Chaos Magnet

6:39PM - Upseting story about cats

Read this, get angry, sign the petition, and write to the papers.

9:36AM - Another Year

14 years ago today things changed.

14 years ago today my cousin Evelyn (27), her partner Michael (27), and their middle child Michelle (7), were shopping for a memorial wreath for Michael's father who had died a few days before. Darren (11) and Lauren (11 weeks) were at home with Evelyn's parents.

14 years ago today there were at the wrong place at the wrong time when two you men walked into the fish shop in which they were. Those two young men, dressed as delivery-men didn't have fish for the shop, they had a hidden bomb.

14 years ago today nine people died. Including Evelyn, Michael, and Michelle. Evelyn's mother's brother helped pull them out, but didn't recognise them. A cousin serving in the police had to identify them as it was deemed too bad for a civilian to see. The three coffins that sat in my Uncle and Aunt's living-room were sealed. I've been told a few details of the bodies and they prey on my mind.

For those not directly involved the memories of the bomb in Frizzel's Fish Shop on the Shankill Road have faded. Some of us will carry it to the end.

8:39PM - Click. Please.

Please bookmark this link and click on it every day. It means homeless cats (and dogs) get food paid for by the site's sponsors AND IT COSTS YOU NOTHING.

6:32PM - Read this, then donate

http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/710763.html#cutid1

8:07PM - WARNING

In case you haven't heard a group called 'Warriors For Innocence' has been causing trouble with LJ admin about things in folks' 'interests' lists. This has led to lots of LJs being permanently suspended without notice. Journals and communities that have been TOSed include those belonging to incest/abuse survivors, fan-fic comms, one discussing Nabokov's Lolita.

Here are some links;
http://femmequixotic.livejournal.com/292480.html
http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html
http://acari.livejournal.com/299533.html
http://bookshop.livejournal.com/823879.html

You might think it won't impinge on you, but one morning you'll wake up and they'll be on your doorstep.

8:17PM - Gosh, I thought I'd be naughtier!

8:15PM

10:43PM - Cat help plea

This net thingy has wonderful potential. I would ask that if you have anyone on you fl who lives in Australia to point them at these people and see if they can help a homeless kitty. The 'Gingers' made me cry.An urgent call for Adult Cat Carers

Can you please forward on to your respective mailing lists, this is an urgent call for help.
We urgently need adult cat carers who can take 1-2 Adult cats immediately. The cats are in real need of accomodation or they will be at risk and are part of a group of 12 that we need homes for. We will supply all necessary help and support.
The adult cats all come desexed, microchipped, vaccinated and wormed. They are all socialised and used to a home environment with other cats.
Given the logistics involved we need people who are able to pick up the cats in the next few days from our rehab in Gladesville either at night time or in the day.
Adult cats are easier to look after, make less mess and fit in well with your family and friends but they may take longer to rehome. With this call you WILL be saving a life.
If you have the spare capacity please email kelly@catrescue.com.au or derek@catrescue.com.au - thank you for taking the time to read this email, we are grateful for your support.
Sincerely, Derek Knox
email: derek@catrescue.com.au
web: http://www.catrescue.com.au

3:30PM - Spooky Pictures!

Yesterday afternoon catspur carved Pumpkin Bob, and we took some (  spooky pictures of the cats )

9:40AM - From Blackcats (about a very sick site)

It seems that this is real :-( I was hoping it wasn't.

Ive already reported this to the police and to the spca, but I need your help, please we need to get this off the net and we need to punish those who fucking did this!

This is the website that needs to come down, I warn you, it contains pictures of extremly violent, grusome torture, abuse and MURDER of a CAT. . I bawled for a good 10 minutes before I Decided I need to do something about this. http://www.clip.gr.jp/~repulse/cat/cat.html

Please send email's to your local police service complaint
For edmonton Police it's eps@police.edmonton.ab.ca
For Edmonton SPCA it's http://www.edmontonhumanesociety.com/contact.html
For Calgary Police it's cps@calgarypolice.ca
For Calgary SPCA it's 403- 250-7722.
Latham Foundation: Info@Latham.org

Copy this and pass it on, if it reaches other cities not mentioned above, please please find the phone numbers or email address yourselves.
this has to stop NOW.

