Wild camping

Hello everyone I am so sorry about being quiet but I have just been getting on with life I am afraid! Anyway here's what I have been doing 

First of all I went out for the first time in 3 years as you can guess there was drama as always but it was still a good night.

I landed a full time job working in a shoe factory.

Taking care of Rudi and myself.

Attending a vegan festival in Newcastle.

Did a bit of wild camping with the ladies in the pictures I learnt how to start a fire and keep it going, forage, I was designated camp cook, we also did spoon carving. It was great these ladies where so inspiring everyone was so different but very helpful and we shared so many stories around the campfire.

Sending light and love

Kay

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BOOK: WAR ON WOMEN

WAR ON WOMEN

Feminism has not reached its goal yet. 

For the white, Western woman, much has changed but the first wave of feminism taken place in many parts of the world it is dangerous for many women to be born.

Every now and then comes threw the Dutch media is a message on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), trafficking, or Indian child brides, but those messages disappear quickly and make little impression. Who knows what FGM is anyway? Details are uncomfortable, but Sue Lloyd-Roberts knows precisely that details make the difference and warns you of them in her book The War Against Women. 

The World Health Organization defines FGM as "any procedure where in a part of or all of the external female genitalia are removed, or any other damage of the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. There are four types according to the organisation. In many cases, the clitoris is maimed or removed and sometimes labia, both inner and outer are cut through. The latter is done to narrow the vaginal opening; anything to make women sexual pleasure possible. Young girls are circumcised, and everything takes place without anaesthesia. Some girls bleed to death after such a cutting party. FGM still exists because of the belief that a girl will not marry if she is not circumcised, she would be unclean or indecent; people value tradition.

That is what we are talking about when we talk about misogyny; tradition. It is maddening, even for Lloyd-Roberts. 

She writes: "I want to scream when I hear him invoke the word "tradition" as an explanation. How many crimes are all over the world against women committed in the name of tradition? Humanity is becoming better informed, globalised, and more educated, you might think, so why do people just refer to outdated and unexplained traditions mock common sense, and even with the law? What is it terribly convenient to carry on traditions to disguise misogyny and even legitimise criminal behaviour."

In Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, the tradition is to treat a woman as property. she is married off as soon as possible because otherwise it costs too much money. According to the law you may not marry girls in India before 18 years old (boys must be at least 21 years), but it happens that girls have been choosen before they are teens. 

Despite the low social status of women, the honour of a family does depend on chastity and unconditional obedience of daughter, sister, and / or spouse. A girl has however already no longer pure as noted by family that someone other than her (future) husband looks at her. In such cases, a girl's life is no longer certain, honour killings will be punished enough not to commit the murder. If the killer is already arrested and prosecuted, he is only a few months in prison and then welcomed home as a hero: the family honour is saved.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts (she died in October 2015 from a rare form of leukaemia) a courageous journalist, from the texts in the war against women show that they undisturbed questions kept asking, and would not be stopping by disgust or anger or dismay. Moreover, she knows how to put every story in context, making it clear to include these women stories because it can be a huge scandal, or because for bureaucratic reasons little or nothing is done.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts appoints in this book frankly what she sees or hears or thinks. Lloyd-Roberts was not necessarily feminist but came after thirty years of film making to the conclusion that women are very often the victims of situations that are maintained by men. How is it possible that women, a group comprising more than half the world's population, still treated as a minority? It is a political issue, suspected Lloyd-Roberts. It is an issue that is still not considered a priority, even in the Western world is misogyny often seen as a luxury problem. 

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2016 Book's

Books I have read in 2016

January:

1: Pompeii by Robert Harris (recommend)

2: The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank

 3: 101 Dalmatians by Disney

4: The little mermaid by Disney

5: UP by Disney

6: Bambi by Disney

February:

1: A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson

2: Then tenderness of wolves by Stef Penney

3: The curvy girls club by Michele Gorman

 4: The Dove keepers by Alice Hoffman

5: The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester (totally recommend)

March: 

1: The thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (totally recommend)

2: Voodoo killers by Joseph Carlson

3: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of glass by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Winnie the pooh and the honey tree by Disney

6: Wall-e by Disney

7: The lion king by Disney

8: Tinker bell by Disney 

9: The Fox and the Hound by Walt Disney

10: The Adventures of Henry Dent by Cathy Smith

April:

1: The City Of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

2: The Urban beekeeper by Steve Benbow (recommend)

3: City of lost souls by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett

6: The bane chronicles by Cassandra Clare (totally recommend)

