M. C. Dutton

It was 5 years ago that I first saw Jimmy.  He had been sentenced by the local Magistrates Court to a 6 month referral order.  A Referral Order is the lowest rung on the ladder of criminality.  You have to plead guilty, it has to be your first offence and you have to be under 18 years old.

Jimmy was sitting before me with his father and we were discussing the contract he would have to undertake for 6 months.  His father us…

HOME

• No home life
• No structure
• No caring
• No love
• No role models
• No incentives
• No positive comments

Your useless, you did nothing at school, you won’t get a job.  You’re a good for nothing that brings nothing into the house.  Your friends are all trouble makers and you are just plain lazy.  You’re an ungrateful boy.  I didn’t want children, you were an accident but I brought you up and this is how you repay me by sittin…

I am a woman alone.  My children are grown up and have families of their own and I am retired.

My life is wonderful, exciting and I am experiencing areas of life I would never indulge in, or have the nerve to indulge in.  How am I doing this?  I write.

I am the gorgeous and fiesty Clemmie whose figure just holds her dress in th…