Bloody hell. Crazy week.
All geared up for taking small human bean trick or treating on Monday night, then heading home to light a Samhain fire. Sounds simple; leave work, pick D up from friend's after school, zoom her to Jo's to get into her zombie costume (made by her 13 yr old sister), let a bunch of young un's scare locals and get high on E numbers, meet 13 yr old B and her friend C, all go home to mine.
get a call from B about 4 - can C stay at ours as had row with her mum? Yup. get to Jo's at 5.30, text from B, asking where I am, tell her, then 2 minutes later she and C barrel through the door with C sobbing and crying. Jo scoops up all small human beans and goes off - basically C tells me her brother beat her up and throttled her at her stepdads where they were getting changed, then her mum showed up (they are divorced now) and swore at her and B, then drove after them, assaulted C to point of C screaming and crying and a local resident asking B should he call the police (d'uh!!), and then they found me at Jo's. LONG history of C's mum having series of domestic violence relationships which kids witness, plus seeing her trying to hang herself.
I know.
I had to make an official call the next morning. B went into shock at school the next day, broke down completely. She's never witnessed stuff like that. And I think realised how often C DOES see it. She wanted to report it to the police. So they came over last night to take statements.
I felt like I was still in work. But glad I knew what to do.
So, Tuesday night, the party and the stress of Monday caught up with me, and I fell asleep putting D to bed, then came down and fell asleep on sofa again, then woke up at midnight and went to bed! Last night was not vastly different!
This weekend, neighbours (crazy loons who have random parties and bonfires and drink wine round them) are having firework party on Sat, as is tradition, which involves kiddies making and burning a guy, and adults getting rather pissed; Sunday, is D's 7th birthday!! It's the mad playbarn experience! ;)
Keeping in my thoughts everyone who needs cwtchs and love and then some for those who think they don't :D
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