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Taking Care 4 (ii) - Day Centre
We came off the main route near Sittingbourne, then went along a series of narrow side roads, through a small village by a railway line, and finally...
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Taking Care 4 (i) - Day Centre
I arrived at ten to nine the next morning to find the day centre Previa already being loaded. Malcolm was taking charge of it, like a bossy father...
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Taking Care 3 (ii)
By eleven, I'd only managed to get through three folders. It was a massive amount of information to take in. I'd written down things like cerebral...
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Taking Care 3 (i)
Day One at Remus Lodge - my first day of working in care... I knocked at the front door and Malcolm answered. Instead of inviting me in, he stepped...
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Test # 1
Here is a hypothetical newspaper headline with one word missing. Please insert into the blank space whichever of the words you are happiest with. '...
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Thanks all for your
Posted on Sun, 28 Oct 2018
Thanks all for your encouraging comments. Much of the book is composed of episodes, divided into chapters and parts. The first section leads up to the illness, the second is about mum's brief recovery and those months we spent together. ...
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Enjoyed this. I know that
Posted on Sun, 14 Oct 2018
Enjoyed this. I know that feeling. Arrivals are often a disappointment.
Read full commentPosted in On Platform Two of Basingstoke Station One Night in October
Thanks, everyone.
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
Thanks, everyone.
Indeed, I could have added.... had I not been a member of ABCTales... had I not first heard about the site from a friend... had I not started writing in the first place...
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Hello again, Di,
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Hello again, Di,
Every autistic person is unique with what they can and cannot do. We have a savant at work who can tell you the day of the week that you were born on, but he can't tie his shoe laces and he has the emotional age of a 6-...
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Hope it could be helpful for
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Hope it could be helpful for you, Di.
Parents can be so cruel. What on earth is the father worried about? That his kid will grow up being thought of as 'retarded'? Does he not realise the potential harm he could do? Would he put a cat...
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This captures how I'm feeling
Posted on Sun, 30 Sep 2018
This captures how I'm feeling myself, Jane. I love this time of year... but I miss the summer, too. I especially liked the final stanza:
Put away summer
Seal the songs and colours
In a box, to leaven...
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Wonderful! Never lose that
Posted on Sun, 30 Sep 2018
Wonderful! Never lose that inner child. I doubt you will, though
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Love it - especially that
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Love it - especially that second stanza. I well remember my ex and I looking askance at one another when James Naughtie on the Today programme introduced a certain Culture Secretary!
Succinctly and poignantly put. Had me nodding...
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I like this. An interesting
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
I like this. An interesting analogy. Those sudden blow-outs, too. And I've never found a puncture outfit that's worked for love.
New loves, though? New tyres? There can still be hope. So, maybe not a 'sad' poem, but a reflective one...
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I can't believe I overlooked
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2014
I can't believe I overlooked leaving a comment on this, Hespera - maybe because everyone had said it all. But still...
Scratch is right: it's utterly convincing. So much about it rang true for me on a personal level. That sense of the...
Read full commentPosted in 03.02.2014 - The Noose*
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