my brand of being mindful and putting half-working brain and odd-shaped limbs firmly on my bed is now snoring away in a most comforting fashion.<br />
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I am trying to take comfort that the world order may change after COVID19 expires. I like to be an optimist (although I'm a natural pessimist). How long will the neighbourhood/community spirit last after the virus has ended? It would be good to think that it will continue. I have my doubts.<br />
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I usually maintain a (fairly) friendly demeanour on Facebook and save Twitter for snarking at political types. But, in the past three days, I've gone retro to the tune of 25 years ago ... when I didn't have an iPhone, an iPad, a laptop or a computer. I haven't even watched TV and most of my friends know that I am the walking, talking embodiment of The Radio Times. I have neither had the inclination nor the energy to offer my nonsense to any one who'll read it. Manage without it ... there are plenty of other people who will fill your timelines up without me joining in. Except it's 6.03am and it's been nearly three years since last I blogged. Forvive me if you find it boring - but, for me, it represents a return to writing which I thought I'd long since forgotten how to do.<br />
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Who knows, in another 3 years I may write something else. But please don't wait with baited breath.<br />
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<br />Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-2873450842065277132017-03-16T02:01:00.000+00:002017-03-16T02:53:56.154+00:00... SOMETHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For as long as I can remember since The 6ft Toddler was old enough to speak, I've always told him to be alert. When he was VERY little, he wondered what a lert looked like.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hell. Yes, it is sheer hell to be the sole parent of The 6ft Toddler who now, as an adult, comes and goes as he pleases. I can no longer insist that he has an evening at home and, apparently, he is now responsible for his own safety. Bah and humbug!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But, perhaps my insistence on him paying attention, listening and looking on the periphery and being in touch with the "feel" of any form of situation, may just have paid off last night.
The 6ft toddler was wending his way along the High Street. When he arrived home he described his route as being almost Mediterranean ... the weather has been good, it's dry and Spring is almost upon us. He encountered families out strolling and the atmosphere was gentle. Until it became bad.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Son sensed that all was not right. He'd noticed a couple of guys - one on foot and the other on a bicycle - weaving their way along the pavement and now they were parallel to him. The guy on the bicyle was somehow trying to corrall him. My son felt unsafe - he could see a guy to the left of him and heard him talk into his 'phone. He was saying "Armani, How about this one?"
Son maintained his usual walking pace and just as he began to feel that everything was stinking of fish he ducked into a light, bright, busy corner shop and the something that could have happened didn't happen.</span></span>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-58237183333211646312016-07-09T09:47:00.002+01:002016-07-09T09:47:22.935+01:00SIX MONTHS INThe disappearing beauty of an early morning dew<br /> Is lost on me ...<br /> Part of my heart died with you.<br />
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Posed questions are now just muddled through;<br /> Unsolved by me ...<br /> Part of my mind died with you.<br />
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A star-studded night sky is just plain dark blue -<br /> Or so it seems to me ...<br /> Part of my soul died with you.<br />
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One half of a partnership instead of two.<br /> So unused to being me ...<br /> Part of my life died with you.Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-24684594504242317592016-05-14T14:59:00.002+01:002016-05-14T14:59:53.803+01:00Question TimeKaren Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-18876210412213926042015-10-25T20:34:00.003+00:002015-10-25T20:34:50.840+00:00about The Insides of those Dingly Dangly Bits<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In
the past 6 months, after 4 years of treatment for Prostate Cancer which failed,
my 63 year old husband and father to our 18 year old son was told that his
treatment which comprised 7 weeks of radiotherapy followed up by 4 years of
hormone therapy had failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
prognosis was dire. He had, when told of the treatment’s failure, a prognosis
of less than a year to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doctors
like to be as optimistic as possible. I am a realistic pessimist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reckon that if my husband sees the next 3
months out, he’ll be fairly lucky.</div>
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<br /></div>
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He’d
have been luckier still had he have actually said that he’d been having wee
problems 2 years before he mentioned them to me let alone to anyone in the
medical profession. Had he have done so, we would not be in the saddest and
most miserable situation in which we currently find ourselves.</div>
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<br /></div>
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What
IS it with men?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything to do with
bottoms or wee seem to make them hide in their shells, snail like and go
awfully quiet about such things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the
difference between males and females is the fact that some women have babies
and after gynaecological examinations-a-plenty almost anyone can tell them to
open their legs and they think “Oh, what the hell, practically everyone has
seen my nether regions”, and they display them without too much thought or
fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so with men. The dingly dangly
bits are their own and they’re not for display unless the shower or in moments
of high passion or at least something that some of them consider to be moments
of high passion.</div>
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<br /></div>
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So,
now, instead of just having something which probably started off as an enlarged
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now spread to his bone marrow. He’s in almost constant pain and now the cancer
has reached the skull which also comprises of bone and marrow, he’s fairly
doo-lally tap, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently he’s in a
hospice where his treatment has improved his physical condition, where the
nursing and medical care have been nothing short of fantastic but, within the
next couple of weeks he’s likely to be moved to a nursing home where, whilst
I’m sure he’ll be treated with kindness, the medical practice just won’t be the
same and he will once again physically deteriorate and the inevitable will
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I
had been caring for him at home but a combination of stress and the ‘flu
prevented me from continuing so to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have a kid who’s in the middle of an important academic year and whose only
relief is to go out and see his friends a great deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this is how he deals with it, then fine,
but if his studies suffer, then his father’s death will be in no small way a
contribution to that disaster.</div>
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And
me? Well, my ‘flu is getting worse rather than better. My stress levels are at all-time
high. I’ve always suffered from insomnia and now I find myself drinking cups of
tea on the patio at 4.00am nearly each morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s no great secret on Twitter that my husband and I have had our ups
and downs and plenty of them but I do know that my husband doesn’t want to die,
my son doesn’t want to be fatherless and that I shall be anything but a merry
widow.</div>
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that you’re getting up in the night to wee several times more than you do
usually, GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR. Don’t delay. If you do decide to delay, you
and your family could find yourselves in the same awful position that my family
are currently in. And I can tell you, categorically, this is NOT a good place
to be.</span>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-68360463995819640372015-02-06T16:48:00.000+00:002016-05-14T15:01:50.470+01:00... about Question Time<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This was a ghastly programme from North Finchley last
night on BBC1 (5<sup>th</sup> February 2015 at 10.45pm).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I am truly no fan of George Galloway … quite the
opposite, in fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I simply can’t bear
him but the behaviour of the Jewish members of the studio audience made me
squirm with embarrassment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m Jewish
and, given the venue of the programme, I was well aware that the subject of
anti-semitism would come up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
great pity that some of the members of the audience didn’t comport themselves in
a more composed and productive fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Galloway is horrid – that’s a given but, I agree with
him on one thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the wake of the
terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month, a great deal has been
said about freedom of speech and, if Galloway was on the Question Time panel,
he had as much right to respond to a question without any form of interruption
as any of the other panel members.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I think I also have to add that I believe the kid who
asked the initial question on anti-semitism asked the WRONG question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wondered if Galloway was at all
responsible for the very frightening rise in this old, old prejudice in the
past 12 months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Galloway is a symptom of
poor media reporting about Israel and Zionism rather than the cause of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The better question to have asked would have
been “Can the British media be held at all responsible for the rise in
anti-semitism in the past year?”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fear
that the honest answer would be a resounding “Yes”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the BBC and other UK broadcasters would
never admit to such.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the past few weeks it has been a total dichotomy to
see the dignified and sympathetic way that the Liberation of Auschwitz and
Holocaust Memorial Day have been covered but then to have BBC News cocking up
really quite badly with the baby-faced Tim Willcox making a complete fool of
himself by saying to a Parisian Jewish lady that the attack on the Kosher
Supermarket could have been caused by there being Palestinian blood on JEWISH
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish hands … not Israeli hands
but Jewish hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three soldiers were
stabbed in Nice whilst guarding a Jewish building on Tuesday (3<sup>rd</sup>
February 2015).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BBC News editors saw fit
to publish this item on its website but both on the 6 and 10 o’clock TV News
that day Harry Redknapp’s resignation from QPR took precedence and not a word
about the attack was uttered.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m fairly sure that BBC News has had its wrists
slapped by the mere fact that the findings of The Balen Report were never
released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin and
