This weekend we visited Jurassic Encounter 2022 at Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley near Southampton. This is a giant travelling exhibition of some 50 dinosaurs (and a couple of non dinosaurs), touring various parts of the UK and EU countries. We visited with three of our children (the 11-year-old, the toddler, and the baby). […]
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Doing it All Again…
So, you’ve probably realised, I’m a bit shit at blogging. I think it’s because there’s something a little bit narcissistic about it in my head… why should I think that anybody cares at all about anything I’ve got to say? And so I put off writing anything. Well for the third time in my life […]
A little over two weeks ago my life changed forever. I was unaware this metamorphosis was happening, but it was. For 7 long years I had wanted a third child (believe me I am all too aware of how lucky I have been to have two children previously, who despite ASD and learning disabilities are […]
So on Friday I got the rather lovely news that my piece “Snapshot” had been chosen as one of the selected pieces for this year’s Shape Open first to be exhibited at The Nunnery: Bow Arts 3rd Oct — 27th Oct and then toured at various galleries around the country afterwards. This news fills me […]
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Wickham Festival 2013
So being the sick but busy person that I am, it is only now, a week after the Wickham festival that I have got a chance to post about it. Luckily for us we live very close to Wickham and so what with illness, lots of animals and 2 children (one of whom is autistic), […]
So today we went to see a relaxed performance of Jack and the Beanstalk at Southampton’s the Mayflower theatre. It was our second panto of the season but our first officially aimed at those with autism and sesory or learning difficulties. It was a bit of an odd experience, at first I could not hear […]
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Autism oh autism……..
So today we had a meeting at meltdown moo’s SEN playschool, a thing which to be honest I always dread. It’s not the dealing with staff, I know I’m an intelligent woman and I can hold my own in any conversation, especially where my son is concerned. No, the problem for me is that our son […]
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Autism Friendly Film Screenings
Now I don’t know how many of you have tried going to the cinema with an autistic child? We tried once to go with our toddler and meltdown moo. After the nightmare that was we vowed we would probably not go again….. there are ony so many narky looks I can take. I understand our […]