OK, my advive is really, really don'y look at this. But it's hard to complain if you don't. If you can handle it, watch it and then vcomplain to whoever you think is relevant.

Current mood: angry

9:11PM

I had a bit of an update of my friends list as it was getting out of hand. I hope I haven't offended anyone.

12:22PM

Just want to say thanks to catspur and Kiir for looking after me over the weekend. Thanks for hoovering and stuff.

2:34PM - Dashwood - 5/11/92 - 30/11/94

Dashwood (Dishy) was my little ginger cat, who was with me for just over 2 years. I saw him one lunchtime in a pet shop in town and fell in love at first sight. I told him to wait until I finished classes later that day and I would be back for him. Unfortunately I couldn't get there before they closed so I got my then boyfriend to go and get him and I'd meet them at the bus stop.
I was so worried that he'd have been sold, but when I got to the bus stop there he was. I held him close inside my coat all the way home - he didn't yowl once, just peeled out to see where he was going.
Well, every day I loved him more and more, he never scratched me, and he grew into a beautiful cat. Where I was, there he was. Sometimes he could make himself look like Yoda. He was my golden boy, my silver paws.
Then on a wet November morning I was called downstairs by Liivi. She'd found him by the roadside when she went out to take Kiir to school and had brought him home to me. I picked him up, there was still a hint of warmth, but he was gone with not a mark on him not even a line of blood from his mouth. I held him close, standing in the front garden, and screamed at Heaven for the injustice. Screamed until I could taste blood. My boyfriend came and brought us inside, and I sat in the conservatory for over two hours holding Dashwood close, stroking his fur, tickling his ears, crying, talking to him, but he couldn't feel or hear me and I couldn't bring him back.
I wrapped him in the blanket I knit for him when he was a kitten and we dug him a grave under the cherry tree at the bottom of our garden. Then we made sure the other cats got a chance to say their goodbyes, and I put my beloved in the cold wet ground. I found a few flowers to put with him and made sure he was well wrapped in his blanky and put the earth on him. And wailed.

Sometimes the other cats go and sit on his grave, sometimes I go and talk to him. For a while after he died I could see him sitting on the grass above his burial place; it was so hard not to go and get him, to hold him close, or just to snip a piece of his fur - I forgot to do that.

Dishy was one of the great loves of my life, we had a special connection, losing him still hurts. But I'm richer for having known him, even if it was for a short while.

Some lives never leave us, some lives mean more to us than our own.

Current mood: sad

11:58AM - Books

I finished S. Rowbotham's Century of Women on 7th November.
Then Non Campus Mentis - which seems to have disappeared so I can't tell you who wrote it, but it is very funny; and Cunningham, C. - Down's Syndrome.

Next a pile of books the reading order of which I can't remember;
Binski, P - Medieval Death
Pratchett, T. - The Last Hero
Craig, M (ed.) - Cats and their Poems
Wray, M. - The Haunted Coast,The Witches of North Yorkshire, and 13 Ghost Stories from Whitby.
Haddon, C. - 101 Ways For A Cat To Train Its Human and 101 Ways For A Cat To Find Its Inner Kitten


Then back to reading order;
Roach, M. - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Akerley, B.E. - The X-Rated Bible
Picard, L. - Restoration London

And now I'm reading;
Uglow, J. - The Lunar Men

EDIT Non CampusMentis was complied by Professor Anders Henriksson.

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3:44PM - 10 Years Ago

Today is the 10th anniversary of the bomb which killed my cousin Evelyn Baird (27), her man Micheal Morrison (27) and their daughter Michelle (7). They were survived by Darren (9) and lauren (6 weeks) because they'd stayed behind at their grandparents, Bobby and Evelyn, who have cared for them ever since.
None of us have ever been the same.