Lyse Doucet have become somewhat less polemic since the report was completed in
2004 but until there are reporters on the Middle East who aren’t all Arabists
the situation is never going to change too much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I worked at the BBC many years ago and, as an
employee, I never experienced even one iota of anti-semitism whilst I was there
but I very often felt uncomfortable as a listener and as a viewer during that period
and I continue to feel that way as an ex-employee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that when I worked there I had to
compartmentalise on many occasions … one of my bosses was the ex-Head of the
Arabic Service and my last job at the Corporation was organising seminars for
MPs (which were, regardless of the titles, all about securing a larger licence
fee).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one occasion I found myself
sandwiched between said ex-boss and an exuberant actor turned MP called Andrew
Faulds who was extremely and vociferously pro-Arab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was asked how I felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My response … “beleaguered” was said with a
slightly wry smile on my face. I didn’t feel threatened or afraid and I certainly
didn’t dislike my ex-boss nor Mr Faulds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Only recently, I met with a friend who works at the
Corporation and we agreed that it would be better not to discuss the remarks
made by Joan Rivers prior to her demise regarding last summer’s war in Gaza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a nice guy and neither he nor I have any
idea how to solve the situation in that part of the Middle East … so why
discuss?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t honestly say that I
know of ANY Jewish people in the UK who took any pleasure at all in seeing the
effects of (a) Palestinians attacking Israel from tunnels with rockets and the
kidnapping and murder of Jewish kids, (b) Israel’s response to such and (c) the
amount of death and destruction meted out on ordinary Palestinian men, women
and children … whether we believe that Hamas placed them in areas of weapons
storage or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I err on the side of pessimism and I believe
anti-semitism is cyclical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel less
comfortable in the UK now than I have ever done before and I’m not sure that
this is because of Israel’s actions in Gaza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The current zeitgeist is yet another upsurge in fascism and
radicalisation in this country and I believe realistic pessimism is necessary
to keep ALL of us alert regardless of whether we’re Jewish, Christian, Indian,
Muslim or anything else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jewish people who take notice of what is going on the
world never do feel entirely comfortable in any country and with good
reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past year there have
never been as many anti-semitic attacks since the Community Security Trust
started to keep records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even before
records were kept, Jewish people had to contend with Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts
and, prior to that, during the duration of the Second World War, however much
Winston Churchill got Britain through the war he would not sanction the bombing
of train lines which led only to the Concentration Camps despite knowing
exactly what was going on in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1948, when the UN tabled a vote on whether the area
of Palestine (which was, at the time, 70% of Trans-Jordan) should become the
Jewish State of Israel, the UK voted in favour and then what did it do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The British troops armed Arabs living there
so they could fight the existing Jewish population and new immigrants who had
managed to survive the Holocaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How on
earth can Jewish people in the Diaspora ever really feel at ease knowing that
regardless of most friendly rhetoric we always have been and always will be
just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tolerated.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It isn’t the George Galloways of this world we have to
fear … for heaven’s sake he and his like are laughable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is full of it and so are his
followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picture him crawling around
pretending to be a cat with Rula Lenska on Celebrity Big Brother not so many
years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Know that the real enemy is a culture that receives
its news in badly phrased sound bites and the diminution of real news having
any impact either by not broadcasting it at all or by over-broadcasting it in the
rolling news that we are subjected to these days.</span></div>
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Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-53069775859732202432014-05-22T17:50:00.000+01:002014-05-22T18:00:17.981+01:00about a very tentative return to writing ...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello, stranger! How have you been, then? I fear that I have neglected you most dreadfully and that if anyone has visited you in the past 2 years & 3 months all they will have seen are blogs that I posted long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, please don't start thinking that I've neglected you because of not liking you any more. I like you hugely ... as far as blog spots ... you're ace. And please don't think that I've neglected you because of being bone idle. This wouldn't be accurate at all. My idleness only goes skin deep and never gets as far as my bones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So - why then have I seemingly ignored you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silly stuff really ... huge doubts about having anything interesting to say and even greater doubts about anyone actually wanting to read anything that isn't hyper interesting or, at very least, written with huge amounts of confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've left it far too long ... so, with several quite alarming trepidations, here I am writing to you again. About what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, nothing. (That's not true).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's something. Deep breath. After the extraordinary comings and goings of MPs and, amongst them, the Culture Secretary, I came to the conclusion that sometimes the best woman for a government post might well be a man. I could go further than that. Many of the best jobs should be given to humans regardless of whether they're men or women or black or white or orange ... just humans. </span></div>
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<br />Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-70590162296253147492011-08-11T09:06:00.003+01:002011-08-11T09:50:45.995+01:00Seven & a half weeks seems like a very long time ...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: arial;">Today my husband is currently en route to hospital for his second session of radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">He has to have a 10 minute blast each week day for the next</span> 7</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" >½ weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He is behaving very calmly about the whole situation but I know him quite well.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He’s frightened and that fear is, understandably, causing him to behave in more of an irritable fashion than usual.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He looks and feels very tired but, at the moment, is insisting on carrying on “as usual” work-wise which, in one way, is laudable but I’m not hugely certain that wearing himself out is a brilliant idea when undergoing a treatment that can, amongst other side-effects, cumulatively make one feel exhausted.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" > </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" >We have been enormously lucky in receiving so many messages of good luck and kind wishes for his well-being from friends all over the world.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’ve been really rather overwhelmed by emails, messages on Twitter, calls from friends.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" > </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" >The sad fact is that I had to remind my husband’s own siblings that it would be good of them to contact him to find out how he’s doing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I received but one response to this reminder … my husband’s older brother emailed to request that I shouldn’t be so condescending.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The dichotomy of having so many good wishes from friends makes his family’s behaviour seem all the more aggravating to me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I resolve not to give this too much priority but, that said, I’ve been up all night not only worrying about my husband but also prickling with indignation about his dysfunctional family.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" > </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" >This diary clearly isn’t only going to be about how my husband is coping with his treatment but also how I am feeling about it from day-to-day.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m not going to spout rude words herein but suffice it to say that it would be a damned sight easier for me to deal with my husband’s fear than it is to navigate nervously around his denial. He and his family are so controlled (and, indeed, controlling) but I must remember that everyone deals with problems in their own way.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Just now my husband’s way seems completely alien to me.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-mso-fareast-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;" > </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style=" line-height: 115%; font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;" >If anyone would care to scream on my behalf, I would be very grateful. </span></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-30566445784947576822011-07-13T01:55:00.003+01:002011-07-13T08:19:22.504+01:00I'm having a bit of a worry ...I’m having a bit of a worry …<br /><br />On 1st January 2011, I wrote my last blog post … I didn’t exactly make any New Year’s Resolutions but I did say that I was going to write 200 words each day until those words became a book. I haven’t done that. Other things took over, the 200 words each day were abandoned and instead I became involved in learning about nearly every NHS geriatric ward in the environs of North East London and Essex which now all seems pretty pointless because my 90 year old father died anyway.<br /><br />That sounds very churlish but, let’s face it, 90 year old gentlemen (and he was a GENTLE man) who suffer from Parkinson’s Disease and leukaemia tend not to get better and many of my daily visits were spent having one-sided conversations conducted in a jolly voice with someone who wasn’t ever going to respond. Sometimes I missed a day or two of visiting but then guilt got the better of me and once again I would sit at the bedside of a hallucinating nonagenarian and try for 30 minutes or an hour to make everything sound okay with his world. He died on 11th May and, sad as I am, it really and truly was for the best.<br /><br />I should, at this point, also add … with just a tinge of spitefulness in my fingertips … that I believe if the NHS in this area had got its act together, his life may have been prolonged, with considerably more dignity than was the reality, for a while longer but, heck – what’s the point? He was shunted from pillar to post and back to pillar again. Each ward to which he was admitted had no idea of what his medications should have been, what his name was or indeed where he had come from. I made an official complaint to the NHS which was only answered after my MP prompted the Trust to respond – and I received that response a week or so after his demise. I write follow-up letters in my head night after night but none of them will get printed or sent because none of them will bring my Pa back.