Park and write: Wanderingscribe
I have just come across this story on the BBC of a homeless women who blogs about the experience of living in her car in London:
“It's a tale of our time - about being cut off from everything around you but still connected to people thousands of miles away.
A woman becomes homeless, so she gets into her car and drives. Except she has nowhere to go - so she stays in the car, with all her possessions heaped in the back, sleeping in the front seats, parking in secluded streets.
For eight months, no one notices her, because she makes sure she looks respectable, taking showers and even ironing her clothes in public places like hospitals. She has made herself invisible, out of touch from anyone she used to know - and keeping separate from other homeless people.
But this is the information age. And even though she doesn't speak to anyone, she can go into a library where she can access the internet and write an online journal - a homelessness blog - which she uses to describe all her unspoken experiences and feelings.”
An interesting and moving commentary on our times, how someone can be so isolated and yet so connected!
posted by Denise Carter @ 7:46 AM
12 Comments:
You might want to look at another blog called Ditch Monkey but in this case the situation is more voluntary.
Btw - I could not comment unless I had a blogger account (most annoying!). My "real" site is called Wrote.
Interesting, for within my little ethnographic case study on homelessness in Bremen, Germany, locklessness regarding property issues in daily life and the nonexistance of a capsule-like private space as appartments and cars are, stroke me. So much that I considered locklessness to be one of the main characterics of being homeless.
Thx.
At last I am free to tell you all my friends about my wonderful news.
Come visit my new site at WanderingScribe’s Journey for more details.
Kindest Regards,
WS
WanderingScribe : The Book
Abandoned:
The True Story of a Little Girl Who Didn't Belong
by Anya Peters
Synopsis tell us more about her background than she let out in her blog:
'Abandoned' is the true story of a childhood full of secrets, abuse and a little girl who didn't belong. This inspirational story is about how one woman finally overcame her traumatic childhood and adult homelessness to find a place she could call home. 'Abandoned' tells the heartbreaking story of a little girl's abusive childhood and her subsequent homelessness as an adult.
Born illegitimately to Irish lovers, Anya was given away by her real mother and brought up in England by her loving aunt. However, her childhood with her new family was far from happy - verbally and sexually abused for years, Anya finally cracked and shopped her violent uncle, resulting in his imprisonment. After his imprisonment and a few months before her twelfth birthday, Anya lost her whole family overnight. They didn't die, although they might as well have done; they just went away, abandoning her. There was no one else to care, so Anya pretended that she didn't either. She learnt to shut down, and not to let anybody in. She thought that she had worked through it all, overcome it.
But then, several years later, through a series of unrelated problems, her life imploded again. Several things ended together: a job, a relationship, money, luck - and she ended up homeless and living in her car in a laneway at the edge of the woods.
To be published on 8 May 2007
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Harper Element
ISBN: 0007245726
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abandoned-Story-Little-Didnt-Belong/dp/0007245726/
World Vison did an interview of Anya.
Voice files in MP3 format are at
http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/radio.nsf/stable/wvradiostory_102206_anyapeters
Obviously a fake.
I started to read it but it's so "waffley".
If she thinks she's an author then there's a rude awakening somewhere down the line.
But the "anti-blog" is quite amusing.
In facct, give the book deal to the alternative wanderingscribe as he/she is much more entertaining !!
How kind.
Sadly for the great unwashed public (who suck up the kind of waffley tripe that Anya produces), I am not in it for the book deal.
My literary aspirations are limited to exposing frauds and charlatans like Anya.
Gawd bless ya for dropping by my humble little bloggette though.
The more peeps that know about the con, the better.
fawning obsequiess hugsssss.....
Anya Peters
I agree.
The anti blog is far better written and exudes an air of realism which is far removed from the wanderingscribe one.
How many people see fairies dancing in the woods?
Only nutters on crack cocaine !
A word of warning to the general public: there is fake blogger pretending to be wanderingscribe/anya peters who leaves comments - often malicious - around the internet under her name.
Real name of Wanderingscribe is
Anya McGrath
Anya McGrath is the name she used to register with PayPal and solicit money from unsuspecting public. It must be the correct name or else she would not have been able to transfer funds from PayPal to her bank account.
Now some of you know the area where she live. How about doing some research (voters list, etc) and expose the whereabouts are true background of this liar and a cheat?
Wandering Scribe is the internet name of a blogger who published under the name of Anya Peters, who falsely claims to have been a homeless woman. Her actual name may be Anya McGrath, as this was the name of her PayPal accout she used when she was asking for donations on her blog[1] . She came to the attention of the public in April 2006, when her blog was featured in an article in the New York Times and by the BBC in their online magazine. [2]
Anya Peters falsely described herself as a law graduate, who had come to be homeless after a mental breakdown following a bad relationship and debts. She falsely claimed to be living in her car in some woods in central London, illegaly entering and taking showers in a local hospital, fraudulently receiving benefits from the British government, and stating that the social security did not know she was homeles, though she could not explain away the fact that the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions), would insist on proof of address, or in the case of a PWA, (person Without an Address) or NFA, (No Fixed Abode), a correspondence address for which proof would also be required. Further, the DWP requires proof of job seeking activity, and payments would be sanctioned if none were provided at the fortnightly signing interview. Proof, as if any were needed, that the whole story was and is a hoax, and was merely a cynical attempt to dupe a stupid blog reading public into buying the aforementioned book. She further claimed that her personal pride and fear prevented her from accepting any form of assistance from the authorities, (but was claiming benefit from those very same Authorities) and that there were no friends or family to whom she could turn. The blog's author also mentioned that she had written an (unpublished) novel and that she harboured feelings of jealousy for another homeless blogger who had received some sort of book deal because attention was drawn to his plight. In one post, Anya wondered whether any "blog trawling" literary agents might read her blog.
The blog is written in a 'watching paint dry' style, with many spelling and grammatical errors. Frequently, posts are very long, mundane and quite boring to read. The blogger makes occasional references to an unhappy childhood, an early plug for the forthcoming fictional "Autobiography".
Anya falsely claimed to have been rescued from her situation when a literary agent spotted her blog after it appeared as the subject of a magazine article by the BBC online and was impressed by her writing skills. The blog reports how she had been commissioned to write a full length book but did not reveal the subject matter beyond saying that it concerned how she became homeless. The BBC published another article saying that the blogger had "written herself out" of her situation.
Since this Anya made only a handful of new posts, in which she mentions that she is no longer homeless and including a lengthy post in which she describes a visit to her father in Ireland, where she tells him about her upcoming autobiography, a form of advertising she used regularly in her Blog.
The book was subsequently advertised on Amazon UK as being titled "Abandoned" and being an autobiography of Anya Peters abusive childhood
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