Stop the world...I want to get off

Stop the world... I want to get off.

Not forever, just for a little while. I think a fortnight would do.

All the balls I had up in the air have fallen on my head and now I am flailing around in a ball pit like a drunken seal.

A fortnight, to start at one end of my world and spring clean through the bitch until I come out of the other side like a beautiful "I've got my shit together" butterfly.

I know I am not the only one. Everyone has problems and a lot of you wonderful people handle them with a hell of a lot more finesse than I can muster.

It shouldn't take me 20 minutes to decide to take a shower and I shouldn't wonder around aimless for two hours because its my day off and I would normally have met Mum.

I can't pack up and live here, I know.

I had to visit here in order to get where I am heading....but in the mean time, can someone just handle all the adult stuff for me?

I'll be in the corner, writing my blog and facebooking about cats. Cheers

P.S I just read a news article about a person who was arrested after floating down a river in their wheelie bin, drinking a bottle of wine. I swear it wasn't me....today anyway

Heirisson Island: City of Perth, Shame on you

Don't you think that if a protest site of around 60 or so people turns into a make shift homeless shelter with numbers above 150, that there is underlying problem??

Don't you think that the fact that these people waited for this morning and moved straight back into the camp means they haven't got a choice? or at least a humane choice?



Its such a privileged 1st world response to "Move them on". Where exactly? The thousands of beds we provide for the homeless and vulnerable? Oh thats right, they don't exist.

There is a solution to that you know.

Let them stay.

Provide a large amount of skip bins and portable toilets and showers. Have rangers do inspections every day to keep the place safe, whatever you think you need to do to make things "official" for the pen - pushers. But let them stay.

So far today, Ive seen a lady with one leg in a wheelchair asleep in the middle of  Hay street mall, and about 15 other of my regular homeless people, who I see everyday. Its before 10am.

If having a place to camp and clean up, means letting them stay at Heirisson Island, then so be it. This problem of homelessness has been swept under the carpet for too long, the City of Perth hasn't provided the services and places needed to cope with this. Let them have trees and nature and a place in this world that isn't a square of concrete to beg from.

Let them stay, because until now you haven't given a shit where they are as long as they don't make your pretty park "dirty" and you can't see them. They aren't so invisible now are they?

(Photos from sbs.com and perthnow.com)