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[johnny9fingers]

I fucking hate locked wards.
I fucking hate waiting for ten minutes for someone to let you in...then the sounds of the keys and locks being fastened against any escape. It's a real 'Norman Stanley Fletcher' moment. And what's sad is he's not a danger to anyone but himself, so why lock him up?
Most of the others on the ward seemed okay, but I fear there were one or two predatory types, and a couple of crazies attracted to violent forms of self expression.
Jeremy is mad, however. He now thinks he's the 'real' Jimmy Page and is wondering where his royalties have got to....excepting, he also thinks he's a consultant psychiatrist employed by the hospital. If there are any violent chaps in with him I hope he doesn't antagonise them with his delusions.
The time travel delusional stuff has become more acute as well. He thinks one of the chaps on the ward with him is Juan (an old schoolchum). I tried telling him Juan was still in Oxford...but to no avail alas.
Fuckitfuckitfuckit.
Thank the Gods that he is at least not miserable.

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[shoarthing.livejournal.com]

. . poor Jim: give me a call if you're up to anything bar herbalised zizzing . . .

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I used to live with a guy who was mad as a march hare on acid. He stopped taking his meds once then went up and down the street with a hammer and smashed all the windscreens. T'was in Cambridge, just off Mill Road. Took him years to pay everybody off. Poor Harvey. I imagine he's just the same. I haven't heard from Leon for some time, either. Probably banged-up again.

Ennyhoo, on another subject. I'm thinking of starting off thursday morning, and thus (logically) arriving thursday evening. We can spend friday frolicking, then I'll set off home again on saturday.

Does this seem asmiss ?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Friday/Sat would be better this week because I have to go to Nick's in the evening to pick up keys (am cat feeding etc sometime on Sat); and I'm in TPA until 6pm Thurs anyway. If it's already set and tickets booked, then we'll find a way around it. I may bring the 'Twin' back from TPA. I have an electric piano in the room in which you'll be staying, as well as guitars, so, hopefully, you'll feel right at home. I could always bring my old-fashioned pedalboard back from TPA too, but this means cars and congestion charges and other bollocks.
Look forward to seeing you. I'll have to tidy up. Blast.

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

Don't we have to go to TPA to pick up the Leslie ? We could go in by tube and bring it back that way (it's got 2 handles, and it's not too heavy, if memory serves...). I'll probably arrive about 9pm thursday evening. I can make it friday if you like, but it'll mean coming home sunday, when everything (this side) is shut. Actually, shouldn't make that much difference. I'm bidding on a Hammond T200 that's in Kensal, and there's a guy in Pinner who has a Boss RT20 for me (and I have £100 for him). I'm on holiday, so it's pretty much all the same to me, I thought of thurs-sat to leave you free for an eventual gig on saturday evening.

I'm going 'round in circles...

Please decide for me.

:/

Have you started reading Flicker ?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The Leslie is at my place, not at TPA...so that's not a problem. It's just the keys I have to pick up from Nick. If you could get to mine for 8pm you could come with me, or I could leave you in the flat whilst I went to Wimbledon. Not gigging this Sat. but it's whatever suits you. m'dear. You have my address and I hope telephone number. If not email me and I'll mail you back.
Look forward to some six string workouts...I want to pick your brains about the Jazzier side of things, esp Django.
You can stay lomger if you'd like, but it is on a blow up mattress on the musicroom floor.
Regards.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

There are many open wards, for non-violent types. Bedlam is set in green fields and open parkland in the outer suburbs of London. Jeremy's problem is not that he's violent or aggresive, merely that he has been known to go 'walkies' from time to time. He seems constitutionally unable to cope with being told what to do: a dislike of authority, if you like.
He normally lives in sheltered accomodation within the ordinary community; and is a mad, though not unhappy member of it, existing perfectly happily in society at large.
His madness is real but not, I would think, dangerous.
To me, locking him away doesn't seem the right way of dealing with him, but I'm no expert.

[tripinthehead33.livejournal.com]

They are creepy, and it sounds as though he may take some crap.

I remember that I got into trouble for defending a girl who had gone catatonic from being raped from a man who was groping her in the middle of the little sitting room in the adult ward when I was 17 my first time in. He had his between her legs, and she was crying, but there was no sound, or change in facial expressions. It was slightly surreal, and took me a moment to actually get over my shock it was actually happened before I tried to tear him limb from limb.

Despite the fact that I, and two girls all said the man was doing what he was doing AND the fact that this catatonic girl had been reduced to a whimpering mess, they discounted everything said. They decided I was dangerous to everyone after they found me trying to kick in this mans door to his room to get to him. He ran away, and locked himself from harm and was LAUGHING, can you believe that? I so wanted to hurt him at that point it took 4 security guards to pull me off once I got the door kicked in. The girls were actually helping to fend the staff off from getting to me. Not one thing happened to the guy who was doing all of that either, the nurses were all worried about him and how he was feeling. I ended up locked down in my room for 3 days, and he was free to go. He ended up back to what he was doing within the hour. One of the girls had to hit him in the head with a chair to get him off of the catatonic girl. Like we all didn't have enough crap to deal with, let alone that poor girl going through that all over again? Ugh.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I don't think there were any women on his ward, which might have made things even worse for him when a younger and more attractive chap. I don't think he'll have too many worries on that account any more.