That was the week, that was.

I would like, if I may, to take you on a journey.

This week has been a long week for many reasons.  A lot of them are to do with work so obviously I can't talk about them, other than to say 'aaarrrrgghhhhh, pass the alcohol', but there have been other things too.

Early in the week I opened the boot of the car, for some reason it didn't go right up and I managed to smack my head off the boot catch.  After wobbling around the Tesco car park for a minute or two I checked that there was no blood and carried on to work.

The next morning, washing and brushing my hair was fun.  Not.

Thursday I had had my shower and was cleaning my teeth, as my bathroom is quite small, the sink overhangs the bath.  I heard a rustling noise and then the shower curtain, complete with rail fell down, the end of the rail hitting me on the back of the head.

Friday I thought I had escaped without injury, but when I got into my pyjamas I found a mystery bruise.  No idea where from.

This morning I went to do my big shop and was at Asda for 7.30am.  Apart from buying a seemingly inordinate amount of tinned goods the shopping went as planned.  On the way back I cut through a side road to avoid an incredibly busy and confusing roundabout, it saves so much time and horn blowing.  

I rounded a bend to find a Police car in the middle of the road and Police lining the pavements, every car was waved to a stop.  Apparently a foreign student has gone missing and they were questioning all motorists.

What???

Vulnerable people go missing and I NEVER see any sign of a local investigation, but a young, healthy, foreign student goes missing, it could well be by choice if they do not want to go back home, and people are stopped and questioned.  I hope nothing has happened to them, but if I had info I would go to the Police, I wouldn't need to be stopped with frozen food in the boot.

It may just be another side to my black and white life, but my parents were not impressed when I told them having been victims of crime themselves twice in the past with very little support from the Police (once was a burglary, the other burning matter was pushed through the letterbox).

I am hoping next week will be better.

Payout for child fathered by deep cover PC.

It has been on the news the last couple of days that a woman 'Jacqui' has been awarded nearly half a million pounds in compensation for having a baby with a deep undercover Police Officer.

Apparently he was part of team created to infiltrate protest groups back in the mid 80s and she was one of the activists under investigation.

According to the BBC report, fellow former SDS officer Peter Francis told Radio 4's Today programme that sex was "used by almost everybody who was serving in that unit".

He added that undercover officers were "expected, not ordered" to "engage in relationships" and that while there was no policy on becoming involved in sexual relations, there was "no policy saying that you couldn't either".

Now I have read the report a few times and can see no mention of a gun being held to Jacqui's head forcing her to have sex.

There is no mention of her having a gun held to head forcing her to keep the child.

The sex was obviously consensual.

To all intents and purposes, Jacqui had a relationship with a man, didn't marry him but had his child and he then disappeared.  Unfortunately, this is not an unusual occurrence.

So why is this pay out of taxpayers' money justified?