Ponderings from the Autiverse

January is often seen as a month to endure, to make new plans for self-improvement and then berate yourself for failing to live up to. All because of an arbitrary date in the calendar that sees the number of the year go up by one. My thoughts on making resolutions I'm afraid that I don't understand, or I opted out many years ago. Why are new year's resolutions a thing? Did someone just wake up one morning and decide 'I know, I'll make everyone feel guilty and rubbish about themselves by encouraging them to set themselves impossible goals that they will never succeed in keeping to for more than a few weeks'? And why are so many of them focused on weight loss? Literally the day after Christmas, the adverts on the radio changed from 'Here's loads of really unhealthy food, but you should eat it because it's Christmas', to 'Here's an advert for weight loss jabs, you fat loser' (and the voiceover was a woman, so clearly intended for a femal...

It's been a long while since my last blog post - but I haven't been sitting around twiddling my thumbs. The last six weeks of the school term saw busyness which ramped up until the very last couple of days before the holidays, and my family and I were just 'treading water' to get through it all. It is difficult to explain, but it felt as if finding time for anything but survival was just not possible. Head down, keep going.... (mixed metaphors here, I apologise - if you're treading water, please don't put your head down!!) The season of intense busyness We've had school concerts, a big birthday party, toddler group festivities, not to mention church music at the beginning of December as well as the Christmas services. We've had family visits, big times of stress, and unexpected change. The run up to Christmas felt like a marathon, but one like in the Olympics where all of the other runners are much faster and better at it than me, leaving me puffing at t...