<br /><br />In the middle of the marathon bout of hospital visiting, I had a bit more bad news … my husband has been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. He’s been having “wee problems” for about 3 years but is an extremely stubborn bugger and wouldn’t go to the Doctor – so, instead of having an enlarged prostate or even Stage 1 Prostate Cancer, he now has Stage 2 Prostate Cancer and is at home preparing for 7½ weeks of radiotherapy which we hope will see the cancer on its way. The good people of Twitter know my husband as OP which stands for Old Peculiar and, to the good people of Twitter, he IS old … he’s even older than I am and I am Methuselah and he IS peculiar – but so am I, so I guess we’re quite well-matched in an odd sort of a way. But he ISN’T that old and I have had enough of illness this year and I don’t want anything awful to happen to him. I just don’t. And stamping my feet and having a tantrum doesn’t solve anything at all but that’s exactly what I feel like doing – because it’s JUST NOT FAIR. He is a mild man, often an awkward sod and not as kind as people who meet him think he is, but he is mine and I want him to be well and happy and carry on being my husband and my son’s father.<br /><br />And NOW look what I’ve done … I’ve made myself cry. And I am not supposed to do that.<br /><br />To top it all, I have had to grow up … in the mother stakes. Josh, about whom I tweet frequently, is now 14 years old and he is on his first extended holiday away from home ever. He has spent an odd night away here and there but now he is away for a fortnight in the Middle East.<br /><br />WHAT? Do I hear people cry “THE MIDDLE EAST”? Yes, dears … that most dangerous of countries in the Middle East … you know – the one that allows women to drive, doesn't make them walk 3 paces behind their husbands covered from head to toe in black burkhas, doesn't stone them if they happen to have sex before they're married or play away from home once they are, the one that doesn’t shoot its own citizens if they have a demonstration, the one that has proper democratic elections without the need of an Arab Spring to overthrow its despotic leaders … the one that is demonised by nearly every medium possible … Israel. I WILL say that most of its citizens are desperate for peace with its neighbours but make the dreadful mistake of voting in politicians whom, because they have a good command of English (albeit "American English"), they seem to think are "statesmen" when all that they really are, are warmongers with a good command of the English language.<br /><br />And that's the little country that Josh is visiting. And I am missing my kid. I behaved disgracefully yesterday after I’d waved him off at 6.30am … I went out with a friend for a very non-kosher fried breakfast, came home, took 2 Temazepam and slept for nearly 24 hours … so I wouldn’t miss him at school out time or at breakfast time this morning. It worked for those 24 hours but I’d really only deferred the utter misery of not having him around and I feel positively ghastly tonight.<br /><br />I miss him coming downstairs at 9.00pm to assure me that he’s going to have a shower “any minute”. I feel bereft at not having to remind him at 10.30pm that “any minute” does not, in fact, comprise 90 minutes and would he PERLEEEZ go and have a shower NOW.<br /><br />I miss him interrupting my ‘phone calls. I could be on the ‘phone to the Queen herself but if Josh wants to talk to me … it would matter not. He talks. I scream at him and still he talks. I don’t listen to him and STILL HE TALKS. I miss him at 7.30am when he wakes up and demands “Mum, BE SARCASTIC … teach ME how to be sarcastic”. He doesn’t understand that I can’t help being sarcastic and I can’t switch it on or off like an electric light. And he doesn’t understand something much more important than that … sarcasm doesn’t win anyone any friends. I guess it takes an excess of 50 years on this planet to learn that for oneself.<br /><br />I miss his jokes … even the ones that aren’t funny. I miss him changing his clothes 11 times after he comes home from school or 14 times on Saturdays and Sundays. I miss him saying “Yuch” to whatever I cook and then eating 2 helpings of everything. I miss him thinking he’s conning me when, in fact, I know EXACTLY how much chocolate he eats and how many cans of diet Coke he drinks. I miss him rapping tunelessly. I miss him following me around with his video camera. I miss him most dreadfully.<br /><br />And I am very proud of myself because I now know what MY Ma went through when I went anywhere. I was an only child too and she was an uber-protective mother but she bit her tongue, gritted her teeth and didn’t wrap me in cotton wool and that is exactly how I try to be with Josh. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I don’t. But sure as hell – in these two weeks, he will be having the time of his life and it actually doesn’t matter how much I miss him because HIS independence matters so much more than my misery.<br /><br />My Ma used to say to me about kids … “When they’re babies they make your arms ache and when they grow up they make your heart ache”.<br /><br />She was very wise, was my Ma … and while I’m at it – I miss her too.<br /><br />So … I’m having a bit of a worry. Usually, I stay in my shell when I’m miserable. I don’t tweet much because I don’t want anyone to feel sorry for me, I can do it all by myself. But tonight? Well, tonight, I just have to tell you how utterly and completely wretched I feel.<br /><br />I bloody hope my next blog post is happier!<br /><br />Thank you for reading. Please pass the Kleenex.Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-34540457845219289122011-01-01T03:15:00.006+00:002011-01-01T12:17:09.253+00:00A Little Bit of Honesty to Start 2011<div style="text-align: justify;">Okay, so 2011 is the year that I have decided to call myself a writer and am committing to write at least 200 words a day so that by 31-12-11, I will have 73,000 words and something that can be mangled into a book. At the moment, most of the words that are in my head are "and", "but", "the" and "ergo" but the longer ones will come and the story is there. I am not going to tell you the longer ones until they're finished but, Dear Blog Readers and Twitter friends, please nag me because I need every bit of encouragement I can get!<br /><br />2010 was a hell of a year. It started, as most years do, on 1st January which was momentous as that was the day that I moved with my son to London in order for him to start at his new school. That move nearly split my marriage but the gods of dead controlling mothers-in-law must have been grimacing at me because husband and I still appear to be together! My instincts weren't awry. The school in Bournemouth that I took my son out of is now officially failing and the lovely journos at The Bournemouth Echo pointed out an <a href="http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8736000.Failing_Winton_Arts_and_Media_College_in_special_measures/">article</a> about it published on 14th December 2010. On the last day of 2010, they pointed me in the direction of a <a href="http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8763510._The_truth__there_isn_t_a_single_co_ed__non_denom_school_offering_a_half_decent_education_in_the_whole_of_Bournemouth_/?ref=twt">further article</a> written about a local Bournemouth councilor's views on Bournemouth education. I despair. I offered to write an article for them 14 months ago which perhaps could have benefited Bournemouth kids in achieving the education that ALL kids deserve but The Echo's editor was "a bit nervous" about it. It's not my place to ask why but, heck, I'd like to edit that newspaper! The journos there deserve a bit of bravery! That article became my blog ... "<a href="http://redmummyrambleson.blogspot.com/2009/11/lunatics-are-running-asylum.html">The Lunatics are Running the Asylum</a>". 14 months is a long time for any kid to have a rotten education and the journos at the Echo must have found their editor's decision NOT to go with my article rather frustrating. Never mind, my son is now happily installed in a most wonderful London school and is thriving. It doesn't stop me from feeling bad about the kids he left behind at the school from which I removed him.<br /><br />My blogs in the past year have been spasmodic to put it mildly - not least because I've been busy getting son settled into his new environment, buying a house and generally getting used to living back in London. Well, I say London ... we're in Essex. At some stage I will get it out of my head that I'm no longer a NW8 girl or even a SW7 girl and at some point in the near future I will, in order to fit in, have to dye myself orange and start speaking broad Essex. This is never going to happen. I may live in Essex but the accent won't adhere and nor will the colour be tangoed!<br /><br />Twitter has remained a lifeline for me and I still join in as much as I can ... but I've discovered a few realities about myself. 140 characters are not enough to be anything other than completely honest. The bullshit shows through so very clearly and I've hardened myself to the fact that I have a very long memory and am pathologically incapable of not checking facts. I don't think I am anything other than the person I am in real life when I tweet or blog. I don't pretend and I don't bullshit and in 2011, if my followers do, then they can expect me to pull them up on it. I'm all for "creative writing" but if someone blogs about something as FACT and it isn't, then it sort of makes my skin crawl. Write creatively, by all means, but head it up with "I made this up" so everyone knows where they stand.<br /><br />Can I manage without Twitter? Of course I can, and in the next year, I will be so doing as writing a couple of hundred words a day is going to restrict my time there but, I'll be around because I would miss my friends too much not to be.<br /><br />So 2011 is starting on a very honest note. If that honesty upsets anyone then I apologise but honest I am and honest I will be.<br /><br />I wish you all the 2011 that you wish for yourselves. Mainly I wish for health, happiness and peace for us all. (Oh & I also wish for people whose careers are writing schtick to stick to that and give themselves a quick kick in the shins if they start writing about politics about which they know nothing ... but that's a story for another day!).<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-35276387984496319612010-11-09T22:32:00.002+00:002010-11-09T23:06:25.230+00:00The Hot Flush Fairy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Long ago and far away I can remember my lovely Ma wandering around our home in the deepest, darkest and coldest of winters wearing summer clothes.<span style=""> </span>Often she was quite red in the face and she seemed to be incredibly distracted most of the time.<span style=""> </span>I have become my Ma … although possibly not quite so lovely but rather more distracted.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">I am being visited with boring regularity by the Hot Flush Fairy.<span style=""> </span>She’s not one of the nice fairies who live at the bottom of the garden.<span style=""> </span>She’s vile.<span style=""> </span>She inhabits whichever room, car, bed, shopping centre or street I happen to be in and so far she’s only really bothering me as neither my husband nor my son can see her or feel any of her delightful little tricks.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">About two months ago, on the advice of my doctor, I stopped taking my <a href="http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100000909.html">HRT tablets</a> and this seemed to herald the arrival of the Hot Flush Fairy.<span style=""> </span>I have been back to the doctor to plead with him to let me resume taking HRT but he has refused and he wasn’t able to provide any magic spells to banish the Hot Flush Fairy from my kingdom either.<span style=""> </span>He did offer me some teeny tiny blue tablets that he said were the same as HRT but “without the oestrogen”.<span style=""> </span>I take them religiously but the damned fairy is still plaguing me.