Meditations From The Abyss

The musings of a poet, blogger, activist and social and political commentator with a 35 year history of depression. Always outspoken, always controversial, sometimes dark, sometimes humourous. Meditations From The Abyss is a proud member of the My Blogworld Forum on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/myblogworld/).

Monday, 9 May 2011

Mid-life blues

They say that life begins at 40. I have always had my doubts as to the validity of that statement. Unfortunately, in about three weeks t...

Struggling to make sense of life

I am struggling to find any meaning in life at the moment. I am trying to do the right and proper thing at the few bits of voluntary work ...

Friday, 6 May 2011

Why I voted 'Yes' to AV

Yesterday, I took part in the referendum on whether to change the current first-past-the-post electoral system to the Alternative Vote syste...

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Thurrock local election running commentary - The Final Conflict

And so Election Day is here… It should have been a wild ride of doorstep debates with eager candidates vying for my vote; instead, it’s bee...

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

It doesn't pay to try to do what's right!

People wonder why I don’t want to get involved with the rest of the human race and I usually give the answer that getting involved just comp...

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

On the assessment ward part 2

Please note: This part of my account is written from memory and not from what was written at the time. The timeline may be a little screwe...

Saturday, 30 April 2011

Letter to the Thurrock Gazette

So Jackie Doyle-Price is against the change to the Alternative Vote system - who could have possibly predicted that? Well, everyone really....

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