Consider This...

We've lived in Wigan for almost 4 years. During this time our house has been up for sale for around a year in total. It is no secret that we do not like Wigan and that we want out.
Moving on to Alisha. This woman is thousands of miles away from her family and has been for 6 years now. In this time she has been home once for a couple of weeks, her brother has visited once, as has her mother. This is the total contact that Alisha has had with anyone from her family in this time. No-one understands exactly how she feels. Most people in our ward live within walking distance of their family so they never will understand how she feels.
She does EVERYTHING on her own without support from anyone but me. This is causing her to become very upset. On top of this she has been belittled by people who should know better.
Four years in Wigan and how many people here actually know much about her? How many people invite her to do things as a friend? This is summed up perfectly in that a couple of weeks ago two sisters in the ward were talking about an activity right in front of Alisha and didn't even consider asking if Alisha would be interested in attending. The fact is that, in order for Alisha to find someone to talk to or spend time with she has to drive 30 minutes to Chorley.
What does this tell me? It tells me that there are people in Wigan that go along their merry way and get offended if Alisha expresses her feelings.
I wanted to put this post up before Alisha made the blog private so that those people with their torches and pitch-forks can take aim at me instead of her.
Alisha thinks that she should try to apologise to everyone that might take the slightest offence at a half-sentence from one of her blog entries. I don't think she should. People have read far too much into it and blown it completely out of proportion.
This is the only time that anyone in Wigan has paid any attention to Alisha at all and for what?
So if people decide to give us the cold shoulder because of what we have written here then fair enough - it'll be the same as every other Sunday.
So that's all I have to say except for the fact that this blog is the intellectual property of Lee and Alisha Whitfield (as well as Google). Making copies (i.e. printing) of the posts on here is a breach of copyright.