My parents both came from big families. Maybe that is what prompted their outlandish ideas. Nicholas Cunningham braced himself for another long week at the chalk face. Teaching increasingly ill mannered, tired and undisciplined children was becoming more irksome by the week. First of all, each incidence of bad behaviour now had to be put […]
A short story, that isn’t cute & fluffy It came from nowhere and sat outside our back door. Abby loved him at once but I didn’t. It was a mistaken love that resulted in tragedy for us all.I noticed we were buying extra milk which I resented since our mortgage was costing an arm and
Not a moan, but a plea! This isn’t a moan but rather a plea for whomever is responsible to make their websites accessible to screen readers so blind and partially sighted people can access them and where applicable, write to the appropriate people. Let me elaborate:I have read several books via the RNIB reading service
How Far Should You Go? Working out how far you should go, whether other people mean what they say and how far they should go before you take offence is a nightmare so would you like this? I didn’t and my friend didn’t either.Her support worker noticed that K, or as her parents call her,
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Meeting day Lisa and I had arrived safely in Dubbo where it promised to be a packed couple of weeks, full of excitement and the fulfilment of a dream now coming true.We were going to go to a café on the Wednesday before my birthday on the Saturday but once K’s parents came, we got
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Zoo Time On the Tuesday after arriving in Dubbo, a very kind support worker of K’s who has known her since she was a child, took the time to take us all Taranga Western Plains zoo. I thought it’d be like a British zoo where you could hear and even smell the place but far
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Destination Dubbo I spent the time before flying to Australia worrying in case the planes came down and the fact that Lisa’s children would be left motherless and it would all be my fault although she did offer to go with me to see my friend K. I thought of us floating about in the
The anxiety is really building now because June is here. It’s about eighteen days or so till Lisa and I head off to the land of Oz to see K, family and support workers who help her. At present the poor girl (well that’s how I think of her) has covid so is resting and
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Why Me? This is a question which has many answers when it comes to why individual people are given suffering of any sort to undergo. One answer is that it’s random. Another is that it’s a test of fortitude and endurance. Yet one more answer is that it is a punishment from an angry god
If I asked you what someone blind and with Asperger’s has in common with all people everywhere, regardless of disability, religious affiliation, no religion and both sexes what would you say?My guess is:“Nothing. I mean these people are helpless, burdensome, trying to be with and perhaps something in common with skilled maths students or musicians