Jumping back in

When we lost Benji two years ago, I lost even more than my beautiful, loving, brave and patient child, my daughters’ brother and confidante, my teacher and guide in a world suddenly changed. I lost a community of other families with complex needs, with undiagnosed conditions, of self-advocates passionate about disability rights. I lost a …

Dear neighbour

Dear Neighbour, How are you? I hope you're having a good day. Me? I’m tired. Tired of squeezing a 25kg wheelchair into a car boot through a six-inch space. Tired of soaking the backs of my legs against the front bumper of your wet and dirty car. Tired of trying to squeeze a big car …

Gone camping (again)

By popular request (although the friends due to come camping with us later in the year may regret it), there follows a report of this year’s Family Summer Holiday: A Wet Weekend in Wooler. Not that I’ve got anything against Wooler. Well not much. Read on. They say rain sounds much heavier from inside a …