<span style=""> </span>She’s resistant to <a href="http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100000829.html">Dixarit</a> and positively thumbs her nose at Black Cohosh, Red Clover, soya and Selenium.<span style=""> </span>She’s going to stick with me until SHE decides to go.<span style=""> </span>And meanwhile, I am living in my own personal tropical paradise.<span style=""> </span>If I walk the dog, I go out wearing suitable attire for windy, wet conditions & come back carrying almost everything except a tee-shirt which, if I weren’t so “modest”, I’d divest myself of too.<span style=""> </span>I want my oestrogen back. Please somebody … anybody … give me back my oestrogen.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Well – of course, no-one IS going to give my oestrogen back to me so I had better get used to behaving in the bizarre fashion that has been MY norm for the past couple of months.<span style=""> </span>And whilst I’m getting used to it, my husband had better get used to it, too.<span style=""> </span>I have no idea why I go upstairs, then have to come back downstairs to remember why I’d gone upstairs in the first place.<span style=""> </span>I really and truly don’t forget to switch on the oven on purpose (although possibly a room with an oven switched on in it is not exactly the right place for me just now) – and, anyway, salads are healthy so he should just shut up.<span style=""> </span>I find bed the most unappealing place on earth and not only when he’s actually at home – but the idea of having a duvet over me when the Hot Flush Fairy visits is an entirely abhorrent thought altogether.<span style=""> </span>I don’t know WHY I insisted on purchasing a Slanket whilst the Fairy is reigning supreme except there ARE moments when I suddenly feel freezing cold and wrapping myself in a Slanket seems like a very logical thing to do when these rare moments occur – but then, of course, I have to muster the energy to sling the Slanket off when the Fairy bids me so to do.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">My lovely Ma did eventually stop wandering around the house in summer clothes in deep mid-winter … I can’t remember how many deep mid-winters it took her to stop doing it but I know that she did.<span style=""> </span>I wonder for how long I will be in this phase?<span style=""> </span>I wish someone could give me the answer because, in rare moments of lucidity, I do actually recognise that I am going as barmy as a cartload of monkeys and I would truly like it to stop.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Excuse me now, please.<span style=""> </span>I have to go and wander around the garden in my nightdress.<span style=""> </span>It is raining and blowing a gale out there but if I’m quick, I might be able to leave the Hot Flush Fairy out there and dash back in feeling ever so slightly cooler.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-29722818655882704562010-06-22T02:19:00.004+01:002010-06-23T10:51:31.488+01:00The Longest Day<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">What a very long day this has been and, because sleep is completely eluding me tonight, light has rolled into darkness and is almost about to become light again, it seems that 21st June truly IS the longest day & it appears to have some sort of grudge against me!<br /><br />Followers on Twitter will have seen me refer to “Fanny in the Corner” ... Fanny (clearly not her real name) is the spinster daughter of my favourite, now long dead, great aunt – she is 80 years old and, when we used to live in Catatonia by the Sea, she used to visit us about three or four times a year. The visits were meant to last about a week but one week usually became two and two often became four. She’s a sweet old dear and was really no trouble at all. She lives in London and, since moving here, I’m ashamed to say that we actually see considerably less of her now that we live in London too than ever we did when we were on the South coast. Just after we moved to London, Fanny had a fall and had a stroke. She’s been in and out of hospital ever since. Her patch is North West London and we now live in Essex. Getting to North West London on a frequent basis is something that just doesn’t happen. I heard yesterday that despite living in a really excellent care home she’s had yet another fall and is, once again, back in hospital.<br /><br />Twitter friends will also have seen me refer to “Doddery Dave” who is my 89 year old father and whom, rather guiltily, I left in Catatonia when we moved to London. He knew the circumstances of our move ... and, being a very good Grandpa, fully understood and approved of a change of school for his grandson. Since we moved he, too, has been in and out of hospital. He suffers from Parkinson’s Disease and leukaemia and is a very, very frail old gentleman. Getting to see him is even more problematic than traversing London to get to see Fanny.<br /><br />Doddery Dave actually spent all last week with us – I’ve managed to arrange that he will move into a super sheltered flat very nearby at the end of next month and he had to come to London to sign papers and set up the date of his move. He will be sad to leave Catatonia but is happy at the prospect of once again being closer to his family. I am an only child and son is his only grandchild. He misses my son a great deal.<br /><br />I took him back to Catatonia on Saturday and called him on Sunday to check that he was okay. He wasn’t at home but, as he has a “lady friend” (who would see him more frequently than he prefers if she could) and usually goes out for Sunday lunch with her, I wasn’t unduly concerned. I should have been. He hadn’t been out to lunch, he’d fallen over and had been admitted to hospital. The hospital didn’t contact me and nor did his lady friend – until today. A good part of the day has been spent in receiving calls from aforementioned lady friend who has been intent on telling me what a bad daughter I am. I needed that ... like a hole in the head!<br /><br />When not receiving accusatory calls, I've spent the day on the ‘phone to two different hospitals, trying to find out how my aged relatives are. It would be a very welcome simplicity to just hop in the car & go and see them but I have a son who attends school and a husband who flits off to Europe every three minutes. Getting to see aged relatives isn’t simple at all.<br /><br />I feel absolutely miserable and I truly don’t know what to do – so, instead of sleeping, I thought I’d tell you about it all.<br /><br />I will aim to write about something more cheerful in my next blog. </span></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-56374923688781592602010-06-16T17:03:00.004+01:002010-06-16T17:22:09.074+01:00Grown-up Live Tweeting - The Value of Journalism Conference<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Last Friday, with many collies wobbling in my tummy, I did something I hadn’t done for a very long time ... I went out to work.<br /><br />I was on the tube by 8.00am, dressed like a grown-up, carrying lapdog in case and was even wearing make-up.<br /><br />Where did I go to? The LSE ... where I had been told to say on arrival, “I’m with the BBC” which would lead to instant access to the lecture theatres in the bowels of the earth somewhere under Holborn. It had been such a long time since I’d said “I’m with the BBC”. The words still have a nice ring to them.<br /><br />I was to “live blog” at the conference on “<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/valueofjournalism/">The Value of Journalism</a>” run by the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/">BBC College of Journalism</a> in conjunction with <a href="http://www.polismedia.org/news/newsdetail/the-value-of-journalism.aspx">POLIS</a> (headed up by <a href="http://www.charliebeckett.org/">Charlie Beckett</a>) at the LSE. I was positioned at the very front of the Sheik Zayed Theatre and then due to an unannounced gremlin, the live blogging programme wouldn’t load correctly. I was asked by Jon Jacobs (known to his many Twitter followers as <a href="http://twitter.com/thoroughlygood">@thoroughlygood</a>) to <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=voj10">live tweet</a> the event.<br /><br />My usual position for tweeting is on my sofa. If I look up I can either see a wall or the television. If I look to my left, if my husband’s around, I can see a snarling face and hear the words “Twitter is a thief of time” uttered as often as I care to listen to him. Live tweeting at the conference was very, very different. If I looked up I could see the panel of journalists about whom I was tweeting – and, terrifyingly, some of them actually smiled and nodded at me. If I glanced to my right, I could see what I was tweeting on a very large screen which – if I’d have had time to think – may have caused apoplexy but I was too busy listening, paraphrasing and trying to reduce some very erudite statements and arguments into snippets of 140 characters or less.<br /><br />I wobbled beforehand but didn’t really have time to wobble during. I had wished beforehand that I hadn’t managed to dye my hair an Adams’ Family shade of jet black and that I hadn’t lost my right contact lens two days prior to the conference. Naturally, everyone would notice the middle aged biddy with jet black hair squinting lopsidedly into her reading glasses as opposed to paying any attention whatsoever to the journalists on the stage. The only thing that did make my stomach churn on the actual day was seeing live tweets from some very sensible names. My heart sank when I realised that I should really be known as @hardnosedjourno on Twitter rather than @RedMummy which didn’t really seem to sound grown-up enough for the task in hand. I didn’t have time to worry about it for too long.<br /><br />Prior to the event, I asked one or two trusted friends if they thought I’d be “up to it” – one suggested that the people at the conference would be able to spot a fraud a mile off and the other thought it would be quite good fun if I didn’t enjoy what was being said as, apparently, my blogs/tweets are funnier when I’m grumpy. So helpful ... both pieces of advice instilled me with huge bursts of confidence!<br /><br />How much trouble could I get into if I just stated what the people on the stage were saying? These people know what they're talking about ... Jon Snow, Janine Gibson, Danny Finkelstein, Steve Hewlett, Rory Cellan-Jones inter alia ... all well-respected journalists - how could I possibly go wrong? Well, as I was tweeting under my own name, I seemed to get into a fair bit of trouble with a few of my own followers who were somewhat bombarded by many tweets with the #voj10 hash tag. I did open tweet that I was live tweeting from a conference but had little option but to wave them cheerfully on their way when they unfollowed me. Oh dear ... how will I EVER survive without them?<br /><br />It was a fascinating day and a very tiring one. I can’t remember concentrating quite as hard as that – well, since the last time I concentrated as hard as that. Would I do it again? Oh yes. I’m just waiting for someone to ask me!<br /><br />Husband – of course – still considers that Twitter is “a thief of time” and says I should get a “proper” job. What he means is that I should get a job that someone pays me to do. Well ... I guess, on that level, he has a point – but oh heck – it felt good to be back amongst media people again. One freebie day can’t have done too much harm, can it? The very worst thing that could happen because of it would be for him to divorce me.<br /><br />Now scanning job pages in local press for work as cashier in supermarket!</span> </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-38656234021553074282010-05-30T17:11:00.003+01:002010-06-02T23:05:52.310+01:00The Bar Mitzvah<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Well, after a year of quite intensive studying involving the reading of a language with an entirely different alphabet from our own and the singing of it too, my son’s Bar Mitzvah is now IN THE PAST.<br /><br />He started studying for it when we lived in Bournemouth with a very good and very religious friend of the family and he seemed to take to both the reading and the singing as a duck to water. He made rapid and excellent progress. Then we moved to London where I arranged for him to continue his studies with a local teacher who had an entirely different method of teaching from our friend in Bournemouth.