Penny

Balance is what is needed

Published August 18, 2011 | By Penny

I wrote a blog after the riots looking at why I thought this may have happened, there had been many articles about the why’s and where for, some quite calm and some outrageously biased or over the top.

I suggested that we needed to look beyond the thugs, beyond the gangs, beyond class and instead look at the very fabric of society.

Many agreed with me and I was quite happy that I had written a well balanced blog. I draw your attention to it because the one word that stands out in this is ‘balance’

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What’s happening to us?

Published August 2, 2011 | By Penny

What’s happening to us?

Day after day,week after week and month after month I have watched a country I was once proud of turn on itself.

Man against man, woman against woman, race against race and class against class.

Each blaming the other for the sorry state of our once great nation. I am non political, I consider myself to be well educated and keep abreast of most current affairs, so I have watched us all tearing each other and ultimately ourselves apart, bit by certain bit. Continue reading →

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Disability, benefits and me

Published July 10, 2011 | By Penny

How do I write about a subject that is so personal to me and yet is being forced into the minds and hearts of every person in this country now through the Government and media?

I will start by telling you a bit about myself, let me introduce myself to you, my name is Penny, I am 55 years old ( I’m not sure how I got to be this age, it sort of crept up on me) I am a wife, mother to 3 grown up daughters and grandmother to 4 grandchildren. Continue reading →