How Do You Say Goodbye?

July 13, 2010 feelings

Today I had the worst news. One of my oldest friends, someone who’s been there through thick and thin, passed away today. She was 28. I remember first meeting her when the girl who lived in the room next to me in halls at first year of uni introduced me. She was one of those [...]

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Sunday Snippets #4

July 11, 2010 Sunday Snippets

You know when your kids/spouse/dog says or does something funny, and you think “I’ve *totally* gotta blog that” but then it only works out at about 3 lines of a blog post and that’s just not enough so you just leave it and forget it ever happened? Well, that’s why I thought I’d start Sunday [...]

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What Do You Do When The Kids Are Away?

July 9, 2010 Life in General

This afternoon for example, Max has been snoozing for most of it, and Dean took Zack with him into Perth so I could get a little peace and Zack could get out of the house (plus he could have his fave spaghetti bolognese at our favourite family pub…) for a while. I should have been [...]

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It’s Funny What You Can Find…

July 7, 2010 silly

…on your iPhone when it’s been AWOL all morning! That would be a photo taken by Zack at god knows what time in the morning with my iPhone snuck into his bedroom… Yoshi and Sonic in centre stage, with a still sleeping Max in the background!

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It’s Official…

July 6, 2010 Autistic Spectrum Disorder

We’ve had it confirmed now by two paediatric development specialists. Max is on the autistic spectrum. I know that this has been a long time coming, but I lost that last little bit of hope that it might turn out to be just a speech delay yesterday. My baby boy, who is coming on leaps [...]

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Sunday Snippets #3

July 3, 2010 Sunday Snippets

Copy and paste this: <a href=”http://www.softthistle.net/category/sunday-snippets”><img src=”http://www.softthistle.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sunday-snippets.jpg”></a> You know when your kids/spouse/dog says or does something funny, and you think “I’ve *totally* gotta blog that” but then it only works out at about 3 lines of a blog post and that’s just not enough so you just leave it and forget it ever happened? Well, [...]

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Rocky Da Cat

July 2, 2010 Photography

Meet Rocky, named after his tough guy appearance, like Rocky Balboa, only cuter, and more fluffy. Rocky has been in our lives for just over two years now. We were lucky enough to rescue him from the Dundee Cat’s Protection Centre when he was just 9 months old. His owners didn’t want to part with [...]

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Sunday Snippets #2

June 27, 2010 Sunday Snippets

<a href=”http://www.softthistle.net/category/sunday-snippets”><img src=”http://www.softthistle.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sunday-snippets.jpg”<br /> border=”0″/></a> You know when your kids/spouse/dog says or does something funny, and you think “I’ve *totally* gotta blog that” but then it only works out at about 3 lines of a blog post and that’s just not enough so you just leave it and forget it ever happened? Well, that’s why [...]

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