Monday February 27th 2023

 I've finally managed to get some time to sit down and write my journal.  Lets start off with the basics, quite a few things have happened since my last entry; I will try and remember it all.

SP2 Hope café have closed for a while because Kim has left to concentrate on fostering, she was a brilliant manager and I'm going to miss her.  The last manager was called Lottie but I couldn't warm up to her like I did Kim, I don't think Lottie really understood my autism that much; apparently she now lives in Africa.

So I am going to try St Michaels community café, only problem is my buss pass has been stopped so I have to have £2 at the ready to get anywhere.  I'm hoping to get it sorted out with Fiona my support worker, Wiltshire Council are making it hard for disabled people to get anywhere.

On the news a woman called Nichola Bully vanished in Lancashire while walking her dog, police said she had fallen into the river after leaving her mobile on a bench.  I felt sorry for the husband as people said he didn't seem that upset, and were accusing him on Facebook of having something to do with her disappearance. They eventually found a body 23 weeks later, and dental records stated it was her.

 Turkey and Syria had an 7.8 earthquake on Monday two weeks ago killing 50,000, they've had another one since at 7.5 on the scale.  The quake was felt in Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt.  On Tuesdays I go to a community café at the Baptist church in Brown street, there is a man there called Louis who's family are Syrian and they are now homeless because of the quake; but they are alive which is good.  Serve On sent a team out there as did many other countries, people were still being pulled out of the rubble; including a baby who had just been born. 

 We think of Turkey being a hot country, but its their winter and the sub temperatures are terrifying and very cold.  Many Syrian people died under the rubble still waiting for rescue poor things, this is truly awful and must be recorded.  There is a group in Syria called the White helmets and they are very brave indeed.  Formed in 2014 because of the Syrian war their motto is 'to save a life is to save all humanity'. 

Sadly on the 5th day of the disaster the white helmets ended the rescue effort, and it became a recovery operation :(

Entire families have been wiped out of existence, one poor man lost 15 members.  And now they are getting aftershocks.

I went to a karaoke with Socialize Salisbury at the harlequins football club, it was one of the best evenings out.  I had the courage to get on stage and sing 'the night has a thousand eyes' by Bobby Vee.  in fact there was some very good singers including a man who sang and sounded like Elvis Presley.  One of the ladies got so drunk that she fell against the speaker while I was singing dancing Queen, and the bloody words vanished!  Luckily I knew the words by heart,  In the end Steven, Vasson and another man helped her into a taxi and took her home.