Got caught up at the margins of a situation yesterday – a former colleague whom I barely knew included me in an email shot to people in KL about a Pakistani woman, uneducated, at risk of extreme domestic violence from her husband. The woman herself called me at 2 in the morning and I spent much of the night ringing shelters to no avail and trying to think what I could do. The husband had been picked up by the police so she was temporarily safe but needed to find a shelter with her four children while her family arranged for tickets home. Finally in the morning a shelter was reached but couldn’t do anything without speaking to her. Finally they seem to have connected with her and she is on her way. Nothing like making one feel both responsible and useless.
Just electrocuted myself. All the bulbs in the bathroom but one have now fused. I think an electrician will be required.