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Alfie Boe – Warbles a bit in the Kitchen with Matt Lucas

On May 6, 2012 By

OK … I admit I am a bit of a fan of Alfie Boe. I think it was inevitable. When you play the lead in a Baz Luhrmann production of La Boheme (Alfie Boe played Rodolofo in Baz Luhrman’s La Bohème on Broadway and won a Tony for his performances) … and then with effortless grace [...]

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Happy New Year!!

On December 31, 2011 By

New Years time is great time of the year … where many things seem possible and there is such hope for the new year. It made me think of one of my all time favourite quotes … Happy New Year!!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the [...]

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Grateful for TED

On September 24, 2011 By

This week when I was contemplating what I would include in my grateful post of the week I was sitting on the lounge relaxing after a long day of work (for him) and running around for therapy (for me). With just over 1 week passed in Project Aquarius (Toilet Training LittleMan) and only [...]

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Grateful for … Spoken Word

On September 15, 2011 By

Today I am grateful for the spoken word. I guess this is sort of a continuation of last week’s Grateful. After last week and enjoying some beautiful poetry. I continued on my exploration and celebration of poetry and even was tempted to explore alittle further into the the world of fiction. But what differentiated this exploration from [...]

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R U OK? Day – September 15th 2011

On September 14, 2011 By

I love the idea of R U OK? Day.  Too many Australians today are affected by or suffer in silence with depression. Each year more than 2,100 Australians suicide. For each person that dies in this way, another 30 attempt to end their life (Lifeline). R U OK? aims to inspire all Australians to help to [...]

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Hacking Autism

On September 10, 2011 By

When doing a visit to Autism Speaks I was reading about a LIVE Chat that had just happened about bringing together leaders in technology and Autism Specialists to facilitate and accelerate technology-based ideas to help give those with autism a voice.  I was totally blown away by the people that they had involved and the passion [...]

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Grateful for … Poetry

On September 8, 2011 By

Today I am grateful for poetry. Yesterday I read an amazing poem by Melinda Smith called First…Then… on a guest post at Aspie in the Family. It is such a beautiful poem describing the some of the experiences of a Autism Parent. I know that every parent has different experiences from birth [...]

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Carly’s Voice

On August 25, 2011 By

A friend of mine shared this on Facebook and I just had to share it with you. It is just an amazing story about such an interesting young women with Autism and her parents and family that support her.  The story is about 2 years old and I have found her website .. Carly’s [...]

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Social Media Queens – The Power of Mummy Bloggers

On August 9, 2011 By

If you missed it last night on 6:30 with George Negus (except it was with Hamish Macdonald). It was great to watch and follow along on Twitter as the Mummy Bloggers (or Mumblers) capitulated the #630Negus  into the top 5 of trending keywords on the night!

Here are the [...]

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‘White Mouse’ Nancy Wake dies

On August 8, 2011 By

I was saddened to hear today about the passing of Nancy Wake, Australia’s most decorated World War II servicewoman. While not surprising (she was less than 1 month away her 99th birthday) it is still sad that such a remarkable woman has died.

Not heard of Nancy Wake … not surprising many of [...]

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Life’s Little Instruction Book

On July 6, 2011 By

I am in the process of reorganizing some of the rooms in our house. We moved here not long before LittleMan was born and as usually happens things get overtaken and some things never get sorted right.  Anyway I have started on the process now and it has been while alot of work … some [...]

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Watching Temple Grandin

On June 10, 2011 By

Temple Grandin, the award winning bio made-for-TV film is something that I have wanted to write about for some time. I love this film. HBO did such a wonderful job with this film that it is a shame it was not released  theatrically so that Claire Danes and other members of the talented [...]

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Upcoming Movies: Oranges and Sunshine

On June 8, 2011 By

As we go into the Northern Hemispere summer there is a plethora of new and exciting films that are about to open. And while yes … I do have plans on going to see the last Harry Potter Film and there is no way I can escape Cars2 (even if I wanted to ) … [...]

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