Last week we had a family trip to Scarborough, which has become a favourite destination for us as a family in recent years for short weekend breaks. Oliver isn’t keen at all on beaches or the sea, but there are enough other things to do there to keep him happy, so we felt pretty confident […]
Hello All, and sorry it’s been a while since I last posted anything on these pages. The fact is, things were muddling along quite well for a while, but me being me, I had to put a spanner in the works. To cut a long story short, I was made redundant from my job of […]
Today I took Oliver out by myself whilst Louise took George out to a local fun day. We decided against taking Oliver to this as we knew it would not be something he would react well to. So I took Oliver to a local park that I know he likes. I thought what could possibly […]
1). Oliver has no sense of danger Oliver has absolutely no concept of danger whatsoever. There are numerous examples that can be cited and in all probability I will kick myself for some others that I forget to put in this post once I have published it. Most notably however, Oliver likes to climb on […]
A couple of Sundays ago, I found myself in charge of both of the children for a whole day whilst Louise had a much deserved spa day with her sister. It was an unusual day in that I had no other refuge available to me, as Louise’s parents were out that day, and I didn’t […]
I felt I simply had to post here on World Autism Awareness Day. I’d love to post more often, but day to day life gets in the way. At the end of a busy working day, I go home to the manic tea, bath and bedtime routine. The boys are normally in their beds by […]
Thanks to Louise, I am a keen fan of Harry Potter, and one of my favourite Albus Dumbledore lines (apart from “I’d like a nice cup of tea or perhaps a large brandy”) is when he says “There will come a time when we must choose between what is right, and what is easy”. This […]
You know when I said I would post more back in September? Well, turns out I lied – sorry about that! I really like the idea of blogging and I really want to do it, but things just get in the way. Things like work, day to day family life, tiredness, laziness, and a general […]
Have any of you ever seen a film called Clockwise? It stars John Cleese as the organised and punctuality obsessed Head Teacher of a Comprehensive School in the early 1980s, who is greatly looking forward to giving a speech to a Headmasters conference in the City of Norwich. His day unravels disastrously though when he […]
Happy New Year everybody, and I’m so sorry I haven’t posted in such a long time. The last few months of 2012 were among the worst of my life, a real test of character, and there was one final insult before the year ended when Louise and I got the winter flu virus from hell. […]
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