Walking Thoughts

 David, lay on, his deathbed. His oldest daughter was dead. This  Made it safe for his youngest daughter to go and see him take his final breath. There was a huge unresolved question. She had asked it before, and his nastiness had put her off again. That was her last chance. « Tell me, before you die, when a gang of six men broke into our home and gang raped me as a child. Why did you do nothing. ? Why did you not seek medical care for me? Why did you not take me to the police? » You were not raped. He said. Openly shocked that her father would still be taking this line. This callous evil lie, even after all of this time she gaped in silent shock at the impossibility and I’m movability at the complete and absolute lack of any resolution possible.  He grunted nastilly with a gesture like head butt into the air, accomonied by a, triumphant, grunt. The gesture suggested triumph over a loser. But she was older now and more sure of herself. « What does that mean? « , she said....

 Grown men like 14-year-old girls. It’s not unusual for female students to take this path to gaining the necessary items they need to support themselves, food, clothes, textbooks. It’s just that once they are out of that situation they tend not to talk about it again.

 Sir Henry approached her “So tell me”, Henry asked, “what drove you study so extensively?” Dr Bigg blinked. “ I’ve never been asked that question before” she told Sir Henry. And she thought. She knows the answer and a song begins to play in my head;  “So where do you come from my lovely where do you go to when you’re alone in your bed? “ Reasons unbeknown to her, perhaps due to age balance menopause, who knows Torill chose to answer truthfully, “Interesting question. To me the past, feels like a book. I want to read one where I know the characters really well. But it’s not me.” My mother told me ‘get an education. It’s the one thing that they can never take from you.’ where I grew up was squalid and scary. There was a lot of violence I wanted to get out I wanted to leave I want to escape. Education seems an opportunity to do just that - a way out. When I was 13 Childline started, and I rang them in the hope that there could  be help for me, living in my dangerous, fright...

 meeting him, today and meeting him as a professional one would never know Nathan’s background. You can take the boy out of Tipton, but you cannot take Tipton out of the boy. Nathan is a chemist. He is brilliant chemist. Currently he is studying for his PhD at university while working simultaneously as a consultant. At work, he is considered brilliant.  Living in Huddersfield one might mistake Nathan for a stereotypical northern chemist. Lanky and slender, with glasses and pale skin attributed to typical studious many hours indoors and much time on the computer and in a lab. Nathan attended his interview three-piece suit.  Yet beneath this misleading exterior, lies the beating heart of a boy raised in Tipton. A highly intelligent, sensitive boy, interested in facts, and with a brilliant mind. It is perhaps no wonder that he has mastered jujitsu. It is perhaps no wonder that he joined the army cadets where he trained in battlefield first aid. On first sight, one would...

“ Excuse me, please do you have a moment. Would you be interested in flexible part-time work you can do in your spare time?” No, thank you. Turns away. “You could be earning £3000 a month just doing flexible part-time work in your spare time” What’s spare time were you thinking of? “Well, any spare time that you have. You can do this work in 10 hours a week” I get up at 5 am to go to my first job of the morning which is a cleaning job. I clean toilets and offices and then I go home, Get my child ready for school. when my child goes to school then I do my normal full-time job 9-to-5. Then I make my way to sell kitchens six till 10. I’m home at 11 and I get up again at five. “Well, what do you do on Saturdays and Sundays?” I sell kitchens on Saturdays and Sunday. All day Saturday and mornings on Sunday. Then Sunday afternoons I clean the house and do the laundry and get the shopping in as I have to make sure my child has lunches and uniforms for the week. My child also has a disability s...