7: Let the right on in by John Lindqvist

8: Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

May:

1: The Haunted book by Jeremy Dyson
2: A reunion of ghosts by Judith Mitchell (recommend)
3: We still kill the old way by Nick Oldham (recommend)
4: The daylight gate by Jeanette Winterson
5: The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka
6: Kasyan from the beautiful lands by Ivan Turgenev
7: Killing the dead by Marcus Sedgwick 
8: X Platoon by Steve Heaney
9: Public libraries and other stories by Ali Smith

June
1: The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (recommend)
2: The collected works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
3:The dictionary of mutual understanding by Jackie Copleton
4: I am Malala by Malala Y
5: The Celts by Alice Roberts
6: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (recommend)
7: Ordinary Beauty by Mary McEvoy
8: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
9: The Book Of Lies by Mary Horlock
10: Beatrix potters gardening life by Martha McDowell
11: Red Azalea by Anchee Min (recommend)

July
1: I'm quiet happy standing by Virginia Ironside
2: Red Riding hood by Sarah Blakely - Cartwright (recommend)
3: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
4: The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt (recommend)
5: The Time Of My Life by Patrick Swayze
6: Me Before You by JoJo Moyles
7: The Secret by Decic Henderson
8: Not Quiet Nice by Celia Imrie

August
1: Frances: the tragic bride by Jacky Hyams
2: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (recommend)
3: We also served by Vivian Newman
4: More sawn - off tales by David Gaffney
5: Start wars: Ultimate Duels by Lindsey Kent
6: Sex Killer by Richard Jones
7: The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
8: The Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey
9: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliose

September
1: The woman who would be king by Kara Cooney
2: Bridge of spies by Giles Whittel
3: San Andreas by Alister Maclean (recommend)
4: In the heart of the sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
5: A death in Belmont by Sabastian Junger
6: The Dungeon by Leanne reid banks (recommend)

October
1: The reckless life of Marlon Brando by Stefan Manger
2: By the river piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho
3: The life of Lee by Lee Evans

November
I have not finished a book in November 😐

December
1: The samurai that unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
2: The snow globe by Sheila Roberts (recommend)
3: The spare room by Helen Garner

2015 Book's

All the books I read in 2015

January
1: East to the dawn - The life of Amelia Earhart ( recommend)
2: The Linguist by Mar Urban
3: If on a winters night a traveller by Italo Calvino
4: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

February
1: Mad about a boy by Helen Fielding
2: Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody
3: Hit Girls by Dreda Mitchell

March
1: Churchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson
2: The Exorcist by William Blatty (recommend)
3: Beyond The Bounty by Tim Parson (recommend)
4: Argo by Matt Baglio (recommend)

April
1: The Full Monty by Wendy Holden (recommend)
2: Bella Tuscany by Francis Mayers
3: The Great Fire Of London by Samuel Pepys
4: The house we grew up in by Lisa Jewell (recommend)
5: Indian. English by Jillian Haslam
6: I hate and I love by Catullus (recommend)
7: As kingfishers catch fire by Gerald Hopkins (recommend)
8: The Dhammapada by Buddha
9: It was snow in butterflies by Charles Darwin
10: Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
11: The Fall Of Icarus by Ovid

May
1: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mafuos
2: The hundred foot journey by Richard Morius
3: Dawn of the dead by George Romero
4: The two of us by Sheila Hancock

June
1: Goodfellers by Nicholas Pileggi
2: The girl in Alfred Hitchcock shower by Robert Gray-smith

July
1: Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
2: Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
3: i was told there would be cake by Sloane Crosley
4: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman (recommend)
5: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

August
1: The waiting room by F. G Cotton (recommend)
2: the boy who harnessed the wind by William Kamkwambka
3: Straws upon the surface by A.M Story (recommend)
4: Breakout by Fred Lemon
5: Daddy's little girl by Mary Higgins Clark
6: Sand in my shoes by Joan Rice
7: Just take my heart by Mary Higgins Clark
8: The case book of victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
9: While you where dreaming by Lola Jane
10: China Bay Blues by Adhfel Aziz
11: All quiet on the western front by Erich Remarquie 

September
1: Gods of Egypt by Orland Smart Powell
2: Everyman's book of Victorian verses by Donald Thomas
3: Slow Decay by Andy Lane
4: Random acts of heroic love by Danny Sheinmann (totally recommend)

October
1: David Jason Autobiography by David Jason (recommend)
2: Roxy Music by Johnny Rogan
3: Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
4: Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (recommend)

