Rant Hello friend, I’ve been building up a list of my pet peeves. Let’s call this pet peeve no.1: Have you noticed how the preponderance of vomiting in films and TV drama? One film must have started off this craze. Perhaps, the protagonist experienced a huge trauma and spontaneously vomited. Possibly realistic given the right
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2017 – 169 – key Key Hello friend, The original blog entitled ‘key’ was stopped by security as it was deemed as: ‘could cause anxiety’. Putting to one side that the PSI only allows them stop correspondence/blog ‘intends to cause anxiety’, who would it cause anxiety to? The original blog was about one of the
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2017- 168 – arts project Arts Project Hello friend, I’m starting to feel a sense of déjà vu: when I started to get problems HMP Frankland in getting a copy of my song recordings it began with me getting the runaround from staff; passed from pillar to post. The same thing is happening here. I
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Transfer Hello friend, I received the decision on my cross -border transfer application for me to go to Scotland. Mmm… not what I expected. They say: “Regarding your transfer request there is currently no suitable release address in Scotland and it is not clear whether the Local Authority in Scotland would agree to undertake your
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Music Files (civil case) Hello friend, I’ve now received a letter from the Government Legal Department (formerly The Treasury Solicitor) letting me know that “… the papers in the above have been passed to one of our external costs consultants for consideration …” What that means is their spending more taxpayers’ money paying a private
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Arts Project Hello friend, The craziness continues… I’m putting together a coffee table style book of the journey of ‘Jimmy G’. I need some of the team to contribute their experiences to the book; I put together a brief. What happened when I asked to print it out? You guessed it, I couldn’t; it had
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Remembrance Event Hello friend, I went to a remembrance event which was, mainly, organised by one of the Print Shop colleagues. He did it one last year. We had war poetry readings, film, and the choir singing old war songs. This one was a smaller affair but ran over the week. It was about the
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Arts Project Hello friend, The plot thickens: I got a reply back from the Governor; after spending a significant amount of time deciphering his writing (worse than mine, would you believe) with the help of others, he said that the manager denied referring my request for a hard copy of my score to him. He
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Heart Attack & Handcuffs (civil case) Hello friend, I got the new hearing dates through. My ‘specific disclosure’ application is due to be heard, by telephone conference (phew!), at the beginning of February. Perhaps, we’ll find out why the MoJ cannot find all the documents which support my case; like the bed watch logs that
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Arts Project Hello friend, We’ve been waiting for the write up in Inside Time; their prison arts reporter came to the first show. The article wasn’t in this month (maybe next?) but there was a sidebar from one of the outside visitors who attended: “Rock on Tommy … I was one of the people who
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