<br /><br />Son is an honest young man and when I asked him if he was practising he assured me that he was ... and, indeed, he had been – except he was practising in an entirely different way from the way in which he had been practising in Bournemouth.<br /><br />My son is disadvantaged by having a techno-numpty for a mother ... had I have given any sensible thought to the situation, I would have got hooked up to Skype rather sooner than I have done and my son and his Bournemouth teacher could have continued studying in the way that would have been helpful to him on the day of his actual Bar Mitzvah. I didn’t.<br /><br />About a month ago, we became Skyped. (Is that a valid expression? It’ll do). And that’s when son, Bournemouth friend of family and I all became aware that there were some fairly hefty gaps in what son needed to know.<br /><br />I didn’t cancel the weekly lessons with the local London teacher ... it would have seemed rather churlish to do so as a great deal of effort had been made by both him and my son, but I did request that various segments be practised in rather more depth than they had been. Local London teacher’s ego appeared to kick in and he seemed to object.<br /><br />Friendly Bournemouth teacher to the rescue ... son and he Skyped every evening for the past month and son once again was “up to scratch”.<br /><br />And the Bar Mitzvah, which was yesterday back in Bournemouth, was WONDERFUL. Son sang clearly, tunefully and even managed to give a most confident and humorous speech afterwards to the assembled friends and family. Happy son, proud parents ... I believe son was particularly chuffed with techno-numpty mother who’d decided that the grey in her hair needed covering up a day before HIS great day, bought brown hair colour instead of mid-brown and left it on her hair for far too long whilst talking to best friend on ‘phone resulting in her husband referring to her as the mother from the Adams’ Family and son thinking it was quite cool that she looked like a Goth.<br /><br />And today the mother with the Goth-like hair (who is still so proud of her son in having done so well despite having studied for one big day in two places with two different teachers with two changes of home and a change of school intervening) is attempting to get over the past year’s step back from reality and we are once again talking about Darwin as opposed to the Creation. Son’s looking forward to his party which will take place next month and I suppose the next big hurdle will be GCSEs. I’ll need even darker hair dye for those! </span></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-63372614488088591612010-05-05T00:43:00.003+01:002010-05-05T00:53:02.622+01:00BBC "Over the Rainbow" Singing Event<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Several weeks ago, I applied for tickets to a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sing/dorothy/">BBC Over the Rainbow Singing Event</a> ... last week, I found out that my application had been successful and I received two tickets to attend the Shaftesbury Theatre in London.<br /><br />My son wasn’t “overly keen” on the whole idea – his tastes tend toward Gogol Bordello and Bruce Springsteen rather than stage musicals but, as Shaftesbury Avenue is not only in the heart of London’s Theatreland but also home to his favourite shop – Forbidden Planet – he agreed to accompany me.<br /><br />The events are a way of attempting to get the public singing ... because singing is such a thoroughly uplifting experience.<br /><br />The “Over the Rainbow” band (yes ... the same one that backs the Dorothys was on stage, the show was introduced by Tim Steiner, three of the Dorothys made an appearance, the BBC Singers undertook the task of getting the audience to sing and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Prenger">Jodie Prenger</a> (who’d won the BBC’s previous collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber and had just completed a run as Nancy in “Oliver” ... which we’d been to see last year when Omid Djalili was playing Fagin) was on stage, too.<br /><br />... And we sang! It was a MARVELLOUS evening ... and even my son whose leanings are STILL towards Gogol Bordello and Bruce Springsteen declared the evening to have been terrific fun.<br /><br />Singing IS good for a body. We should all do more of it! It doesn’t matter too much if one can sing or not – just do it. It makes you feel happy!</span> </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-91456573381545668302010-04-19T03:47:00.005+01:002010-04-23T14:17:29.230+01:00A Rant about "America's Medicated Children"<div align="justify">I watched BBC2’s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s56gx/Louis_Theroux_Americas_Medicated_Kids/">“America’s Medicated Kids”</a> presented by Louis Theroux on the iPlayer last night and whilst I wasn’t unsurprised at what I saw, <em>(Why make a programme about medicated kids if there isn’t what we as “normal people” would believe to be a problem?)</em> I was enormously saddened by the fact that the very first thing parents and doctors in the USA turn to, if they have a child whom THEY perceive as being different or difficult, is medication.<br /><br />I was, as I always am when watching his programmes, incredibly impressed by Louis Theroux’s ability to handle so vast a subject so sensitively and manage to condense it into a 59 minute programme. How he manages to speak to such stupid, stupid people and keep his cool, I will never know. The more I watched these selfish people, who find rearing children just a little bit too difficult, the more I wanted to hit them.<br /><br />The most salient line of the programme was, for me, the gentle reminder Louis gave to the viewer about just how much power parents have over their children. Something I am ever conscious of as a mother. I have Philip Larkin’s <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178055">“This Be the Verse”</a> pinned to the notice board in my office to remind me every single day not to mess around with my child’s head – because I could if I wanted to ... so can all parents – but why on earth would we?<br /><br />How DARE these inadequate people place the calm-running of their own lives above what is actually best for their children. Is it the US culture that causes this? I suspect there are many parents in most countries who would take the easy option of having a drugged child to manipulate and mould to their own convenience, if they could – but we were only privy to US parents in Theroux’s programme.<br /><br />I wonder what makes these people decide that a boisterous 6 year old, a pre-pubescent 11 year old boy and a girl of 15 who is patently full of hormones need MEDICATING. They need parents who will give them some time, who will listen to them and interact with them ... not pills.<br /><br />Rant over. I probably need to have my blood pressure checked. It feels as if it’s sky high just now. </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-87355446252473115522010-04-16T01:42:00.003+01:002016-09-19T10:24:05.390+01:00Thou Shalt Not Wear Crocs<div align="justify">
The too, too long Easter holidays are over and I am learning that living within walking distance of son’s school brings with it new responsibilities and rules ... commandments that – according to son – I am breaking every day.<br />
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Son, it would be fair to say, has the road sense of a three toed sloth ... basically NO idea of left, right, roads, zebra crossings or anything at all that would aid his staying alive on the way to school or on the way back. For this reason, we decided that for this week and this week only, we would walk him to and from school – or at least walk with him until he could see the gates and that we could see him go through them (naturally, from a respectful distance).<br />
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It is absolutely verboten to kiss son on saying goodbye to him ... although this is a rule that HE forgets and lifts face up for a quick peck before zooming towards the school entrance to join his friends.<br />
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I’ve been using the short walk to meet him in the afternoon as an opportunity to take the dog out for a brief trot. It is on these occasions that I have learnt that the wearing of Crocs is a heinous crime and a cause of massive embarrassment to son who has worked out a way of walking directly in front of me so that none of his friends who happen to glance at the pavement will be able to see what I’m wearing on my feet. Of course, I trip over him and the dog and far more attention is drawn to us than would otherwise be the case.<br />
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I am also told WHAT to wear and precisely how much make up to put on my face. I am living in Essex. However much make up I may slap on, I’m never going to present any real competition to the other mothers. I can only hope to be a pale and ghostly imitation.<br />
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I give up. I asked son if he would also like me to imitate the other Mums’ accents. He decided against that one but I have been requested not to speak at all.<br />
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As of Monday he will be walking to and from school on his own. I will be able to wear my Crocs, speak how I usually do and even go out without two tubes of slap on my face. I can barely wait. </div>
Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-76795944459810253612010-04-07T23:45:00.004+01:002010-04-07T23:48:55.514+01:00A Concise Crisis of Confidence<div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">I’ve just glanced at my blog and realise that I’ve been spasmodically scribbling for 13 months now. I wonder why I thought I could write.<br /><br />So much of what I’ve written seems trite, banal – even boring. Re-reading my self-conscious words, I wonder why I keep putting myself through this.<br /><br />There are certain things I know I want to say and certain things that, to misquote Donald Rumsfeld, “I know that I know” but why on earth would I have the temerity to think that anyone would want to read about any of it?<br /><br />I’ve had a too long break from writing “regularly” and my confidence seems to have completely deserted me ... not that there was much of it to start off with.<br /><br />My son keeps telling my husband that I’m a writer. I’ll stick with it for a while longer. I would hate to disappoint him and, anyway, I don’t really know what else I would do in its place.</span> </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-42333472114673978832010-04-02T03:30:00.014+01:002010-04-03T00:26:04.899+01:00Our house is a very, very, very ... err ... NICE house?<div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Well, after three months in the rented London Dungeon (a teeny, tiny flat that was more suited as a “pulling pad” for a single 35 year old male than it was for a family) and what has, for reasons many and varied, seemed to be the longest completion of a purchase EVER, we are – once again – installed in our own home. We are now, of course, noticing everything that’s wrong with the place. I don’t even know where to start to describe the ever-growing list of priorities that aren’t just frivolous desires but urgent imperatives.<br /><br />I’ve always thought I had the ability to see past other people’s ideas of décor when I view houses. I walk around thinking “yes, a loo can go in the cupboard under the stairs” and “I can fit an en suite in there” or “let me just rip this kitchen out and start again”. Not so much “Grand Designs” as “logical enhancements”. My viewing of this house was no exception ... but what I should have been doing was asking whether there was a combi-boiler, whether there were any leaks and if the shed at the bottom of the garden was lined with asbestos. I didn’t do any of that. So desperate was I to be away from the London Dungeon and so exhausted was I from driving 50 miles each day in rush hour traffic to get my son to and from his new school, I thought – THIS house is a 3 minute walk from the school and THIS is obviously where we must be.<br /><br />The house – in “estate agency speak” – is “inter-war”. It was built (or possibly propped up by the two houses either side of it, in its mid-terrace position) in 1929. It has, without doubt been “ahem” modernised ... I reckon probably sometime in the 1960s but – since then – only cosmetic changes have been made.