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Man Jailed for Urinating on Dying Woman 2007-10-26 10:52:25 A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted “this is YouTube material” has been sentenced to three years in prison.
The court heard how, on 27 July, Miss Lakinski was making her way home with a box of laminate flooring when she fell ill and stumbled into a doorway. Anderson, a former soldier, had smoked a cannabis joint and been drinking when he and two friends spotted her.
He tried to rouse her by throwing a bucket of water over her, before urinating on her and covering her with shaving foam.
A crowd had gathered around, watching and laughing, and the incident was filmed on a mobile phone.
She was later declared dead at the scene, the cause of death being given as pancreatic failure.
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What kind of sick world do we live in. It makes me so angry reading stories like this. Read more:Dying
Red Cross, Callum’s Blog & Life’s Chronicles 2007-10-26 08:10:44 M (Red Cross
) phoned me yesterday afternoon and asked if I was available to provide first aid cover on Saturday and I said I would. Someone is picking me up at 10:45am and I will be home around 6pm I’m guessing. We were chatting on the phone for quite a bit as we were talking about Red Cross related stuff and he asked me about my car. He said he is in this city pretty often for work and motorways are like second nature to him and he has done a bit of training for drivers and if I want, he can take me on the motorway to get used to it, that would be great. My dad would take me but with his eyesight and not only that, but the fact he hasn’t drove on the roads, let alone motorways, much these past 10 years it would be a bit risky… So I may take M up on his offer.
Callum is starting a blog which is really good and when it gets up and running properly I will add a link to the side bar. Also Callum may become co-owner of Life’s Chronicles. He is good at creating
Oooer… 2007-10-25 20:07:12 You’re probably going to read quite a bit on Christmas presents in the upcoming weeks and for that, I apologise in advance. To be honest I’m not looking forward to Christmas at all, but I need to get some presents for people and I’ll be using this blog to my advantage. I need to get the presents bit by bit and not leave it until the last moment, so that I have more control over my money.
However, saying all that I have fallen in love with this camera: Fuji FinePix S5700 Digital Camera (review)
Really good price, half tempting. Ok, VERY tempting but I can’t&hellip
; I. Can’t. Buy. It. But I want to…. Argh!!!!!
Money is horrible.
Callum’s House 2007-10-25 17:22:08 Before I start this entry I thought I’d clarify that even though the Blood Brothers play did lack some things the acting and overall performance did impress me and it was enjoyable.
I have spent the last few days at Callum’s house, I got back home this afternoon and I’m missing him already! It’s been a great few days, I’ve had the chance to bond more with Callums mum and brother and had the occasional chat with Callums dad, unfortunately I didn’t see him much as he works but we all went out for an evening meal on Tuesday which was good. We ordered our meals and 4 huge plates come to our table and we certainly got our moneys worth! The food was lovely and then we had dessert. I went for Chocolate Ice Cream with Brandy Sauce which was yummy but Callum and his dad had banana splits and part of me wished I ordered that instead. Mmmmmm….. food. Was nice.
I say the last few days have been great but on Wednesday we were told the awful news that Read more:House
Blood Brothers & Police 2007-10-22 08:56:26 Blood brothers and the police? Nope, we’re not talking about a drunken night on the town.
The police finally got here, not long after I wrote the last entry actually. They said they hadn’t forgotten about them next door and they said they are going to try and get a camera put outside of our house so we can monitor goings on and it will be easier to convict them if they do anything. With Halloween & Bonfire night just around the corner I hope we get that camera soon. I don’t trust them at all!
Callum and I went to see ‘The Blood Brothers
’ at the local theatre on Saturday evening (yesterday). To be honest, I was pretty disappointed and maybe I got my hopes up too much about it… It was an amateur performance, local playgoers and they cut out a lot of scenes and added some bits and it was meant to be a Musical but there was no music, apart from about 5 minutes worth at the start. The best bits were cut out such as the prison scenes, when Mrs Johnsto Read more:Blood
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Learn some manners 2007-10-17 11:23:31 I am waiting for the police to get here. I don’t think I posted about events that happened yesterday but one of them included a phone call from the police. I began to lost hope, I thought they forgotten about us since the time I reported my car getting egged and the bullying tactics I need to put up with but they phoned and said no way have they forgotten. They said they were going to have a meeting with the officers etc who have been involved with them next door (I’m guessing there is a long list ) and they said they would be here this afternoon to tell us what their plan of action is. They sound as fed up of them next door as much as (or maybe even more than) we are.