 November
1: Chestnut street by Maeve binchy
2: The discovery of chocolate by James Runcie
3: touching the void by Joe Simpson

December
1: Paris for one by Jojo Moyes
2: Anthony Hopkins Biography by Quentin Falk
3: Witch Child by Celia Rees (recommend)
4: Star wars: New frontier by Peter David

2014 Books

All the book's I have read in 2014

January

1: The late hector Kipling by David Thewlis

2: Stripped by Samantha Bailey

3: Truth of fiction by Jennifer Johnson

4: The book of blood by Vicki Feaver (recommended)

5: Jurassic park by Michael Crichton

6: doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

7: the sisters brothers by Patrick Dewitt

8: Tinker, Tailor, soldier, spy by John le carre

9: The rum diary by hunter Thompson

10: Eragon by Christopher Paolina

Febuary

1: Unbreakable by Sharron Osbourne

2: Fifth element by terry bison (recommended)

3: League of extraordinary gentlemen by Kevin Anderson (recommended)

4: The bone collector by Jeffrey Deaver (recommended)

5: The constant gardener by John le carre

6: Carper corpus by Rachel Cain

7: the plague by Albert Camus

8: Girl, interrupted by Suzanne Kaysen

9: around the world in 80 days by Michael pa lain

10: my story by Alan Carr

11: lesbian nuns by rosemary curb

12: Gypsy boy by mickey Walsh

13: the reader by Bernard schlink (recommended)

14: warhorse by Michael Murpurgo

March
1: Animal Cracker by Hanna Tinti
2: The poetry of sex by Sophie Hanna (recommended)
3: Anastasia by Peter Kurth
4: The six wife's of Henry VIII by Alison weir (recommended)
5: If I stay by Gayle Foreman
6: The Hobbit by J. R. R Tolkien (recommended)
7: The fellowship of the ring by J. R. R Tolkien (recommended)
8: Soledad brother by George Jackson

April 
1: The execution of Noa P Singleton by Elizabeth Silver
2: The Stonehenge legacy by Sam Christer
3: Requiem by Lauren Oliver 
4: Please look after mom by Shin Sook
5: A tiny bit marvellous by Dawn French
6: Ruby Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
7: Nefertiti by Michelle Morgan
8: Teo te ching by Leo Tzu (recommended)
9: Selected poems by William Blake (recommended)
10: Blood in my eye by George L Jackson

May
1: Brighton Rock by Graham Green
2: Dead men talking by Christopher Berry - Dee
3: Deadly Divorces by Tammy Cohen
4: Shantaram by Gregory Roberts (recommended)
5: Truman Capote by George Plimpton
6: The bus stop killer by Geoffrey Wan sell
7: Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
8: Jack and Jill by James Patterson

June
1: 12 years a slave by Soloman Northup
2: The Arabian Nights by Anonymous (recommended)
3: Dostoyevsky: his life and works by Ronald Hingley
4: A game of thrones by George RR Martin

July
1: The secret life of bee's by Sue Monk (recommended)
2: The baby farm by Karen Harper
3: The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
4: Spartacus: swards and ashes by J.M Clements
5: The home and the world by Rabindranath Tagore

August
1: Lost Souls by David Mack
2: One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez
3: The Rail man by Eric Lomax (recommended)

September
1: The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Laroux (recommended)
2: My sister Keeper by Jodi Picoult

October
1: Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers by J R R Tolkien (recommended)
2: Selected Stories by Muriel Spark (recommended)
3: Love letter of great woman by Ursale Doyle (recommended)
4: Big Fish by Daniel Wallace (recommended)

November
1: Poor Cow by Nell Dunn
2: The man and his movies by Jami Bernard
3: Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (recommended)

December
1: The pack by Jason Starr
2: Morrigans cross by Nora Roberts
3: The horse whisperer by Nicholas Evans
4: The necromancer by Michael Scott
5: The memory book by Rowan Coleman
6: The never ending story by Michael Ende
7: Z by Teresa Fowler
8: Horns by Joe Hill (recommended)

2013 book's

Books I have read in 2013 

Jan

1: Edge of the world by John Gordon

2: The suspicions of Mr witched or the Murderer at road hill house by Kate Summer scale

3: The book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez

4: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (recommended)

5: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (recommended)

6: Assassination of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H Wolfe (recommended)

7: Secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (recommended)

8: My name is "O" by Sam Enthrone

9: Johnny Swanson by Eleanor Up dale

10: Lizzie's Wish by Adele Geras

11: Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

12: The Zombie Autopsies by Steven C Schlozman (recommended)