<br /><br />Coat after coat of paint has been applied to each and every inside door – without ever a thought given to planing any of the wood off prior to repainting hence, apart from the door to the only toilet – which is upstairs, NONE of the other doors in the house actually close. At least two of us can be found most mornings going cross-eyed on the landing waiting for the third to exit the toilet. And ... when one of us is lucky enough to gain access to the toilet – these are what we get to look at!<br /><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7WyEOScquuvsydTTKH4GKxl_d46iMrmZ5s1G1aBrVjci9DRT-QuZ9rK6Xi3aKJPm-zFOkyJW82kIlzOIdLso1yrJl6Kw94h0iNKBtYlQDi1GJdrWcgoCgF2zIXIvAGAkUob95-KEcLg/s1600/Bathroom+tiles.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455363133808376546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7WyEOScquuvsydTTKH4GKxl_d46iMrmZ5s1G1aBrVjci9DRT-QuZ9rK6Xi3aKJPm-zFOkyJW82kIlzOIdLso1yrJl6Kw94h0iNKBtYlQDi1GJdrWcgoCgF2zIXIvAGAkUob95-KEcLg/s200/Bathroom+tiles.jpg" /> <p align="justify"></a><br />And we can look at them in the separate bathroom, too – wherein they cover the walls AND the ceiling!<br /><br />I like luxury as much as the next person – but REALLY is a downstairs loo “a luxury”? Not when you’re 53 years old, you’ve had your first child at the age of 41 and you completely forgot to do your pelvic floor exercises thereafter, it isn’t ... a downstairs loo is an absolute bl**dy necessity!<br /><br />The master bedroom isn’t a bad size and has elements of – if I lived in North West London – what I would call “Golders Green Gothic” about it ... but I don’t. I now live in Essex, so I believe the house’s current state of decoration could be termed “Barkingside Byzantine”.<br /><br />Oh yes ... every bedroom should have its very own chandelier ...<br /><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9TrMTd5C51eHn7o7csv1X7ToGugUWLOboSVXnl9gJhBVTapKf8CGu8cqB9TdG5ZX_EKTfn9LNKRy7CnwzFEdY4oQXEIL5ilB3VsRp5-D0OAlrFTyTY_MIDnKyiD2aDuICNwxihq-7474/s1600/Chandelier+in+bedroom.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455365917065713394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9TrMTd5C51eHn7o7csv1X7ToGugUWLOboSVXnl9gJhBVTapKf8CGu8cqB9TdG5ZX_EKTfn9LNKRy7CnwzFEdY4oQXEIL5ilB3VsRp5-D0OAlrFTyTY_MIDnKyiD2aDuICNwxihq-7474/s200/Chandelier+in+bedroom.jpg" /></a><br />and – naturally – covered radiators are the ultimate in good taste!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPf1J1jq1E0EPoOpS57y4QB1I5pq-tlQZwIOkncLbaRPVoUMYyMz9Qs1KD120K24iavmgedHVD8ZVWfiJBo8AldCuDCdVpaXkO0PNs_HpKCUvmCF3xSjVL6H521xat7412JCy_RGcmkM/s1600/Radiator+cover.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455366587852899746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPf1J1jq1E0EPoOpS57y4QB1I5pq-tlQZwIOkncLbaRPVoUMYyMz9Qs1KD120K24iavmgedHVD8ZVWfiJBo8AldCuDCdVpaXkO0PNs_HpKCUvmCF3xSjVL6H521xat7412JCy_RGcmkM/s200/Radiator+cover.jpg" /> <p align="justify"></a><br />My son has opted for the smallest bedroom ... he likes “cosy”. He certainly HAS cosy. And only about a third of his treasured possessions actually fit into the cosy little room. Never mind. He has overflowed into the spare room which has melamine-clad fitted wardrobes and very useful they are, too – they’re just not quite as “attractive” as the ones in the master bedroom which have the benefit of fake antique gold “stuff” stuck all over the place.<br /><br />But – that said – the master bedroom doesn’t have the benefit of an electric shower strategically placed in its corner which the spare room does have.<br /><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvavJWqWZA83Pjaw_jO0I_sjvH3_FVRez90IA-w9vj596Y30HO3t4tKqmFYs_f57JqyHpXQoccP126JIdb4bd2Fpo8dciQNnaAYrzWe97GpvuZwnl3stIdeshxAG7OB5YdhhHgfbrF6k/s1600/Shower+in+corner+of+spare+room.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455367243568618562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvavJWqWZA83Pjaw_jO0I_sjvH3_FVRez90IA-w9vj596Y30HO3t4tKqmFYs_f57JqyHpXQoccP126JIdb4bd2Fpo8dciQNnaAYrzWe97GpvuZwnl3stIdeshxAG7OB5YdhhHgfbrF6k/s200/Shower+in+corner+of+spare+room.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="justify">Of course, what would only improve both the master bedroom and the spare room would be some of these:</div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdd6mmtmOb2ylgEfn-SRzIzmhj_V5VAJFpU4M9YD7xf6rZH9-whNpnh0GQ8p5InESmjuWmFLx5jvk8KIovN4PXVWq1fRPaW1O0KTCNQ47phcaNXLzg3WzLhRAod776RSLiBhX_jpxfoak/s1600/Wall+Light.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455367844821612738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdd6mmtmOb2ylgEfn-SRzIzmhj_V5VAJFpU4M9YD7xf6rZH9-whNpnh0GQ8p5InESmjuWmFLx5jvk8KIovN4PXVWq1fRPaW1O0KTCNQ47phcaNXLzg3WzLhRAod776RSLiBhX_jpxfoak/s200/Wall+Light.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><p align="justify">... very Barkingside Byzantine and scattered liberally throughout the through sitting and dining room!<br /><br />I avoid looking at them too much because they make me itch to rip them off the walls.<br /><br />Where do I start? And – in describing – for fear of boring you ... where do I stop?<br /><br />Outside, we have a thingy that is corroded and leaks. </p><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNMSarmHs1vVTiFca2YSJToTvZtfndy6ce38oTbE-RQ5F01_Ku-vJkluvFgw779DPk1d8B44VBd-PIeZiWT87tIkdSMNzp_eT2ODhhCeyAR2P1p-AeE0NH-cLo_TM1UOhugEcThUzwFKk/s1600/Corroded+thingy.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455368734544527266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNMSarmHs1vVTiFca2YSJToTvZtfndy6ce38oTbE-RQ5F01_Ku-vJkluvFgw779DPk1d8B44VBd-PIeZiWT87tIkdSMNzp_eT2ODhhCeyAR2P1p-AeE0NH-cLo_TM1UOhugEcThUzwFKk/s200/Corroded+thingy.jpg" /></a><br />I don’t know what sort of a thingy it is but it looks most ominous and I think something ought to be done about it very quickly.<br /><br />We also have one of these ...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ9ISJFYOs0RSbej29iXf9lenO1cCIlHrxy1R2WRgbuxJ3AJCLoaGysbwVhH36sxgEHbR6VOgqAmjSSWGQbv45HkrkqxX9EzPX6ZC8QixnuvjVcY4oWRkKtJL5mHoh4z38bRlZ1nCx6cM/s1600/Top+of+pipe+going+nowhere.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455369418667377026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ9ISJFYOs0RSbej29iXf9lenO1cCIlHrxy1R2WRgbuxJ3AJCLoaGysbwVhH36sxgEHbR6VOgqAmjSSWGQbv45HkrkqxX9EzPX6ZC8QixnuvjVcY4oWRkKtJL5mHoh4z38bRlZ1nCx6cM/s200/Top+of+pipe+going+nowhere.jpg" /></a><br /></p><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NvSGe1ukU61Q0UAStN2in1Yt9VJkiXAo2IyeKl44QgzS01ay-erVhCqF3yjHcAQQaqSF9EaDsgNh8mT-jAgm26UCldx9kq3-KUrUjmckfHxjT3UbfkTpW6ZnoEGTjI8iuTwUbH4_3f8/s1600/Bottom+of+pipe+going+nowhere.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455369413128833762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NvSGe1ukU61Q0UAStN2in1Yt9VJkiXAo2IyeKl44QgzS01ay-erVhCqF3yjHcAQQaqSF9EaDsgNh8mT-jAgm26UCldx9kq3-KUrUjmckfHxjT3UbfkTpW6ZnoEGTjI8iuTwUbH4_3f8/s200/Bottom+of+pipe+going+nowhere.jpg" /></a><br />... which is open to the elements at both ends and I would dearly like to pull it off the wall (and then hit the vendor and the estate agent with it ... after I’ve hit myself – of course – for having been completely STUPID).<br /><br />I desperately need a job to supplement the income from our business in order to start putting into action the many, many, MANY things that need doing to this silly little house – and that’s not going to be easily achievable!<br /><br />And of course, there are sadnesses ... our darling German Shepherd (who was too large and too bouncy to live in a size-challenged house that the sale of a property in Catatonia deemed was all we could afford in the outskirts of the capital) is no longer with us but having a whale of a time in 3 acres of land in Kent.<br /><br />For all of the sadnesses and inconveniences, I am once again sitting on my own comfy sofa rather than the concrete couch that nearly broke my back in the London Dungeon. I have a fat Westie snuggled up to my right and an aging black cat snuggled up to my left. That HAS to be fine ... poor old moggy was used to living in the shed in our old house and is now able to spend his twilight years inside as a lapcat.<br /><br />I like living in Essex! I never thought I would, but after three months of living in the environs of where the London Dungeon was situated, I find Essex friendly ... and it’s wonderful to be within walking distance of a very cosmopolitan High Street. We're quite close to BNP heartland so, I have great pleasure in thumbing my nose at Nick Griffin because I LIKE THE MIX!<br /><br />I’m enjoying using my own cooking utensils again – now crammed into a too, too small kitchen, and the smell of the first home-made chicken soup bubbling on the hob ready for Friday night in three months is a plus! There are some things that are absolutely okay about my world – and, of course, the very best okay bit is the fact that I have a happy kid. His education and the way he talks about his new school make every single inconvenience pale into total insignificance.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br />We are HOME. </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-67100720456179477252010-02-28T09:29:00.005+00:002010-02-28T09:37:15.892+00:00Please bear with me ... I'm getting there!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlaF4oirJb0h6tnTc7J3j68iLEVQOe6Qfuj8zINzbatPwV7QRcywdN2_f8Amp1aJOkylK-nG-3oLwaB2Da_qtl18_N5m6Sq1bC256ozJrcDIq-z2x30FtE3a_oPJel1xYnqErDUW9_l0/s1600-h/sitting+bear.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443225159533944402" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlaF4oirJb0h6tnTc7J3j68iLEVQOe6Qfuj8zINzbatPwV7QRcywdN2_f8Amp1aJOkylK-nG-3oLwaB2Da_qtl18_N5m6Sq1bC256ozJrcDIq-z2x30FtE3a_oPJel1xYnqErDUW9_l0/s200/sitting+bear.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">I’m very conscious of the fact that it has been a very long time since I last wrote a blog. I’ve WANTED to write a blog ... it’s not like I haven’t got anything to say – I have and that’s the problem! I have rather too much to say and - due to the ongoing, rather strange and very stressful circumstances that I’m living through at the moment - it’s probably wiser that I don’t say ANY of it!<br /><br />How does the expression “a still tongue in a wise head” translate to blogging in the 21st Century? It doesn’t – easily – and as the word “wise” never really sits comfortably in the same sentence as the word “me”, the premise isn’t too relevant just now anyway! “Sensibly still fingertips at the end of madly gyrating arms belonging to a body with a very puzzled head on its shoulders” is awkward terminology and makes me sound like a human windmill but it’s probably a more accurate description of the rather dark and miserable place that I’m occupying just now.<br /><br />So, for the moment, please forgive me but I’m keeping rather quiet. I <em>shall</em> return and I <em>will</em> write what I really do <strong><em>have</em></strong> to say. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"> </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><br /></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-33646924943762207822010-01-13T11:41:00.003+00:002010-01-13T12:32:07.303+00:00NEW YEAR - ALL CHANGE!<div align="justify">Well, here we are in London ... well in the outskirts of the capital at any rate. My son’s first day at his new school was last Tuesday – rapidly followed by two days off due to the inclement weather conditions (which didn’t actually stop US from getting there but “Health & Safety issues” made it necessary to close the school for fear that children may have thrown a few snowballs at each other).<br /><br />He was rather circumspect after his first day ... he’d been off school since I removed him from the Arts & Media College in Bournemouth in November 2009 and, to be honest, I think ANY school would have been anathema after that length of time. He’s been partaking of private maths tuition and his Ma’s slightly deranged take on home education since I withdrew him from the Bournemouth school. I’m not <em>exactly</em> sure how much he’s learnt over the past couple of months but he’s now not quite as fearful of dealing with all things numeric as he used to be, he knows all about The Goon Show and can sing “The Ying Tong Song” very well indeed.