An Irish anti-vaccination spokesperson has popped up in the letters page of the Irish Independent . He's hoping to cash in on their rece...

Gordon's awards ceremony took place last night. The place was packed, and it was only when we were there that I realised how prestigious...

Who'd have guessed, a (mostly) accurate, informative article about autism in the media! The article in Wired , features Amanda Baggs a...

On Sunday morning, we went to the animal rescue centre to walk a dog, something we've done a few times now and which Lady in particular,...

The Irish media's coverage of ABA continues. Last Sunday, there was an opinion piece entitled " Disgraceful system that has failed ...

Last night, Gordon returned from a work trip to Cairo. He'd been looking forward to visiting Africa for the first time. Lady and Thomas ...

For much of Saturday, we were all in the car traversing the country in a south westerly direction. It was a beautiful, crisp day and somehow...

I've written a few times about the hype and inaccuracies about ABA in the Irish media recently. Well it continues. Here I examine and...

Lady takes piano lessons on Mondays, on Wednesdays she and Thomas have a gymnastics lesson one after the other and on Saturdays, they both a...

Today, February 12, is Darwin Day , a time to commemorate the life and work of Charles Darwin, born on this day 199 years ago, and the first...

Well fancy that, this blog is in the short list for the Best Specialist Blog in the 2008 Irish Blog Awards . There's going to be an awar...

After all my righteous anger in the previous 2 posts, here's something nice. I just booked to take all of us to Disneyland in Paris for ...

The Irish Independent is really working those autism stories this week. I just read another in-depth family interview , this time with the ...

Yesterday's Irish Independent contained a story about a family with two children who "suffer from autism." Both our beautiful ...

On Duncan's treasured Green Eggs and Ham CD Rom, there's a sample of a story called Stellaluna . He took an interest in this, and l...

I've got the best job in the world. For some reason, my 3 children are all total snuggle monkeys. They like nothing better than to climb...