Me having dog ears heard the gate go and I automatically assumed it was the police, I put my laptop down and was tidying up the table then M (Not Red Cross ‘M’, another ‘M’) walks in (a guy who lives around the corner, one of 2 people we get on with in this community) and he says, &ld
Last minutes of life and after… 2007-10-16 19:56:30 Last night I was feeling pretty sad and was crying a bit. I was watching ‘Scrubs’ (a TV sitcom I love) and part of the storyline was of this woman who was waiting for a heart transplant. If she didn’t get the transplant, she’d die. This lady was talking about how she didn’t fear death, in fact, her and J.D were discussing what they think death was like, much to Perry’s dislike who wanted them to change to a more ‘happier’ subject. Anyway, later in the show this woman stopped breathing and Perry and his team were trying to revive her as J.D was standing by the room door watching on, he started to day-dream (like he normally does). He imagined this lady dancing around her empty bed, a really happy lady singing how life for her has just began and it reminded me of my step-mum who died last year. Even though she was my step-mum, all my life she has been a real mother to me and I miss her a lot. Anyway it made me think what she was thinking in Read more:hellip
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Random facts about myself you may not already know (off the top of my head)… 2007-10-15 17:31:23 Random facts
about myself
you may not already know (off the top of my head):
I have been craving coffee a lot these past few days, more than normal.
I prefer cold coffee to hot/warm coffee.
I sometimes drink lager, but to be honest, I’m not all that fussed on the taste of it.
I love Japanese sweets and snacks, especially Pocky.
I have been penpalling since I was 13 years old.
I think I am addicted to rum balls.
The only cartoon type show I watch is Family Guy.
I’d love to write a novel, I started but never finished and doubt I’ll ever finish one either.
I do a lot online, not only do I own and run a website, blog & I own a forum (which to be honest, I haven’t worked hard on as yet so perhaps that doesn’t count), I also moderate a forum and co-admin another as well as devoting quite a bit of my online time to others. Sometimes, I need to take a step back.
I am a nature girl at heart and love nothing better than walking in the country with my camera&hel Read more:hellip
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Driving Chaos 2007-10-15 09:16:15 Today I went out for a drive. Went to town to try out the car park and when we got there it was packed solid, had to go into any space you could find. I kind of expected it considering it was Monday morning. I love my car, the only problem is I have to stretch to see the front of it. When I was driving the Ford Focus in Blackpool this past September I didn’t have that problem at all but I’m too low in my Corsa. I have tried using a cushion but then my legs are too close to the steering wheel and I feel too high up. Will sort it out somehow. But ye, parking today was no fun. I managed to get into a spot eventually and I guess that is the main thing!
We did a bit of shopping and went to the train station to get some mugshots of dad so he can apply for a disabled driving badge, we intended to go along the motorway today but I didn’t feel all that up to it and instead we came home. There’s plenty of time. I’m going to Swindon next week for a few days, I can& Read more:Driving
, Chaos
Red Cross & Jobs 2007-10-13 18:38:18
I was on the phone until gone 3am last night/this morning to Callum, looking back I realise maybe it wasn’t the wisest idea considering I had to be up at 9am. I woke up at 9am (actually, my dad woke me up) and I fell promptly back to sleep and I got up at 10am. Ah crap. I had, like, 15 minutes to get up, dressed and ready for the Red Cross
event. I can normally be out of bed and out of this house in 5 minutes (I did that a lot when I was in school), but because I was going to an event I had to get my uniform and all sorts of other stuff ready too. I didn’t have time for food or drink and I was craving coffee sooooo much!! I ended up going to the shop for a quick fix of Red Bull, it did the job.
T picked me up with M in the car. M was telling me she and some other volunteers/staff went to Geneva and only came back a few days ago. They had a fabulous time, it really shows the work that the Red Cross do and when you have visited you really do feel proud to be a part of this cha
Holiday-days.. 2007-10-31 12:26:39 My dad just told me he is selling the train set I bought him about two years ago because he can’t use it, which is a real shame. It’s not like he told me beforehand either, he said, “I forgot to tell you, I put an ad in the paper I’m selling the train set”, I wish he would have told me before but I guess it makes no real difference. At the end of the day, it’s up to him what he does with it. I’m a bit disappointed because he has literally wanted a train set since he was a young boy and now finally we bought him one (my step-mum and I - when she was alive) and he hasn’t used it much at all. I guess we don’t have the room but meh… I don’t know. It was one of them few gifts that I knew he REALLY wanted and now he is selling it and he hasn’t really used it. He said when it sells he will give me the money, I didn’t ask for the money back, but considering Christmas is just around the corner I guess I could get him Read more:Holiday
Park & Shopping 2007-10-30 18:03:19 This morning I went to town to do a bit of shopping… I had to go early because the bread might have sold out and I only needed to go for bread, really. Anyway, I was walking around and did a lot of shopping, about an hour later I thought “uh-hu… bread!!” Thankfully I got to the bakery in time… my memory is hopeless lately. I can’t seem to remember much at all, it’s so bad sometimes I even forget to write things down to remind me later It’s not really funny though… I hate it.
