Hi Folks! Blindingly sunny here, so I SHOULD be in a good mood. Well, sort of I am, in a way. But I am about to take the middle daughter on a shopping spree in the Stratford (East London) Westfield Centre mall for her birthday – and that’s gonna cost a bomb (oops! Shouldn’t put that in case it gets picked up by the security service’s filter) OK! It’s gonna cost a kidney then! (Oh lord! Now it sounds like I’m trying to sell a kidney). But the REAL thing troubling me (vexing me – as they say around these parts) is that I’ve ended up spending practically ALL DAY knocking out THIS thing, when I SHOULD have been updating the website, having started out pulling together some material to update The Original Institute Website (which I’ve begun struggling with some technical issues with theses last few days).
Trouble is, I came across a couple of nursey pictures and I have no bloody control! I also should have been writing AND doing something for Roger Benson and a zillion other things which have fallen by the wayside…Oh well! I’m off out shopping. And perhaps some good will come out of it if it stimulates a few imaginations and so on… Eh?
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THE ST. ALOYSIUS MERCY LODGE CHARITY MENTAL HOSPITAL LONG-TERM SECURE CARE & MORAL RE-EDUCATION UNIT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS DEEMED MENTALLY INCOMPETENT. It all comes down to who judges what. Who decides what constitutes mentally incompetent? Who is it called upon to decide what it is that defines ‘wayward’ behaviour? That was both the weakness and the strength (depending on which side of the barred windows you happen to be on) of some of those old Church-run establishments way back. But given the assumption this is some real residential experimental psychology investigation our heroine has stumbled into, what then fascinates me is the power of labels, not only in governing how others treat her – including those she is mixing with as well as those in authority – but also in affecting how she begins to feel about herself and the affect that has in turn on her ability to stand up for herself and battle against the repression and disciplinary zeal of the system she has become tangled up in.