Review : Troubles Shared: The Story of a Settlement 1899-1979 JOYCE RIMMER Phlogiston Publishing (318 Summer Lane, B19 3RL)
| Author | Jack Porter |
| Published date | 01 September 1981 |
| Date | 01 September 1981 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455058102800419 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
And if ’non-aiming’ results in ’hitting the
not just ’off the cuff’, as you may have
target’ who defines the target, and how?
thought, and I am therefore now prepar-
’Letting go’ may be frightening, it also
ing my sincere apologies to the local
seems to me to be myopic, ineffectual
publicity officer.
and self-indulgent. Perhaps it is ’easier’
I did not receive the promised ’edited
to work with clearly defined contracts
proofs’, for if I had, my second com-
(and by implication less ’rewarding’?)
plaint would have been made unneces-
but if I were a client I know which
sary. I have been in the Service for 24
system I would prefer and whose words
years, and so far as I am aware, there
I would find the more confusing. Finally,
has never been another officer of the
if anyone still thinks that the aims of the
same surname, so it should not have been
Probation Service are ’easily achievable’
too difficult to ascertain my Christian
they must already be living the hermit-
name which is RONALD, not RICH-
like existence on a remote mountain that
ARD.
I recommend to Bob Anderson as the
My final comment refers to the para-
best venue for the attainment of ’pur-
graph headed ’The Harbour’,-‘cobbles’
poselessness through purpose’:
are rounded stones, ’cobles’ (as per my
Yours faithfully,
draft) are a type of fishing boat.
IAN HANKINSON
However, my feelings about all this
Probation Officer, Marathon Beach
were assuaged somewhat on receipt of a
Hotel, Nea Makri, Attiki, Greece.
letter from an 82 years old ex-probation
officer., Annie M. L. Hayden, formerly of
Complaints &
Mistakes
Hull and now of Barrow in Furness, who
Dear Sir,
says that she enjoyed reading my article
On return to the office recently after
which brought back many memories for
annual holidays, the Probation Jouri7al,
her, and in expression of her thanks she
with other papers, was awaiting my per-
has enclosed a cheque of £50 as her
usal and I...
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