13: The Best British Short Stories 2011 by Nicholas Royal 

15: Kill All Enemies by Melvin Burgess

February

1: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

2: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

3: My Daughters Father by Hanna Pool

4: Chopper 8 by Mark Brandon

5: Till we have face by C.S Lewis 

6: The woman who went to bed for a year by Sue Townsend

7: The book of blood by Vicki Feaver (recommended)

8: World in torment by E.C. Tubb

9: War of the worlds by H.G Wells 

10: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (recommended)

11: The out lander by Gil adamson

12: Arctic Hero by Catherine Johnson

13: A night to remember by Walter Lord

14: Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

15: The Japanese devil fish and other unnatural attractions by Robert Rankin

16: In to the wild by Jon Krakauer

17: Miss Peregrines home of peculiar children by Ransom Riggs (recommended)

18: clouded vision by Linwood Barclay

19: Bloody Valentine by James Paterson

20: 1984 by George Orwell

March

1: The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

2: Friedrich by Han Peter Richter

3: What happened to the hippy man by Michael J Thexton

4: Shadow of the workhouse by Jennifer Worth

5: The desert kings pregnant bride by Annie West

6: The twelve tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

7: 30 days of night: fear of the dark by Tim Lebbon

8: Delirium by Laura Restrepo

9: Out lander by Diana Gabaldon

10: Gun, germ and steel by Jared Diamond

11: A room with a view by E.M Forster (recommended)

12: Pete Postlethwaite A Spectacle of Dust The Autobiography (recommended)

13: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

14: Married with zombies by Jesse Petersen (recommended)

15: Big hair day by Margaret Johnson

16: Arman's Journey by Philip Prowse

17: Love is blind by Kathy Lette

18: Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne

19: Requiem by Jack Ross

20: His Holiness The Dali Lama My Spiritual Autobiography (recommended)

21: Octo-pussy and The living daylights by Ian Fleming

22: From Russia with love by Ian Fleming

23: Slaughter house five by Kurt Vonnegut

24: From Russia with love I an Fleming

25: The green dwarf by Charlotte Bronte

26: The wonder of Brian Cox by Ben Falk

27: come on shore and we will kill you and eat you by Christina Thompson

28: The baby thief by Barbara Raymond

29: Live and let die by Ian Fleming

30: Gold-finger by Ian Fleming

31: Diamonds are forever by Ian Fleming

32: The silent gods: Mysteries of Easter island by Catherine Orliac

33: Gin and Dagger by Jessica Fletcher (recommended)

34: Martinis and Mayhem by Jessica Fletcher (recommended)

35: The great train robbery: the untold story from closed investigation files by Andrew Cook

36: Lets pretend this never happened by Jenny Lawson

April

1: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

2: Einstein: His life and the universe by Walter Isaacson (recommended)

3: Quantum of solace: the complete short stories by Ian Fleming

4: The Statistical Probability of love at first sight by Jennifer E Smith

5:Up the Junction by Nell Dunn

6: Viva by E.E Cummings

7: Murder at the powder horn ranch by Jessica Fletcher (recommended)

8: Behind the lost symbol by Tim Collins

9: Don't look behind you and the babysitter by Roy Apps

10: The hangover and Dead man drinking by Roy Apps

11: The party animal and don't look under the bed by Roy Apps

12: The bloody hook and Vanishing hitch-hiker by Roy Apps

13: People who like meatballs by Selima Hill

14: Inside by Julia Jarman

15: Star Girl by Jerry Spinnelie

16: 28 stories of Aids in Africa by Stephanie Nolan (recommended)

May

1: The Ghost Writer by Robert Harrison

2: Atonement by Ian McEwan (recommended)

3: The pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs by Christina Hopkins

4: Renegade by Mark Smith

5: The Cave by Kate Mosse

June

1: The voyage of the dawn treader by CS Lewis

2: I married you for happiness by lily Tuck

3: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

4: On the road by Jack Kercour

5: The 39 steps by John Buch

6: To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee

7: The girl with the pearl earring by Tracy Cavalier (recommended)

8: The help by Katharine Stockett (recommended)

July

1: Room by Emma Donahue

2: Impossible journeys by Matthew Lyons

3: Salmon fishing in the Yemen by Paul Tor day

4: The Ego trick by Julian Binni

5: Requiem of a dream by Hurber Selby Jr (recommended)

6: Unknown addresses by Kressman Taylor

7: Poems with attitude uncensored by Andrew peters

8: Love letters of great gentleman by Ursula Doyle (recommended)

