tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post5833344358425938970..comments2023-07-18T07:27:08.516+00:00Comments on Siren Voices: LazarusSpence Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-37281821497638262052008-02-26T19:30:00.000+00:002008-02-26T19:30:00.000+00:00Nevertheless... if you do start it up again, let m...Nevertheless... if you do start it up again, let me know!<BR/>S.Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-76472409697296007702008-02-26T18:27:00.000+00:002008-02-26T18:27:00.000+00:00No blog, sorry. I started one a few years ago but ...No blog, sorry. I started one a few years ago but it died from lack of sustenance. I have a very boring life - work, housework, looking after the animals, cooking & eating, etc etc blah blah one day very like another. Not complaining, that's the way I like it!Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13974206679853189199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-79521300908902436042008-02-26T15:54:00.000+00:002008-02-26T15:54:00.000+00:00Hi Judith,Thanks for the comment. I was talking to...Hi Judith,<BR/>Thanks for the comment. <BR/>I was talking to a friend the other day about whether all the down-at-heel jobs and sad situations puts us off the town we work in. But for both of us it was still a resounding no! We do tend to get a rather skewed view of things in some ways. And in terms of this blog, I think I should try a bit harder to get across all the positive situations we deal with - and there are lots (although reading my posts that might surprise you). <BR/>NZ sounds great. I think if there were two places I'd emigrate to, it'd be NZ or Canada. I fancy myself as a bit of a backwoodsman. Tracking moose. Building a cabin, that kind of thing (but no doubt that's the equivalent of thinking everyone in England talks like a Cockney and staggers about in the fog?<BR/>Have you got a blog about your life in NZ? I'd be interested to read it!<BR/>Regards,<BR/>S.Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-10995850132746843562008-02-26T05:17:00.000+00:002008-02-26T05:17:00.000+00:00Hello SpenceAnother great post, thanks. Your blog,...Hello Spence<BR/>Another great post, thanks. Your blog, and others like Tom Reynolds & Inspector Gadget, give a picture of life in the UK that I don't find in the papers or on TV. A real eye-opener for me sitting at my computer in the heart of peaceful rural NZ (surrounded by sheep and cows, not very many people!).Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13974206679853189199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-79392776402321375062008-02-24T21:37:00.000+00:002008-02-24T21:37:00.000+00:00Hi Jason,Thanks for your comments. If I made the g...Hi Jason,<BR/>Thanks for your comments. If I made the girl sound blase about her baby dying, it wasn't intentional. I think she felt the loss very keenly. In fact, when the guy came round from all the resuscitative fuss, her overwhelming response was anger, and she had to take herself into the bathroom to calm down. What I was trying to do was present the scene as it unfolded - with her comment about losing her baby ( for me, the most shocking thing about the whole scene) - just one more fact, to put alongside the beer cans and the trash and the foetid air. <BR/>I don't think that was his first time with heroin. The track marks in his arm nailed that one. But it's amazing how people will tell you these things despite all the evidence to the contrary, and despite us saying we're not the police and it doesn't make any difference to us.<BR/>drunkenspaniel - yep, this <I>is</I> a familiar scene. I've dealt with a dozen respiratory arrests due to heroin so far, one fatal. Quite often the response to being dragged back from the brink is surprisingly casual. Sometimes it's aggressive, as in 'I paid good money for that hit'. Hard to understand mostly, but I suppose if it's a profound experience of perfect peace, then a little more understandable. It all depends what you feel you have to lose.<BR/>S.Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-66755616391219771352008-02-23T09:04:00.000+00:002008-02-23T09:04:00.000+00:00What made me shake my head in sympathy is that thi...What made me shake my head in sympathy is that this scene is oh-so-common, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>Amazing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-73541506901099320902008-02-22T23:18:00.000+00:002008-02-22T23:18:00.000+00:00Hi Spence,Haven't posted before - but thought I sh...Hi Spence,<BR/><BR/>Haven't posted before - but thought I should just so you know that people appreciate the effort you put into your posts, and the style in which you write them.<BR/><BR/>This was definetly one that makes people (me at least) think deeply about some of the work you do - reviving people who seem to be happy to kill themselves, just a couple of questions about it though:<BR/><BR/>1) You make (in my opinion anyway) the girl that lost her baby sound rather blase about it - is that they way she really was (and if so was it drug induced), or am I reading it wrong?<BR/><BR/>2) Do you really think the man was genuine when he said it was the first time he had taken heroin? I suspect everyone tells a similar story.....<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>JasonUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055839107551617685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-38985806751493054802008-02-21T18:16:00.000+00:002008-02-21T18:16:00.000+00:00Thanks, Emily.It's weird about drugs. I mean, I un...Thanks, Emily.<BR/><BR/>It's weird about drugs. I mean, I understand why people take them (I imagine it's just an extension of why people drink, or get addicted to painkillers) - but with heroin it often seems as if their whole life becomes dedicated to the drug. It's all there is - a tough, all consuming kind of religion - and it doesn't matter what's happening, what's said or done, the only thing is the next hit. For us it's fire-fighting of the lamest kind. Certainly with this guy, his days are numbered. And it's such a shame, because he seemed nice enough!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading the blog, btw.<BR/><BR/>S.Spence Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183848895584919812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27691111.post-80255373546393669492008-02-21T15:06:00.000+00:002008-02-21T15:06:00.000+00:00Nicely written.Drugs are such a waste of so many l...Nicely written.<BR/><BR/>Drugs are such a waste of so many lives :(Shadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921637621437149288noreply@blogger.com