Although my initial interest in sailing came from sailing with the churchwarden, which was only a few sailing sessions, and he was usually sexually intrusive during those trips, I quickly progressed, while still living with him, to sailing elsewhere. I joined a sailing group, and for a long time I didn’t know they met every…
When I had been in Jersey a short while I was given a card that entitled me to free or discounted entry to attractions and activities. I remember I was so keen to do everything. I had been in such severe poverty in Dorset that I had rarely been able to relax and have fun,…
It is notable that less problems occur with friends who allow me space and do not panic when I can’t cope, and who do not get involved intensely or as a panacea for their own troubles. This couple are admirable in what they have done for me when everyone and everything else was hurting me…
Before JM started being sent curates to train, she used to take me to many services and events, presumably as a companion and assistant, as I had many little errands to run, such as fetching chairs from the church room and getting things from the car, fetching and carrying etc. JM never actually prepared or…
I self-referred to MIND in my early 20s to ensure I wasn’t too isolated and to encourage myself to socialize. Because, just as I have done now, I developed a liking for being alone in my home, alone, no company, just drifting, and I know, however much I like drifting, I need to keep trying…
There weren’t many happy or stress-free times in my life with my family, there were a few, but we didn’t get to go out and do things like normal families do.This isn’t anyone’s fault, we were a large family with no money. When I left home and went to college, I had my first real…
I joined the other sailing club to get more dinghy sailing and training and more social activities. They had an open day one day and were selling off the old club dinghys.They were very kind to me as I viewed the dinghys and picked out one for me in reasonably good shape, they sold this…
I have had a bad week of stresses and dead ends, I have got very distressed, especially with the States of Jersey bollocks, so I am trying to get back to feeling better by doing some more happy memories. Tall ships:It was one boat show day, I wandered onto a tall ship that was parked…
See the bay tree How big it’s grown but friend it hasn’t been that long it wasn’t big you laughed at me and I got mad the first day that I planted it was just a twig Now my life’s an empty stage where Bonnie lived and Bonnie played and love grew up and I…
It was another sponsored event, but more than that, it started with a sponsored walk, which ended at Wolvsley Palace in Winchester for a youth event, a ‘garden party’ with stalls and events and meeting in the marquee where we had a talk, from memory, the talk was about youth in the church of England,…
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