<br /><br />I was VERY edgy about his reticence after his first day and you can only imagine how relieved I was when I collected him on his second day (which turned out to be last Friday) when he was grinning from ear to ear and telling me how much he’d enjoyed himself, how great the teachers were and how puzzled he was that two young ladies had asked him out. I am blessed with a son who’s neither aware of how handsome he is, nor how cool. He was very bemused indeed that anyone of the opposite sex would be interested in a “nerd” such as he thinks he is!<br /><br />He had homework to do over the weekend and even set about that with gusto. I expect the novelty will wear off soon and we will settle into a less excited routine but how very good it is to have a kid who can’t wait to get to school each day.<br /><br />The house is all but sold in Bournemouth – we’re due to complete by the end of this month and, not being a great one for “hanging around”, we’ve already found a house very close to his new school indeed and have had our offer accepted on it. Hopefully we should be installed therein by the end of February which will be marvellous ... the house is truly nothing special – just a three bedroomed, solid, terraced family home – but how good it will be to move out of the tiny rented flat we’ve been in since the first day of the year and once again be able to have our “own” stuff around us. It will also be very good <em>not</em> to have to travel 48 miles each day on 2 school runs!<br /><br />My last blog <a href="http://redmummyrambleson.blogspot.com/2009/11/lunatics-are-running-asylum.html">"The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum"</a> attracted a great deal of publicity thanks to that ever-delightful and kindest of Tweeters, Stephen Fry, but - inspite of hearing responses to it from the Headmaster of my son's previous school and a representative of a large teaching union on the BBC's "South Today" and on Radio Solent - I still have had not ONE word of explanation nor an apology for the mismanagement of my son's education at that school ... other than the Union representative stating during his interview that my blog had not been "helpful" to the "professionals". Oh, I am SO very sorry ... would that these "professionals" had have been "helpful" to my son!<br /><br />So, we’ve had a tumultuous few months – an emotional roller coaster during which there have been many occasions when I’ve questioned the logic of the decisions I’ve made and the decisions following the “big decision” haven’t been easy at all. We’ve sadly had to have our much loved big dog re-homed as it just wasn’t feasible to bring her with to London; we’ve had to up sticks and move from a very comfortable home indeed firstly to a rented, furnished flat; we’re still coming to terms with the implications that moving may have for our business and a lot of time is spent HOPING that trade will be as good as or better for us in London than it was in Bournemouth – but the main thing is we have a son who is now enjoying going to school and is getting the sort of education that every kid deserves to have. And THAT is worth all the doubts, fears, uncertainties and soul-searching.<br /><br /></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-18817069271129462009-11-25T16:52:00.005+00:002009-11-25T16:56:46.539+00:00THE LUNATICS ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM<div align="justify">There is a school in Bournemouth which was, until a few years ago, a “Boys’ School”. It didn’t have a very good reputation – and deservedly so.<br /><br />Then it changed its name. It became an Arts and Media College – and some of us “fell for it”. I am the proud mother of a hugely artistic son. I’m not proud for pride’s sake. My boy is very talented and has been published. He lives, eats, drinks and breathes art – it is quite simply “who he is”.<br /><br />When the time came, a couple of years ago, for us to choose his secondary school, his father and I scratched our heads and worried a great deal. Bournemouth is rather better known for catering to an aged population than it is for its merits in either primary or secondary education. It would have been a “nice thought” to have my son crammed for the Grammar School entrance examination. He isn’t very good at Maths. The thought crossed our minds but I worried about what would happen when the “cramming” ended – and, to be honest, the Grammar School isn’t “grounded” in the Arts and our son needed a place that would help him to channel his talents.<br /><br />I “did” the Open Day circuit and ultimately decided that the school that had the best facilities for an artistic kid was the one called an “Arts and Media College”. Everything that a child with a leaning towards the arts would need was PHYSICALLY there. I couldn’t fault the Arts studios, the state of the art drama and stage equipment nor, indeed, did the Radio studio seem to be too out of date.<br /><br />My son started at the Arts and Media College at the beginning of Year 7 in September 2008. And the dream ended.<br /><br />He was SO excited on the morning of his first day. The occasion was special enough for both his father and I to take him there – he was just a bit nervous ... but so was I on my first day at “big school” and who wouldn’t be? It wouldn’t seem to be quite right walking into a new environment cocksure and brimming with abundant confidence, would it? But some kids did. His father and I sat in our car watching what seemed to be a very vulnerable little boy walk in – thankfully – with a friend from primary school who’d arrived at the same time – but other boys hurtled in, charged in, blustered in and barged in – were they older children? No – the first day of each school year is for Year 7 children alone.<br /><br />When I collected him in the afternoon, my son was quiet. I asked how the day had gone and he told me that he was in a class with only one other boy he’d known from primary school and most of the other boys in the class seemed rough, unfriendly and “bullish”. Some of them had older brothers at the school – they, apparently, were the ones who were the roughest.<br /><br />Day 2 was less “special” than day 1 and on collecting him when school finished, I have to say that I actually felt quite intimidated by the raw, pubescent aggression that tumbled out of the building at 3 o’clock. My son, when he got into the car, was even quieter than he had been the day before.<br /><br />Fast forward 18 months.<br /><br />Every school day for the past academic year and a half my son has PLEADED with me to be allowed to stay at home. And every morning, I felt as if I was being the worst mother on earth by insisting that he WAS, indeed, going to school. If only I could have been just slightly reassured on collecting him each afternoon – but I wasn’t. Each day, it seemed that worse things were happening to him. He is a child who likes to learn. He is eager for knowledge. Each day, his “legal right” to a decent education seemed to be a completely alien concept for the members of staff at the Arts & Media College to get to grips with.<br /><br />I am not, by nature, a molly-coddler. I know EXACTLY who my son is. He’s an artistic kid but no angel – quite capable of naughtiness and there are bits of me that punch the air in glee about that. I was no “angel” at school, myself ... fortunately I had an “air of innocence” that got me out of many a scrape.<br /><br />He is an artistic child – not a wimpish one. He has a tendency to be a “thinker” and one who tries to rationalise the actions of those around him. I can’t blame him for doing that ... I don’t know whether it’s right or wrong, but I do it myself.<br /><br />He has spent the last 18 months trying to rationalise the actions of lunatics – and for his efforts in so doing, he – as one of the more studious children at his school, was shouted at by his teachers when he required explanation about a lesson because his “teachers” – who often weren’t teachers at all, but teaching assistants, were so busy trying to keep the levels of aggression down in their classes and the “easiest” kids to shout at were the ones who wouldn’t shout back.<br /><br />In 18 months, my son had 5 pieces of homework. Not 5 pieces of homework per night or per week. No; just 5 pieces of homework during his ENTIRE time at the school. There were some subjects in which he never had the same teacher for two consecutive lessons. The school appeared to be staffed by supply teachers and under-qualified teaching assistants. How wrong of me, I am leaving out members of staff who seem to have strange titles such as “Achievement Coordinators”. Their role, it would seem, is to smooth things over when the crowd control of the supply teachers and the teaching assistants fails to work properly. They don’t actually seem to do much about “achievement” at all. And I mustn’t forget the congenial Acting Headmaster whom, if a parent writes to him, fails to respond unless nagged ... rather a lot. On the last occasion when I wrote to him, I did – after many enquiries about whether I was going to get a reply – actually receive a ‘phone call from him.<br /><br />He told me that the two days I’d requested for my son to be absent from school were authorised and that he’d had a very amiable chat with him about the various and very real grievances that I had written about. He also told me that he intended “consulting” my son on a frequent and regular basis because it was very useful for him to know what was happening in Year 8. I pinched myself quite hard and, with as much dignity as I could muster, asked him if it was not HIS job to know what was going on in his school with the help of the teaching staff rather than relying on a pupil to tell him of such. The fact that the pupil was my son is neither here nor there but the “legal right of a child to a good education” should not, in my opinion, include being a “lookout” for the Acting Headmaster.<br /><br />Well, at least I was safe in the knowledge that the two days that my son would be absent from school had been authorised by the “man (not very) in charge”. I was stunned to receive a letter from one of the “Achievement Coordinators” a few weeks later asking me to justify why my son had been absent as his absence had NOT been authorised. I responded in writing, citing my conversation with the Acting Headmaster and expressing disbelief at the communication between the various staffing departments within the school. I delivered the letter by hand to the school one morning after dropping my son off. I saw (with my own eyes as opposed to borrowed ones) the School Receptionist open my letter. I heard no more until 10 days ago when I received a curtly worded text from the school DEMANDING that I give them an explanation for my son’s UNAUTHORISED absences. I blew.<br /><br />During his 18 months at the Arts & Media College with really very excellent facilities for an artistic child, my son has been subjected to physical bullying and appalling mental intimidation. I do not believe he has learnt anything at all. I drove – with my husband – to the school and exercised my right as a parent to take him out of there. I asked to see the Acting Headmaster but he was apparently in a Disciplinary Meeting. Why wasn’t I, in the least, surprised? Instead, I was apologised to by two “Achievement Coordinators” who sent a timid looking boy (whose education appeared to comprise being at the beck and call of the School Receptionist) to get my son. My son arrived in Reception and I asked him to go and collect his PE kit. He did – and WE TOOK HIM HOME.<br /><br />I am home educating him until the end of this term and next term he starts at a new school in London. It doesn’t have “Arts” or “Media” in its name – it doesn’t have to ... it has a reputation for absolutely no bullying at all, an ethos of celebration of children’s achievements and very close ties to Chelsea Art School. Well done, LEA – we are selling up and taking a severe downgrading in housing and monetary well-being because you are unable to provide our child with his legal right to a decent education.