Our Prime Minister recently announced a Royal Commision into child abuse by the church. It will take years and will barely scratch the surface. It won't even look into abuse of children in the care of the state (foster kids).

Any form of ill-treatment of a child sickens me. As a teacher in Queensland, we have mandatory reporting. We MUST report any incident of a child being in harm or risk of harm. Unfortunately it takes months so etimes before these are even investigated, during which time we still have to deal with parents, because we just report, we don't judge or investigate.

But as much as abuse sickens me, it also saddens me that in this day and age, we can't even hug a child if they are hurting. It's even worse for male teachers.

Matron~

I finally found a Jasper fic that has sucked me in, wanted to lyk in case you haven't read this one:

Full Circle by circe290

Set five years after Edward left, Bella and Jasper have formed a tentative friendship, and she finds herself coming full circle, immersed in the Cullen family once again, but under very different circumstances.

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There's also a sequel, The Sword and the Shield

When it's not available anymore, a pretty good dupe is some cherry syrup (non-alcoholic, so no Kirsch for drunky Astro) and then whatever Coke you want. You can buy cherry syrup for pretty cheap on Amazon and it lasts ages.

One of the WIPs I'm reading is, in my eyes, basically finished. An epilogue or two and it'd be perfect. However, the author has now warned us there's going to be angst coming up so no doubt there's at least another 10 or so chapters. I hate when authors drag a story on and on!

Don't be suprised if ol' postie asks you out sometime soon after seeing those..
A Prescription for Love by Tufano. Not bad but not great, at this point I'm just reading because I want to see it finished! Amazon has loads of food items and is how I feed my peanut butter M&M addiction. My Dad also sent me 300 or so teabags from there last year as a 'present'. English life
And that's how my Nanna made it for me on 'special occasions' when I was little! Seeing it in EP was a cute nostalgia trip.

Matron~

I finally found a Jasper fic that has sucked me in, wanted to lyk in case you haven't read this one:

Full Circle by circe290

Set five years after Edward left, Bella and Jasper have formed a tentative friendship, and she finds herself coming full circle, immersed in the Cullen family once again, but under very different circumstances.

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There's also a sequel, The Sword and the Shield

Bummer! It's not very good then??

There were only 2 chapters in all of that that had the Cullens in it? Who the hell is in this fic then?

I'll wait to give it a shot until after you give your final word.

I had the same reaction to Finding My Thunder...everyone raved about that fic....I managed to finish it (mostly because I kept thinking something big is going to happen for everyone to be so in love with this....nothing did) but could not understand wtf was so great about it.

Oh, dear...I might have to flounce TWBB. It's really cringingly badly written and cheesy as all hell; the characterization is all over the place and though I will give this young man props for putting his story out there, I can't believe he's in college; surely still being in school it should be easier to remember rules of grammar?    I'm going to make a cup of tea and then I'll see..

You did my darling girl, you did...I'm on chapter 12, I just want to see what happens once mobward gets into idiotella's knickers and then...*shrug* I doubt there'll be much left to the plot.