This afternoon I decided to go to the park, it is Autumn so the park would be beautiful and I wasn’t wrong at all! Thankfully the weather remained lovely… It had been sunny and warm all day and as soon as I left the front door it got all cloudy and I thought it would rain but thankfully the sun came out again. I took some pics. Here’s a few but there’s more in my flickr account:
Walking home I was going past this car who Read more:Shopping
Oh dear… 2007-10-29 11:44:13 I am starting to find myself getting addicted to Facebook. Why oh why oh why? It isn’t all that a bad site really. I thought it was boring but last night I logged in and really had a look around. I was fed up of talking to myself on MySpace, hardly anyone leaves comments anymore as everyone has pretty much moved over to Facebook. So ya, I quite like it now. :o
I had an appointment with a job adviser this afternoon. It went really well. I told her I had an interview next week (did I mention that? I don’t think I did&hellip
;) and she said to let her know what happens. If I don’t get the job then she can set me up to go onto a 2 week care course to ‘expand’ my experience, and at the end of that course I may well get a placement which would be fantastic. Although, I’m hoping to get the job I’m attending an interview for next week… I really like it.
Nothing much else has happed as yet and my brain is half empty so it’s a small entry for
Joy of the Red Cross 2007-10-28 14:43:06 Red Cross
event yesterday and it was a pretty hectic day but I won’t go into all the details as most of the happenings were to do with the ‘internals’ of the Red Cross. We had one casualty who collapsed and was unconscious - diabetic, and was taken to the onsite hospital. One of the fellow volunteers shown me about 50 photographs taken while they were in Geneva and they were lovely, I’m hoping to go next year if another trip is planned, but first of all I need to sort out my passport! I really need to get working on that.
I have booked a place for an international Red Cross meetup in Manchester for next March. I’m not sure how I’m getting there yet. We were talking yesterday and I think we’re all going to get a minibus considering there’s about 10 or more people from our area going (so far).
I feel like I’m starting to ‘fit in’ with the Red Cross, which is great. I struggle to fit in anywhere and I love the fact that I&
Red Cross and just a long day! 2007-11-04 13:12:59 It should be a crime to have to get up at 7am on a Sunday. I have been on Red Cross
duties providing first aid cover for the Welsh Disabled Sports Team Championships held in Cwmbran Stadium.
I was picked up at 8:30am and I think we spent more time circling roundabouts than actually ‘proper’ driving. We got to Cwmbran and could see the stadium but couldn’t find an entrance but finally about 20 minutes later we got there.
Pretty busy, think there was about 20 teams competing. Loads of events being held there from swimming to football, shot-put, table tennis to pool and weightlifting and a little ’sport’ (I’d name it as a sport) named ‘Boccia’, but more about that later.
4 first aiders, one ambulance and an NHS ambulance officer was there providing the first aid cover. A perfect opportunity to ask about how to get into the paramedic career - so I took the chance and got a few pointers!
It was a pretty fun day and it was so great to see eve
Just… 2007-11-02 16:52:25 I intended to update last night but didn’t get around to it. I never said how Halloween went. I was expecting to have to wash the windows of the house or my car to get the egg/flour off them but thankfully not! We also didn’t get ANY trick or treaters so more sweeties for me. hehe Yay. Thankfully that’s one of the worst holidays in the year over with. Now, it’s just Guy Fawkes Night and Christmas - which, to be honest, are both pretty bad.
I never used to dislike Christmas until my step-mum passed away and now the goodness of it has totally evaporated. Last Christmas was bad but this Christmas is going to be much worse, I can sense it already. People keep telling me to enjoy it because that’s what my step-mum would of wanted but it is just so difficult! Grieving process is hard. It’s been one and a half years and I still am not ‘over it’, and I don’t think I ever will be. Sure, some days are better than others and when I think I&rsq Read more:hellip
Shopping, Cleaning & Spiders 2007-11-01 12:45:58 I’ve been doing quite a bit of housework today and I’m still doing the washing. I have washed a lot of the curtains etc and after the current load is finished I think I will strip off the sofa and put the covers in there. As I was taking down the kitchen curtains I saw this mammoth of a spider dangling outside and I just had to take a photo of it:
I hate spiders, so getting up close to it my heart was going like crazy, as soon as I took the pic I ran away and let my dad deal with it, he thrown it in the garden. Seeing the image pretty much full screen when I put it on the laptop made me shiver. Urgh. I don’t know what it is I hate about spiders so much?? It could be their legs… I think that’s what freaks out a lot of people.