<br /><br />A few weeks ago, I read in the Bournemouth Echo that a great deal of money had been allocated to refurbish schools in the Dorset area. Hello! LEA – are you listening? Get a load of this:<br /><br />You do not need to refurbish school buildings. You need to spend every available penny that you have on employing some decent teachers who aren’t afraid to take charge of the children in your care, provide those who need discipline with it and impart your knowledge to those children who want to learn rather than shout at them, because they’re the kids who you know very well “won’t answer back”. You need to be in charge of the asylum – because currently, the lunatics are running the show and you are NOT – repeat NOT – providing the children in your care with their legal right to a decent education. You do, dear LEA need to get your act together. </div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com168tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-90899929093384958372009-11-05T11:27:00.003+00:002009-11-05T11:42:39.948+00:00Fish and Visitors<div align="justify"><em>This article was first published by </em><a href="http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/blogs/redmummy/4703039.Fish_and_Visitors/"><em>The Bournemouth Echo</em></a><em> on 26th October 2009 and also by </em><a href="http://www.theblogpaper.co.uk/article/spam/26oct09/fish-and-visitors"><em>The Blog Paper</em></a><em> on the same date. </em></div><div align="justify"><em></em></div><div align="justify"><br /><br />Benjamin Franklin once said “Fish and visitors stink after three days”. I would agree with that.<br /><br />I have just had my aged, spinster cousin to stay for two weeks. I usually have her to stay two or three times a year “for a week” which invariably organically grows into a fortnight or three weeks. A fortnight, on this occasion, was at least (if I’d have actually taken note of the Franklin quote) eleven days too many. I returned her to her own home on Saturday and believe that if she’d have stayed just one day more, I would have had to have been sectioned.<br /><br />The people who follow me on Twitter were becoming used to my references to “Fanny in the corner”. My cousin’s name is not Fanny but it would have seemed rude to have used her real name – and, anyway, Fanny suits her. The line “Fanny in the corner” was, of course, on Twitter open to many interpretations – NONE of which did I understand!<br /><br />My cousin is a frighteningly skinny Fanny. I’m fairly convinced that the only time she eats a square meal is when she visits us although she insists that she is very independent, goes out shopping every day and “takes care of herself”. How, then, does she always manage to look healthier and heavier after her visits to us than she does when she arrives?<br /><br />She is very, very deaf and barely understands a word that anyone says to her – unless the word “food” is mentioned. Her ears suddenly clear at breakfast, lunchtime and at dinner. And although she doesn’t speak very clearly either these days, she speaks clearly enough to say “Oh, okay then” when I ask her if she’d like extra toast at breakfast time, two rounds of sandwiches rather than one at lunchtime and double portions of everything at dinner time.<br /><br />She doesn’t “do” much when she’s with us. She’s an early riser, enjoys a leisurely breakfast which “has to be digested” properly by sitting in her dressing gown in one corner of the sofa until at least 11.00am, after which she goes back upstairs to perform her ablutions. She manages to get back downstairs just in time for her two rounds of sandwiches at lunchtime.<br /><br />Several attempts at conversation are started but not finished. I am hoarse from responding to her fangled speech and however loudly I speak, it is never quite loudly enough. Fanny’s afternoons are spent “reading” which involves opening a book and then falling asleep and dribbling on the unturned page.<br /><br />When I start to prepare dinner, Fanny follows me into the kitchen and manages to stand exactly where I need to be at any one given point in time. I am not a patient person. After about ten minutes, I gently say to her ... “You’re on holiday – why don’t you go and sit down” which she does & falls asleep again until dinner is ready.<br /><br />After dinner, I think she enquires whether I’d like any help in clearing up in the kitchen. Last time I said “Yes”, she not only attempted to empty the scraps from the plates into the waste disposal but also the cutlery. These days, I say, “No, you’re on holiday – why don’t you just relax” – which she does, once again installing herself in the corner of the sofa.<br /><br />She is of the belief that as my son and I spend a fair deal of time on our own because my husband works away from home quite a lot, I am in need of adult company which means that she will stay up until I suggest that it’s “probably” her bedtime. She’s probably right ... I probably would appreciate a little adult company but she isn’t able to provide this as mainly, once the TV is switched on she, I think, tells me that she’s finding whatever happens to be on, very interesting and promptly falls asleep and dribbles on the open TV guide.<br /><br />Occasionally I ask her if she’s still interested in what we’re watching which causes her to sit bolt upright and tell me that she IS watching the television and that she’s NOT asleep, the exertions of which cause her to fall asleep again almost immediately. She does, however, wake up when I mention that I’m going to make a cup of tea and she also manages to speak clearly enough to respond to my enquiries regarding biscuits. The answer never varies – “Oh a few of the ones I had last night, would be nice”. Once refreshments have been consumed the sleeping and dribbling resume quite quickly again.<br /><br />At about midnight, I say to her that I’m thinking of going to bed. I am lying. I turn the television off & Fanny prepares to go upstairs. I am to be kissed goodnight. This isn’t a pleasant experience but a small price to pay to have my sofa to myself for an hour or two before I actually DO go to bed and, I can wash the dribbly kiss off in the downstairs loo once I can hear that she’s at the top of the stairs.<br /><br />I’m about the only member of my family who bothers with her and she does seem to enjoy her stays with us. But three days WOULD be enough and, at the risk of appearing on some Age Concern hit list, I’m prepared to admit that I am truly not a very nice person!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1728897616036072467.post-50652846905132263782009-10-26T17:08:00.003+00:002009-10-28T11:23:14.633+00:00How to Have a Really Good Evening<em>This article was first published on <a href="http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/blogs/redmummy/4689706.How_to_have_a_really_good_evening/">The Bournemouth Echo</a>'s website on 19th October 2009 and by <a href="http://www.theblogpaper.co.uk/article/culture/20oct09/how-have-really-good-evening">The Blog Paper</a> on 20th October 2009.</em><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">There are, of course, many and varied ways of having a good evening but I reckon the one that my son and I had yesterday would take some beating.<br /><br />It’s always a “good thing” to support a worthy cause ... in the current economic climate, it’s not always possible to do as much as one would like to – but if I have the opportunity to do “a little something”, then I do. Leukaemia Research is a charity very close to my heart – not least because my favourite cousin died of leukaemia in her early 30s just a month before my son was born, 12½ years ago.<br /><br />Last night, the Criterion Theatre in London’s Piccadilly Circus freely opened its doors to be taken over by Leukaemia Research to host “A Special Audience with Stephen Fry” preceded by a champagne reception for a few hundred lucky people. My son and I were amongst those lucky people.<br /><br />The Reception began at 6.30pm and prior to our National Treasure coming into the Reception, Alastair Campbell mingled and chatted amongst us. Alastair has supported the charity since his best friend, John Merritt, died of leukaemia and then tragically John’s daughter succumbed to the disease too. He’s a friendly man although – as an avid fan of Burnley Football Club – he was clearly distressed that “his” team had lost to Blackburn Rovers the day before. I hope that the Audience with Mr Fry went some way to cheering him up.<br /><br />Nigella Lawson was also at the Reception and was gracious enough to write a note to my husband who is a great fan of hers and willingly posed for a photograph with me and my son. She asked if my husband was keen on cookery programmes. Naturally my response was “Oh, yes”. It would have been infradig to have been more honest and to tell her that he has more prurient thoughts than cuisine on his mind when he sees her on television. She’s a beautiful, intelligent lady and has at least two more outstanding assets than just her culinary expertise. Mick Hucknall of Simply Red was there and didn’t seem too displeased when I told him that we liked his music. He was also kind enough to have his photograph taken with my son.<br /><br />Another guest was Ed Victor who is a very well known literary agent. I would very much have liked to have met him to tell him that I am, at least in my own not-so-humble opinion, an undiscovered literary genius but sadly I didn’t get the opportunity to meet him. I was, however, so pleased that he was there as – had it not have been for Leukaemia Research – he wouldn’t have been anywhere. Ten years ago, on the day of his 60th birthday, he was diagnosed with the disease and it was purely through the wonderful research funded by the charity that he survives in good health a decade on. It was Ed Victor’s idea to organise occasional “Special Audiences” with various celebrities in order to raise money for the charity.<br /><br />One person who I was lucky and privileged enough to meet was the original Calendar Girl. Not Julie Waters – who played her in the 2003 film – but the real life lady, Annie Clarke whose husband had died of leukaemia and who raises money for and, who with her friends, gave a great deal of “exposure” to the charity’s work.<br /><br />Shortly before 7.00pm, a very tall man appeared in the room. I’m sure that just about everyone in the UK (if not, since the advent of global sale of television programmes, the entire world) is aware that Stephen Fry is a witty, enormously intelligent, erudite speaker, talented actor and brilliant writer. Those attributes would be enough to make most people admire him. I do. I also LIKE him. He is kind, generous of nature, warm, friendly and has the most wonderful way of making everyone he speaks with feel as if they are really the most important person in the world to him. I was especially overwhelmed when my son (who was the very youngest person there), bravely and with great aplomb introduced himself to Mr Fry using his Twitter name – and Stephen, bless him, repeated his Twitter name and then greeted him, without ANY prompting whatsoever, using my son’s real life name. This man must have a memory the size of this planet! My son, who’s a talented young artist, gave a drawing he’d done of Stephen to him – at which point, the splendid Mr Fry knelt down and my son forgot to be grown-up, couldn’t help himself and gave this great, gentle man a hug. I chatted to Stephen for several minutes, easily fell prey to his delightful charms and hugs, kisses and photographs ensued.<br /><br />The actual show began at 8.00pm. It was an intimate “audience”. The BBC’s Alan Yentob interviewed Stephen about his life, his work, his likes and dislikes, his successes and his self-perceived failures. He was astonishingly open about his bi-polarity. He had the audience laughing and crying. Two hours passed in a flash and members of the audience were given the opportunity of asking questions. Stephen answered each question with characteristic humour, empathy, kindness and honesty.<br /><br />My son desperately wanted the chance of another chat with our National Treasure so, after the show, we went to the Stage Door. I managed to get my ‘phone’s camera muddled up with its video recorder so we now have a recorded moving memento of the evening.<br /><br />I’m rarely at a loss for words but I truly can’t find the right ones to impart how wonderful the evening was. Perhaps my son described it in exactly the right way ... “It was the best time I’ve ever, ever, EVER had”. I concur.<br /><br />If you ever have the chance of seeing Stephen on stage or of meeting him – do it! I can assure you that it really is a very good way of spending an evening.<br /><br />(If you’re interested in learning more about the wonderful work that Leukaemia Research enables, do – PLEASE – visit their website at <a href="http://www.lrf.org.uk/">http://www.lrf.org.uk/</a>)</div>Karen Redmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368078023802765569noreply@blogger.com2