Yay! Finally got around to booking tickets (thanks Rho) for my birthday film at the GFT this coming Monday. I'm off to see Batman Returns - probably THE greatest comic adaptation/romantic weepie/Christmas movie/Breakfast at Tiffany's mash-up ever (with a brilliant Siouxsie And The Banshees song to boot ) and one of my all favourite films of all time on the big screen again. The girls have never experienced it in all its widescreen glory before so I hope they're ready for it. And ready for me blubbing like a baby at all the sad bits. Oh and when Michael Keaton stands up in front of the Batsignal obviously. And the mistletoe bit. And when Face To Face plays at Max Shreck's party ( "Oh, my God. Does this mean we have to start fighting?") . Oh and the ending. Seriously I cry a lot at this film and end up totally drained by the climax but the pure emotional turmoil is so worth it. Ye...
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Write On The Return.
Blast from the past! 5 years ago I wrote this for the Twins Trust Multiple Matters magazine, a - rather good if I say so myself - article on our family, twins and autism. Enjoy - again - the full (uncut - I tend to ramble) version below. Hi everyone! Your illustrious editor has asked me to pen a few words for this issue regarding twins and autism – or Autistic twins if you like. Now before you quickly flick the page thinking “Gawd this’ll be a wee bit depressing/preachy” (delete as applicable) let me just alleviate your fears by pointing out that unlike most Autistic overviews that seem to concentrate on the differences and struggles parents of autistic kids seem to have when interacting with their brood this’ll be a wee bit different. You see out of the 5 folk living in our house, 4 of us are on ‘ver spectrum’ - as the cool kids call it. So if anything that mysterious Autistic mindset I keep reading about is actua...
The Poet In Exile.
To celebrate the birthday of Jim Morrison, here are a few little seen storyboards from the cancelled film adaptation of The Poet in Exile. Enjoy.
Day-Oh!
A rare day with just the boy today - girls are away to college then the cinema so we're planning something exciting - which has turned out to be Cass insisting on a trip to Aldi after lunch. The fun never stops in this house! A grand day out according to Cassidy. Counting down to Christmas (and my birthday) with a mix of the usual frantic to and fro' college trips, a few meetings, picking up the new car (much to the annoyance of everyone who hates the disabled/Motability users) and a school session next week featuring me indulging in my old job of balloon modelling which is nice, hopefully we'll managed to make it that far without collapsing in a tired heap as this term has really taken it out of us both physically - we're not getting any younger - and mentally with the amount of form filling/organisations losing claims/lack of support etc. Fingers crossed that the arse end of 2025 is a wee bit kinder on us.
Nature Calls.
Spotted by statistician Dr Kareem Carr on X, an actual, honest to goodness, real figure taken from a research article in a Nature journal. Yes, this was in fact reviewed and published. Seriously, look at it and (try to) read it. I genuinely feel like I've lost IQ points - and bladder control - just having it in front of me. To be fair tho', if nothing else I've at least got my new band name:
Teen Scene.
The four things you needed to be a teen in the 80's - Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Times Square and Rivers Edge on VHS and a Betty Blue poster. Usual Autistic ranting will be resumed as soon as.