I walked to town to do a bit of shopping, before I left I was wondering what to have for dinner and decided to try Macaroni Cheese, I haven’t cooked it yet, haven’t cooked it before but it looks pretty easy. Done a heap Read more:Shopping
, Cleaning
My brain is hurting… 2007-11-09 10:49:10 I’m making a new web layout for Life’s Chronicles and argh, it’s so frustrating! Everything is going well so far.. I’ve made the layout in Photoshop and now it’s just a matter of coding. Ha, “just”. I am totally re-doing it so the current layout isn’t that much help but it’s giving me a base to work from. I am having a break at the moment, after I finish writing up this entry I’m going to go play Portal: The Flash Version. I’ve been playing it the last few days and it’s pretty addicting. I’m on level 36/40. I will finish it even if it takes me all year which isn’t that long consider there’s only, what, 50 days or so until the end of this year Read more:hurting
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I got the job! 2007-11-08 07:23:02 Guess what? I have a job!! Hehe. I didn’t write about how my interview went on Monday. It was pretty good. I was so incredably nervous before hand though, I was ready at 12:30pm and I couldn’t stand the hanging around at my house so at 1pm dad and I got in the car and drove to the location of the interview. I asked dad to tag along because I haven’t drove on my own yet and I’m still a little nervous about it but the drive there and back went really well. I left dad in the car when I went for the interview. He had his little Tetris game and the radio in the car so he was alright.
The interview was at 2pm and lasted an hour. Asking mostly indepth questions and had to write an answer for one, too. I think they liked me and the interview went well but I wasn’t getting my hopes up considering they were interviewing a lot of people. I asked when I’d hear back and they said on Wednesday/Thursday.
Wednesday now, and I was in the ambulance with M on the way t
CRB, illness & Life’s Chronicles 2007-11-12 07:46:11 I have just got back from the civic centre and handed in my CRB form, hopefully I won’t need to wait too long before I can get a start date for my new job. Last night I was so weak I couldn’t even fill in the form all in one go. I had been in and out of bed all evening and then finally retired to my bed at just before 12am, I felt so ill, headache, fever, vomiting and just generally felt really unwell but today thankfully I am feeling a bit better but I do have a stomach ache. I don’t know what’s bought it on, I was thinking last night perhaps it was food poisoning but it could be just a bug (labeling it down to the bug because I’m not criminalising myself by calling it food poisoning!!).
In the last entry I mentioned I am making a new web layout, or maybe that should now say was. Yep, I’ve finished the layout and I think it looks much better than the last one. It’s still not totally completed the code needs adjusting a bit. I’m gonna sta Read more:illness
Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children 2007-11-19 10:53:25 Last night I watched a documentry that made me feel incredible anger towards healthcare in Bulgaria
and sympathy for the poor little “damaged” children who have to endure it. 75 children living in an orphanage treated more like animals. Actually, animals get better treatment than these little defenseless souls. They are not taught love, affection. They are simply there to be fed and to be kept clean (although the living conditions are not that great either). Many of them are in such a bad state they can’t even communicate, instead they sit on their own all day staring into oblivion rocking back and forth on their chair or banging their head against it.
There are two types of people in there, the bedbound and “the walkers” (as the carers so nicely puts it). Those who are bedbound, their life is pretty much over because their independence disappears and they rely totally on the staff, more often than not, ending up in an early grave because they are simply n Read more:Abandoned
, Children
Random 2007-11-18 09:54:19 Hello!! Have you missed me? Thought not.
Anyway, I haven’t really felt up to updating my blog this week but now I’m feeling a bit stronger so I’ll be trying to update it much more regularly. First and foremost, I just want to announce, I have completed level 40!! Don’t believe me? See for yourself: Click moi.
