Bullying
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I like books.
Why do I have so many books? No, seriously, I want to know. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought recently and I have to say I’m not exactly sure. Not only do I have shelf after shelf of books, most of them are unread. I gave up buying fiction in a physical…
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Me? Silent? Make me!
This whole “Twitter Silence” thing is making me very cross today. With typical Weegie contrariness, if someone tells me not to do something, my response is “oh, you fucking think so?” and, to be honest, I could see it all far enough. I’m going through a down period. My depression is back, I have upped…
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Neds
[tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I have blogged about my bullying experiences before in two posts: Sticks and Stones One and Two. I spoke about how it was all in the past and that I was fine now. And until last night, I thought I was. We sat down as a family to watch Neds, a film set in…
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Sticks and Stones Part 2
[tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I’m writing this to respond to the many comments left on my previous blog post about bullying. Firstly, please don’t feel sorry for me. What happened happened. It was years ago and I try to live each day of my life waving a two fingered salute to the past. I am what…
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Sticks and Stones…
“…may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” Whoever wrote that was wrong. There is no Superhero with the power not to be hurt by incessant name-calling. I was bullied relentlessly during almost my entire school life. I can’t remember when it started but I know it ended when I left school for…