9: The perks of Being a wallflower by Stephen SH bousky

10: Red Dragon Thomas Harris (recommended)

11: Storyteller: the life of Ronald Dahl by Donal Sturrock (recommended)

12: I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

13: She done him wrong by Mae west (recommended)

14: steamed by Katie McAllister

August

1: Bringing down the house by Ben Mezrich

2: Brave heart by Randall Wallace (recommended)

3: Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden

4: The last king of Scotland by Giless Folden

5: Love and death by Max Wallace

September

1: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

2: The woman in black by Suzann hill

3: 16 shade of crazy by Rachel Trezise

4: Beslan by Timothy Phillips (recommended)

5: The desperate wife's survival plan by Alison Sherlock

6: Under the Manhattan bridge by Irena Marcuse

7: Abraham Lincoln the vampire hunter by Seth Graham

8: The fault in our stars by John green

9: Paris noire by Jacques Yon net

October

1: Hanna's dream by  Diana Hammond (recommended)

2: Assassins creed - Resistance by Oliver bow den

3: The best of me by Nicholas sparks

4: I don't know how she does it by Allison Pearson (recommended)

5: The silver chair by c s Lewis

6: The magicians nephew by cs Lewis

7: The last battle by cs Lewis

8: Spartan by Valeria Manfred (recommended)

9: The Anubis gates by Tim powers

10: Shanghai girls by Lisa see (recommended)

11: the green mile by Stephen king (recommended)

12: American phyco by Bret Ellison

13: the boy who was born a girl by Jon smith

14: Keeper of the bride by Tess Gerittsen

15: don't look back by Laura Lippmann

16: The best exotic marigold hotel by Deborah moggach (recommended)

November

1: Michael Fassbender biography by Jim Malone

2: To kill Rasputin by Andrew cook

3: The lost symbol by Dan brown

4: Giulio's dream by Kim Robinson

5: Four blind mice by James Patterson

6: The sweetness of life by  Paulus Hochgatterer
7: Invisible Romans by Robbert Knapp

8: Prozac nation by Elizabeth wurzel

10: That's another story by Julia Walters

11: saint Joan of arc by V Sackville (recommended)

12: Body in the library by Agatha Christie

13: its been emotional by Vinnie Jones (recommended)

14: In the frame by Helen Moreen

15: Ulysses by James Joyce (recommended)

16: dead island by mark Morris

17: Apollo 13 Jim Lovell

18: Battleship by peter Davis (recommended)

19: supermodel chef by sue black hall

DECEMBER

1: Call of the wild by Jack London

2: Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck

3: The lucky one Nicholas sparks

4: The great influenza John Barry (recommended)

5: Charlie st cloud by Ben Sherwood (recommended)

6: Elenore Roosevelt by blanch cook

7: Dear John by Nicholas sparks

8: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

9: The man in the iron mask by Alex Dumas (recommended)

10: the wonderful wizard of oz by L Braum

11: In sanity: my mad life by Charles Bronson

12: The age of miracles by Karen Alker

13: Before we say good bye by Gabrielle Ambrosio

14: The last little blue envelope by Maureen Johnson

15: The diary of Adam and eve by mark twain

16: The peach keeper by Sarah Allen

17: Manhattens and murder by Jessica Fletcher (recommended)

18: Beauty queens by Libba Ray (recommended)

19: Sex us by Henry Miller

20: Bronson 3 up on the roof by Charles Bronson

21: The notebook by Nicholas sparks

22: The last godfather by Reg McKay

23: Extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Foer (recommended)

24: The hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam's

Poem: Dare.

Dare.

Dare is not about being a rebel, it's about being honest to yourself.
Dare to have a opinion.
Dare to make mistakes.
Dare to love.
Dare to stand behind your beliefs.
Dare to change.
Dare to be different.

Dare.

York Art Gallery

 

https://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk

you must check out this gallery when visiting York.

York Minster

https://yorkminster.org/home.html

https://yorkminster.org/home.html

Experience one of the top visitor attractions in York with a trip to York Minster. Regularly voted one of the most popular things to do in York, the Minster is not only an architecturally stunning building but is a place to discover the history of York over the centuries, its artefacts and treasures.

The Minster is open for sightseeing everyday as well as regular services, events and concerts.

I actually attended a small service in the Minister, the priest guy encouraged me to do so but I told him I am not religious and he said it ok just take what you want away from the service. I actually enjoyed being there it is a great and welcoming place.