Autism, Menieres Disease and Me

Although my MD has been really good to me recently (no attacks in nearly 4 weeks) Autism has been a big issue in the house recently hence why ive not been blogging the last 2 weeks. I am having a lot of trouble with my eldest son's behaviour at the moment. Brad is 14 and severly Autistic and goes through phases where his behaviour becomes out of control. This is the point we are at right now. None of the usual deterants are working with him even Lee has tried talking to him but to no avail. I have spoken to my ex husband and asked him if he could talk to Brad about his behaviour which he has now done so im just waiting to see if this has an impact (fingers crossed). I have also decided to get him some councelling to try and deal with the anger issues he seems to have. He hates being Autistic and different to his peers and just wants to be "normal" whatever normal is. I am so thankfull to god for keeping my MD at bay right now as I really dont know how I would cope with all this if I was having attacks on top of it all. So this is where we are at right now just getting through each day as it comes the best way we know how. Hopefully now Brads father has had an imput things will calm down a little and we can get back to normal around here and I can start my blogging again.
Much Love
Claire xxx

Day trip to Bradford On Avon

 

Today Lee took me and the boys to Bradford On Avon for the day. Its about a 10 minute train journey from here and although I used to drive through the village years ago when I was still driving I am ashamed to say I have never spent any time actually visiting the village untill today. The village is beutiful and completly unspoilt by the commercialism of todays world. All the shops are housed in the beutifull old original buildings that have been there for possibly hundreads of years. We had great fun looking around and taking some beutiful pictures.

 

This is a lovely little restraunt housed in one of the old buildings.

This is the River Avon.

This is the local church but the picture really does not do that beutiful large stained glass window justice at all.

I am so blessed to live in an area with views like this to take my breath away.

 

 

 When we got off the train at Bradford On Avon there was 3 boxes of videos and a box of green plastic pots which said free on. We had a look through and there was 3 videos I liked so I had them and several of the green pots which will come in handy for cooking and crafts total cost £0.

 

 

 

In celebration of the olympics gold post boxes were placed in all the towns were a gold medalist winner was from and yes there was one in Bradford On Avon. The gold post box in Bradford On Avon is to honour the Olympic achievements of the town’s kayak king Ed McKeever who scooped top spot in the K1 200m at Eton Dorney.

 

 

I was also very pleased to see this shop although we had a good look round there was nothing that I actually needed this time around so we left empty handed but I am so pleased I am now aware of it so I can use it in the future.

 

 

It also happened to be market day today. I got a lovely cook book that I wanted rrp £16.99 I paid £6 bargain.

And I got this lovely handmade knitted hoodie for Brandon. It is knitted using alpaca wool so is lovely and soft it cost just £18 a snip considering all the work that has gone into it. I have taken the ladies card and will be putting a custom order in for the older 2 boys before xmas and I may even treat myself to one of her beutiful shawls.

 

 

We had lunch on the water which was lovely and the boys were really excited by it.

 

 

This was the view out of the window behind us.

 

We all had a really enjoyable day and will definately be visiting the village of Bradford On Avon again.


We have made a decision recently that is going to save us a LOT of money. I currently have a package with BT my tv, internet, and landline phone is supplied by them and costs £55 a month. We never use the landline and never rent movies so I just could not understand why it was costing soooo much money. I spoke with the boys and Lee as he will be moving in in the new year and we have decided to get rid of the whole package. We will use our tv to watch videos and dvds only and if there is a tv programme we wish to watch we will watch it online instead and as I say we do not use the home phone anyway. All we will need to make this possible is a pay as you go dongle costing £15 a month which is a saving of £40 a month / £480 a year. I also have a contract mobile phone which costs me between £25 and £30 a month. Because I am partialy deaf I very very rarely make calls I always text people instead. I have been looking at various different tariffs and have found one that suits my needs much better and will also save me money. I will be going for the pay as you go unlimited texts package. You top up £10 a month and the next month you get unlimited texts for free this will save me between £15 and £20 a month / £180 and £240 a year. So in total I will be saving around £60 a month / £720 a year quite a saving im sure you will agree.

I also want to share with you a money saving tip which I have just used myself to save a small fortune on xmas presents for the boys. Lee was given a voucher today to get £30 off of all orders £60 and over with very.com. They also have a huge range of toys on 3 for the price of 2 at the moment. Also when you open an account with them you get 10% off of your first order this is what I got and the price breakdown.

 

£15

£15

£22

£15

 

£20

£20

 

 

Total cost £107 plus £3.95 p&p = a total cost of £110.95 I paid just £43.25
This is how I did it I got a discount of £30 for the 3 for 2 promotion you get the cheapest items free.
I then got 10% off of my remaining order using code 29U99 a further £7.70 off
I then used the voucher Lee was given today code 2BLZX a further £30 off
Quite a saving im sure you will agree.

Well this post has become slightly longer than I had anticipated and I have so much to catch up on where we have been out for the day so I really must get on.

Much Love
Claire
xx xx xx

 

 

Catch up in pictures

 

I made up some family meals for the freezer this week.

This is Chicken mush and is rather yummy.

Some yummy choc chip fairy cakes.

 

I went to watch my god daughter in Alice in wonderland.

She played a lobster and did really well I was very proud of her.

We went shopping.

We went trick or treating.

 

 

Much Love
Claire
xx xx xx