Not done a house update for a few weeks because everything is going so well. Not really, it's still a bit shit. I think I may have hit the I really can't be bothered being civil with housing point right now (to be fair it has been going on since February), we've gone from them being very nice since Social Work got involved to in the last week them phoning SW (our allotted worker is on annual leave) because we hadn't rung them back straight away to now adding seemingly random policy rules to our promised move. A house (not ours) for illustrative purposes. We seem to have gone from "we'll find you a suitable property" to "if you don't accept the first property you're offered that's it because you only get one choice" which under the circumstances seems a wee bit churlish seeing as not only had we already accepted a property that we were subsequently told we shouldn't be offered (and are snapped at when we mention it, I just love b...

  Seeing as it's Father's Day I thought I'd reshare the top Autism dad chat (featuring a fair few Actually Autistic peeps) we did for Scottish Autism a few years back....   Enjoy.     

Sorry I was bored, plus I need something to cheer me up with all the housing shite. 

  Remembering Rik Mayall....Cheers for being my stand-up inspiration as a 15 yr old kid (the audiences were kind) and for being unknowingly responsible for getting me a free swanky meal in London back in '91 due to a bizarre case of mistaken identity and misplaced accents.* *I mean c'mon, even Grok is still convinced.  

  Bizarrely it's exactly 5 years today since my Sedgley UFO tweet went a wee bit mental, amassing over 2 million hits on Twitter and culminating in TV coverage, newspaper headlines and death threats from fringe religious groups worldwide. Which was nice. So to celebrate the only time I've ever been popular here's a link to the post explaining the full sorry tale . Plus as a special treat here's myself and Rho excitedly discussing it on the Ashrology podcast .  I can safely say I'll never achieve this level of infamy again:         Enjoy. And remember, the truth is out there. Probably.  

A quick real life catch up as it's been a wee bit mad here at the moment. First up, apologies to anyone who missed my dulcet tones on the radio Tuesday , turns out they'd overbooked the amount of English males they needed so I unfortunately got dumped from the panel. I did managed to randomly add a few comments near the end but due to timing they skipped the punchline. Story of my life.  As a (self congratulatory) aside the visuals I produced for the inaugural  David Byrne themed Byrne's Night in Dumbarton seemed to go down a treat!       And on another bright note it looks like there may finally be some progress on the whole house situation that wont have to involve legal action and/or government intervention. Or any more Autistic meltdowns.  Which is nice.     I can't say too much right now except that having such a high stress level every day for almost 4 months certainly takes its toll. My head feels like someone has set a huge bag of firework...