Got a phonecall from my employer to be the other day and she asked if I’m still interested in the job. Of course I am! Reason she asked is because she got in touch with the council/civic centre and they haven’t had any of my references yet… they should have at least one because I know for sure my nieghbour posted it! So she is gonna send him another one, and I need to contact my old school on Monday to find out what’s going on… I told her I sent off my CRB form and she said it shouldn’t be long until I hear back, they are going through them a lot faster than they used to. So apparently it’s mainly the reference Read more:Random
Latest Photography 2007-11-17 08:23:44
Real update of my life coming later…
Edit: Just realised this is my 100th entry. PARTAY TIME!!
True feelings or sarcastic lies? 2007-11-20 09:59:12 True feelings, or sarcastic lies?
I was *just* about to go offline to do a few things when my phone beeped. As soon as I read who it was from I knew I should have deleted it, but I didn’t. I guess curiosity got the better of me. My ex boyfriend, who I finished with in April) sent a text saying how sorry he is for the way he treated me, he said he knew he was an idiot (I can think of more stronger words but I shall refrain myself), saying how he wants me to be happy and follow my dreams etc.
As soon as I read it, I wonder if it is another one of his mental tricks. Making me believe him, so that I text him back then BANG he is back in contact, giving me crap, letting me fall into his trap again. I gave him the option MANY times to be friends, but instead he choose to make my life unbelievably difficult. He said things that can’t be taken back. Sent me things that left it’s mark. It’s all too much. Forgive? No, I can’t. Forget? Sorry but no.
Give someone too
Saturday, 1st December 2007-12-01 08:38:19 I couldn’t sleep last night, insomnia is a pig. My body was ready for sleep yet my brain just wouldn’t rest and it is so frustrating, but thankfully I ended up getting a few hours, only to be waken up by my dad shouting up the stairs trying to get me up so we can go to town, and we ended up being caught in a thunder & lightning storm… which was fun. Had really poor weather all night, and parts of Wales have also had some tremors. Yay, it’s finally starting to actually feel like Winter!
Sitting here like a block of ice, but thankfully, I recieved a book through the post today and I’ll have a read of it later; The Savage Garden by Mark Mills. I’m part of a book club, and now I’m reading two books, the other being Hide by Lisa Gardner (an awesome author). I’m getting there slowly. Takes some concentration and concentration is something I lack, so I need to re-read sentences or paragraphs over again let it sink in which is somewhat an Read more:Saturday
, December
Random Facts (2) 2007-11-29 18:11:17 Feel like typing out more random facts…
More random facts here: click
One of my nicknames for my dog is ’strawberry face’, because he is so cute.
Photography and Photoshop (not always related) are my top favourite hobbies and help keep me sane.
I can now offically say I do love driving. Ask me that question 2 months ago and the answer would of been totally opposite!
I find it hard to enjoy movies. Even those that are high in the ratings, I just can’t seem to get as ‘excited’ about them as other people.
I like snakes but I hate spiders, not matter how small. Anything with over 4 legs just seems to freak me out!
I hate Sundays and I don’t like public holidays.
Some of my poetry has been published
For the first time, since I got them in August, I was able to touch my hamsters the other week. Only problem is they got my hands confused with a piece of food and decided to bite me three times.
I hate having to sit down on public benches or walls e Read more:Random
Weekend-ness 2007-11-26 11:46:11 To say I felt crap today would be an understatement. I’m hoping this’ll pass, I don’t know what’s causing it but this yucky horrible Autumn/Winter season certainly isn’t helping matters.
I’ve done quite a bit of driving this weekend. On Friday afternoon I drove around for a bit and diverted into ‘Pets at Home’ to get the hamsters a few supplies. Of course, I couldn’t forget my little dog too, don’t want him getting jealous. Then in the evening I drove to pick Callum up from the train station, a drive I was particularly nervous about, mainly because of the horrific roundabout I had to go around and had no way of dodging. The past few weeks, anytime I have gone around it the traffic was crazy thanks to the stupid roadworks going on just about everywhere, but I had no problems on Friday thankfully. Then on Sunday I drove us to Tesco and the cinema, but more about that later.
I have just got back from town. Walked past a local g Read more:Weekend
Last Blog For A Week 2008-02-28 08:23:14 This will most likely be my last blog for the week. I need to go to work in an hour and I’ll finish at 10pm (I really should have booked this day off, too), then I’ll drive to the train station to pick up Callum and then we’ll come home and I’ll do a bit [...]
Lazy Drivers 2008-02-26 16:12:32 Typical day at work today, each day that goes past I get more and more frustrated with a roundabout I need to go around to get home. People just don’t indicate. Out of all my driving pet peeves, that is the main one. People who are too darn lazy to indicate. I sit at a [...] Read more:Drivers
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