Gordon, lady and Thomas have just left to make the first leg of their journey to Jamaica leaving myself and Duncan behind. I've been thi...

There was something odd about the sky. It was the wrong colour and a peculiar big yellow ball was visible overhead. This might have been lin...

I wrote about the release of the recent report into the decades long, systematic, extreme and abhorrent violence, abuse and neglect. I have ...

We all knew what to expect. It is still shocking though when you read the report , or, as much of it as you can stomach. The people of the c...

Me-Can I ask you a few questions about your life and then write your answers down on my blog so people can read them? Thomas- Yes. Tell me ...

I don't often check the yahoo email account listed on my sidebar. But sometimes when I do I discover a pleasant email from someone who w...

Been lacking blog juice lately as my brain ponders a whole heap of stuff. Thomas has gone with his dad and grandmother to Oxford for a few d...

Yesterday our pooch, Pippi, was 1 year old. Isn't she gorgeous? She is a darling dog, and happily, she seems to like living with us, enj...

Via Michelle Dawson's Autism Crisis blog, I have just read a recent Salon article about the supposed "burgeoning "autism cult...

I was very interested to read a few comments on my "Horse Boy" blog post from Kristin Neff, the mother of the child featured in t...

There's this great blog called A Touch of Alyricism that I've been reading for a few years. It's not updated all that frequentl...

Lady has been staying with one of her friends and her family in their Donegal caravan for a few days. Gordon and I took the boys into Belfas...

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network working with the Dan Marino Foundation and Kent Creative have developed the following excellent video ou...

Duncan just asked me to help him update his blog. He's put up some pictures of Thomas & Friends trains...in pieces . One of them is ...

A few weeks ago I shared some thoughts on a recently published book, a new addition to the autism-parent canon. In this one, instead of usi...

This has been a good Friday so far. Right now, Lady is at the cinema with 2 friends. They're watching Race to Witch Mountain . Duncan is...