As it is the 10th anniversary my uncle Bobby, and auntie Evelyn's brother Charlie (who helped pull the bodies out and didn't recognised his own niece and grand niece) have arranged a commenerative service tonight as the church the funeral was held in. At uncle Bobby's insistance no dignataries or politicians have been invited (they were very involved in the months after the bomb but once it stopped being newsworthy they stopped coming, and the family are fed-up with journalists asking stupid questions). The service is for all the people who died over 30 years in the 10 large bombs on the Shankill - uncle Bobby says they all deserve to be remembered.

In the aftermath a group of Protestant gunmen went into a Catholic pub and killed several people in revenge ... one of them was the brother-in-law of one of my mum's friends.

No-one wins.

So say a prayer, or light a candle, or do whatever it is you do. Thank you.


EDIT
I've put up a link, I'll warn you now it is quite political, but it's the only site with photos I could find.
http://www.iraatrocities.fsnet.co.uk/shankill%20bombing.htm This one has a picture of Evelyn at the far right of the pictures of victims, and the funeral picture is of the joint funeral of the three of them.

2nd edit this link is about my family http://www.iraatrocities.fsnet.co.uk/119.htm
also the one about tonight's service http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=456369

Current mood: contemplative

12:51PM - For Sale

http://www.vollerscorset.co.uk/homepage.html

I've got their Desiree corset, or something very much like it for sale. It's a full length overbust style with 6 suspenders in matt black satin. It is in really good condition, I think I'd class it as 'just under as new'. It is a 20" waist and I'm selling it because I'm never going to be that size again.

Anyone want it? Make me an offer.

7:16AM - Notice (to whom it may concern)

Not beinging able to sleep and fretting because my mum is here I've just been downstairs to talk to Liivi. I've already given mum instructions of not to say anything to upset Liivi and I had a few things of the same sort to ask Liivi - so I did, at which point she informed me that catspur and I had been handfasted when we visited Avebury on the 21st. Well, it's news to us, and to the other six people who were with us - four of whom we'd only met that morning!

So, if anyone has been told this, it is not true - and please people ask me what is going on in my life, don't listen to others unless they are my close friends.

And we didn't get handfasted when we went to Uffington and Wayland's Smithy with sushidog either.

We're NOT getting handfasted until; 1)I'm divorced; 2)next Spring at the earliest.

And when it happens it will definately NOT be done on the quiet. There will be a party.

OK? Got that?

Any questions?

Current mood: pissed off

11:13AM - 'Ello peeps

I got back from Ireland on Wednesday night. Slept until 4.10pm yesterday, and spent the evening and night in the bathroom with a very unflattering stomach upset ... I know I wanted to lose weight but projectile vomiting is not the way.

I feel too ill to put up a proper write up but it was mostly great - Dublin was fab but for the fact that nowhere did credit for my phone ---- grrrrr ---- that meant I couldn't text catspur or sort things out with Alan. Everyone in Dublin was really friendly, even the dead guy in St. Michan's Church Crypt! W0000T!!!
The folks in Newtownards/Belfast were much more provincial and rude, and I just took to sticking my tongue out at people who laughed at my pink hair.

When we can afford it and he can get time off work I'm taking catspur to Dublin.

I'll try to put up a proper review on Monday.

6:27PM - Stuff again

Well, I'm sitting here with a plastic bag on my head again as I'm painting my hair - I did it last night too, but missed bits. I've pretty much packed except for make-up and toiletries which I will do in the morning.

Mum is hugely exciting about seeing me, I'm not looking forward to it as much as I should ... I'm going to miss catspur so much it'll be silly. I'd rather be going and staying in a tent with him near Welwyn Garden City for Summerfest. Oh well, we're grown-ups, we can manage!

I'm still cross with someone because they weren't available for a conversation we were meant to have.

I had to declare chemical warfare this morning as the cats had little hopping friends - grrrrr.

So anyway, I won't be online again until I get back ... unless I find a cyber-cafe :-), so everyone have fun and play nice. I'll miss you all.

6:25PM - My Hell