tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50436200788168738632011-09-23T19:20:57.809+01:00A street in rural West Yorks, a child with ASDBigglesworth Drive Residentnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043620078816873863.post-6673667733831387812010-02-26T06:44:00.004Z2010-02-26T06:50:13.252Z

To Marcus Prickface and Antonio Spineless (email)In respect of the incident which took place at Apple Court on the evening of Wednesday 24 February, 2010, in which a fault developed on Marifa Itchybum's video player. A member of staff speaking contemporaneous to events stated that Marifa had "packed his videos away and was ready to leave" shortly before a spare skart lead was located and the

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Dear JonahAs Marifa is in his transition year it is important that a piece of work called a pathway plan is completed. This plan includes Marifa's likes, dislikes and important information about him to take to adult services. The plan also includes future plans and ideas. Barry Handactor is the Person Centred Planning Co-ordinator (Transition) for Trotters who completes these plans with young

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I taught adults and teenagers English for about a year, on and off, after training as a TEFL teacher. I spent slightly longer working as an Early Years teacher, in classrooms where the majority of children were E2L (English as a 2nd Language). Those experiences, plus having a best friend at school who was born in Nairobi and spoke Portuguese until he came to the UK, have equiped me with the

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1. Using Statistics freeware, I am aware that employees of Trotters regularly log onto my blog at work, but always between 7pm and 9pm. Who do you think is logging on?(a) Someone working late in Trotters IT department;(b) Hackers who are piggybacking on Trotters' IP address;(c) Apple Court care workers, who should be looking after the learning disabled children in their care.2. When Martin

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I'm sad, I'm annoyed, I'm irritated. Why? Because I use blogging as a means of working through and figuring out how to cope with my very challenging life -- but writing the kind of confessional posts I sometimes do on my other blog just became that much more difficult, thanks to recent comments made by my local social services to my beloved spouse. Their comments questioned my fitness to parent

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Apple Court, the residential respite care centre where Marifa sleeps once a week, is quite a lot like Fawlty Towers. Or to be more exact, like Basil Fawlty. Staff are either up people's arses or treat them like dirt. It's easily discernible in the way they talk about different children. For example, one child who sleeps there is the daughter of two GPs. I know them, as aquaintances, and they are

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It's been a busy old day over at Gertrude's old house. Gerty did a flit a week or so back, the latest to be driven out by the nasty Candle family. The builders arrived this morning, and on my way back from the shop, I noticed one of 'em looking very worried. Next thing, a bigwig from Johnny Naff Housing Association turns up, followed by the Gas boys. My nose says Gertrude left her ex-gaff a mess,

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Welcome to the a new blog. My name is... well, that's not important. Call me Jonah. I am a graduate professional with a background in education. I live on Bigglesworth Drive, and my teenage son is profoundly autistic. By a way of a pseudonymous introduction, I would like to introduce you to the various people, institutions and organisations who feature on this blog.Marifa is my son. He's 17, and

Bigglesworth Drive Residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043620078816873863.post-59441976245533769042009-09-17T23:00:00.003+01:002009-09-20T11:33:33.790+01:00

Yesterday, me and the missis went to see Marifa's Consultant, Myles Windowledge. Present: one extremely clever Professor Kalel; a more junior colleague allocated the job of writing out prescriptions; and Myles. Also in the room and contributing, a Learning Disability Nurse (I think), who listened to our pre-consultation moaning with genuine patience and professionalism, although I did wonder

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I got a phone call from the Deputy Manager of Apple Court, Marifa's (social services) respite centre yesterday, regarding a daft telephone call one of the carers made to my son's school last week. The Deputy Manager is called Marcus Prickface. The daft phone call, was, he insisted, “a many headed hydra.” What he meant by that is anyone’s guess, but one thing I do know: it was an attempt to look

Bigglesworth Drive Residentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043620078816873863.post-12560670569260600872009-09-09T23:00:00.002+01:002009-09-20T11:04:59.030+01:00

I’ve got an eczema-like rash on my neck and upper-chest. It’s very itchy, on and off. Among the several daily “ons” is 3am “on”, every night this bloody week, in fact, necessitating my getting up to apply liberal quantities of brilliant white aqueous cream. I’m “off” to see the quack tomorrow, assuming the matches propping open my eyelids don’t snap, hurling splinters of wood into my cornea and

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The Candle family are a bunch of Basil-Brush-lookalikes who live on our street. This afternoon, while his mummy was sitting in her front garden looking on, 10 year old Lewd Candle decided to scratch his name onto the front wall of our house. The above picture ought to be one for the crap Housing Association, but living as he does in one of the part-buy houses, Lewd's family are not covered by the

Bigglesworth Drive Residentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043620078816873863.post-60630295036729036122008-10-08T10:47:00.002+01:002009-09-20T10:53:36.253+01:00

My autistic son, Marifa, did his first sleep-over at the Trotters respite care facility last week, Apple Court. On the up side, he went to sleep — albeit for only four hours. He interacted with staff, and was apparently more settled than not. On the down side, he was evidently scared, and perhaps even a little traumatised by the experience. And plummeting to the very abyss of down, stopping just

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