I was given this here award by Dave (or d@\/e) and it is the maddest looking thing ever. It's called the Arte y Pico Award and Dave ki...

Lady wanted to know why there aren't many recent pictures of her on here. Fair point. So here are summer snaps of each of them. That han...

I hadn't heard of Wall-E until seeing the trailer when I took Lady and Thomas to see Prince Caspian at the cinema. Wow! How had I misse...

Channel 4 news on Monday 14th July, reported on an autistic child called Ben Haslam and his parents, who say their Local Authority (LA) of ...

I've had better mornings. There was a knock at the door, and I spied the postman through the glass. Thinking he had a parcel or somethin...

What do you think of the new look on the blog? Do you agree with my big brother who says it's cheesy, or do you side with Manuel , who s...

On Saturday, having given sufficient time for her vaccinations to take effect, we took Pippi out for the first time. We went to a playground...

Autism is discussed in today's Time; Fringe Autism Treatment Stirs Debate. In the opening sentence, chelation therapy for autism is des...

Duncan is growing up. He has changed again since his eighth birthday. I still have to be very careful in many circumstances, and he still c...

A couple of weeks back, I read a Telegraph article about an autistic boy saying his first words. It was presented as though this was some s...

The picture shows me wearing a happy expression, as well as a few hearts, a flower (I think it's a lilly like those in a vase on our tab...

Yesterday was the first day of the summer holidays for all the children who go to school. I was none too surprised then when the door bell s...

Have I mentioned before that Duncan likes Thomas trains? Oh I must have. Here are a few examples. I even took part in an NAS survey about a...

It's my birthday today. I'm another year older. I wonder when I'll start feeling a year wiser? I've not felt like writing re...

Duncan just turned 8. He chose to go to the toy shop to pick his present (another train!). He prefers to get exactly what he wants rather th...

The amount of trash that is written about autism just never fails to astonish me. Can people really still be filling column inches in the Te...