Author Archives: Jacssisters

In defence of childhood

We almost missed an excellent initiative by a group of writers, back in January of this year, in petitioning Oxford University Press to reverse their exclusion from the Oxford Junior Dictionary of many examples of the vocabulary and vernacular of British nature — including, incredibly, ‘acorn’, ‘bluebell’, ‘conker’ — in some misguided attempt at ‘modernisation’. We ask you!!! Continue reading

Jac’s birthday

The 12th. of March would have been our sister’s birthday, had she lived. We all still miss her dreadfully…

Those who read our site are aware that we have been covering many of the issues which arose from Jac’s ill-fated relationship with Jim Perrin; and as other details have been made known to us by women who were similarly involved with him we have written about them also.

That the last remaining months of Jac’s life were so strained and troubled by his frequently insensitive and mentally cruel and controlling behaviour was to add only further distress to her present fear as she tried valiantly to survive the cancer with which she had been stricken: yet, if Jim Perrin had not written about her as he did, with his flagrant and shameful dishonesty, we would not have had the incentive to establish ‘jacssisters’ nor to determine ‘to set the record straight’ for her sake.

As was said at the beginning: All statements on this website are either:

  • Supported by documentary proof,
  • Supported by credible testimony, or
  • Opinion reasonably held, given the evidence

…and this remains as much the case as ever.

Jac’s sisters.

“We wish you a Merry Christmas…

Holly2As 2014 slips away we do thank all our readers for your support throughout the year; and here it is worth remembering that while the purpose of our site is to set the record straight on behalf of our sister, with no idea where the trails which we follow will lead, we had not realised that the details we post would resonate with others who have had the misfortune, as did Jac, to become involved with Jim Perrin. But, to our surprise, such has been the case. Therefore we are grateful to all who have helped us in so many ways; your comments, information, research and professional expertise have been invaluable—together, of course, with the all-important technical assistance without which, being completely technophobic, we would have no site at all.

Really it has been, as one of our followers recently suggested: ‘a combined effort,’ and we acknowledge and most warmly thank everyone who has chosen to contribute.

So: …we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas—and a Happy New Year.”

Jac’s sisters: Elisabeth Simpson, Caroline Hardaker and Alex Richardson.