SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH: AN UNGRATEFUL CHILD

Can u believe this - Mei Li and David are back in Brit and staying in Manchester at Josh and Sandy's place. What an insult! She never even bothered to let me know she was back. I found out when I switched on Entertainment Tonight.

What an ungrateful bitch she is. I spent three nights in that hovel in the jungle just to help her out. Well I ask you, who could be fagged watching a boring doco about trees - the only reason it'll rate is because I presented it. And you wouldn't believe the accommodation, all of us, (family and the crew), had to stay in the longhouse.

What a hovel! No power and no sanitation. It makes me shudder just thinking about the rats and bugs It's a wonder I didn't catch typhoid or leprosy, even.

I told Benny never again. It was all right for him and Josh off with the men to cock fights and hunting and fishing trips, roaring drunk every night on jungle juice. Me, I was stuck with those god-awful twins and a bunch of illiterate women - they couldn't even speak English, for crying out loud.

Sandy was no company always with her head in a book. I don't know what Josh sees in her ... the fat cow. And as for Mei Li, the way she idolizes that so-called grandmother, makes me want to puke. I mean what about me ... I'm her mother for christsake.

Ann Massey
http://www.annmasseyauthor.net/
Author of:
The White Amah, a mystery set against the backdrop of the timber logging industry in Malaysia. Sample or purchase: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456578065
The Biocide Conspiracy, a Young Adult thriller that sweeps readers into the world of bio-warfare. Sample or purchase; http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456503367

Blast from the Past

Can't freaking believe it. Got a text message from, wait for it ... Imelda. Can you believe the poor cow is still in jail. It must be going on for eighteen years. I was just going to delete the text and change my number but Benny said it would be professional suicide. Can you believe he wants me to go and see her and the rest of the girls. YG2BK? Well as if?

The twins are back at school. The ungrateful brats asked if they could live permanently in that jungle shack. I'd have let them but Benny put his foot down ... again. He wanted me to have them live here with me. Fortunately Hari started to cry, so that put an end to that nonsense. The thing about Benny is he's so old fashioned about family, I can't believe he actually drove them up to the Highlands himself. What does he think I pay a driver for?

That reminds me I bumped into Ann Massey, the cow looks seventy, if she's a day. What a frump. She can't be selling many books she looks like she shops at the op shop. Asked her again about writing my biography. Anyone would think she didn't like me. She just mumbled something about a new book about bioterrorism coming out in a month. Bio-terrorism I ask you. Who'd want to read that when they could be finding out more about me!!!
Ann Massey
http://www.annmasseyauthor.net/
Author of:
The White Amah, a mystery set against the backdrop of the timber logging industry in Malaysia. Sample or purchase: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456578065
The Biocide Conspiracy, a Young Adult thriller that sweeps readers into the world of bio-warfare. Sample or purchase; http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456503367

Mother of the Voodoo- Bride

How can I face my fans? Today my daughter was married in a voodoo ceremony. At one stage it looked like the ceremony might not go ahead when the groom balked at killing the sacrificial pig. David went as white as a sheet when Entri, (Mei Li's supposed grandfather) told him to slaughter this pig that was tied up in front of the long house. Gross!!! I really felt for him. Of course, the TV crew lapped it all up. Hard to think what was the most cringe making moment. But that time when the witch doctor guy waved a black chicken over Mei Li and David's heads takes some beating.

Ann Massey
http://www.annmasseyauthor.net/
Author of:
The White Amah, a mystery set against the backdrop of the timber logging industry in Malaysia. Sample or purchase: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456578065
The Biocide Conspiracy, a Young Adult thriller that sweeps readers into the world of bio-warfare. Sample or purchase; http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456503367

Zero Tolerance

Feeling pissed..  Can't understand why Benny insists I bring the twins along.  WITP ... they were perfectly  happy in their boarding school.  It isn't as if the doco has anything about African orphans.  It's about saving trees for Christsake.  Now he says I should have them live with me when we go home. NFW!!!!!
Ann Massey
http://www.annmasseyauthor.net/
Author of:
The White Amah, a mystery set against the backdrop of the timber logging industry in Malaysia. Sample or purchase: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456578065
The Biocide Conspiracy, a Young Adult thriller that sweeps readers into the world of bio-warfare. Sample or purchase; http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456503367