Sunday 11 September 2011

some new photos

took them this week...


 this cute spider was in dads green house,thats its unborn babies in the black thing acording to what had read online,thought it was eating it at first but no.



 this is ruby-sisters kitteh who has been staying here again since...some day during the week, as sister is buggering off to another wedding with the brother in law.
dad has been away putting up a green house for his brother as he is fucking useless at that stuff [and they have supposedly smashed some glass already] but anyway sister didnt trust mum with ruby and sandy so had offered to make the holiday a bit longer to this coming tuesday to pamper the girls,sandy doesnt give a shit as usual but ruby has been loving the attention.


 this is the bag that had took clothes down in from home,its one of those last forever [but not really last forever] bags,from pets at home.
had thought it was quite funny when goldie got in it,she must have read the name and thought it was a home for her.


a lot of people including vets dont like touching or stroking goldie because of her ferral and unpredictible past,just look at how the little madam is now though-attached to knees,looking up everytime have stopped stroking her,dribbling when stroked,purring.
she loves srs attention.

Sunday 4 September 2011

kitties and padded helmets-actualy not a good mix

last week had not had the padded helmet on whilst at mums though usualy do if head is ok-had been banging so there was some scarring and bad skull pressure at that time plus the long thick hair made it unbelievably itchy so was not able to wear it anyway [it was all shaved off on friday so it now feels great].
but,unfortunately for self [and the helmet] our little innocent tabby puss,goldie had pissed on it and a load of other stuff which were all lying together-had been using dads pc and she did all of this behind back without even noticing it.

the only explanation we had is it must be part of the kidney problems she is having as she never pisses outside her trays or gardens,it wasnt like spraying it was real bladder emptying ontop of rucksack which got onto everything.


luckily,everything has been washed,and the helmet has dried finaly,it smells very nice indeed.
was not bothered about our madams accident just hope it is not a sign of the kidney problems getting worse as its diet controlled at the moment [if it can be called controlled,well it cant]  but it will be hard giving her meds as she is ex ferral and even doing the ole towel restraint and throat rub with a buttered up tablet trick will end up with the human doing it losing their limbs plus she thinks are making a joke of her inteligence when tablets are crumbled up in her food.


heres some photos of both the scallywags from today [sunday] as we have had sunny hot weather so they were both out sunning themselves and biscuit was doing her favourite hobbies of looking out for mice and hedgehogs.





om nom nom nom

was being eaten by the niece today [sunday].

she came to visit with her ma and pa and was in a unusualy good mood despite her first tooth having come through.

like a vampire she pretended she wanted a hug or whatever but it was actualy to nom some flesh,she tried anything her little mouth coud get around,sister took loads of pics-






^she loves dancing and being supported to 'walk' across the floor and she kept trying to nom everything as seen in those photos,even the fringy bits did not escape nor the camera.

-shoud also say,orla seems to be keen on horse riding already which is a very good sign.
had got down on hands and knees for her on the floor and dad held orla on back like she was riding a horse,she did changing the diaganals and all that flatwork stuff,impressive rider-am definitely taking her for real rides as soon as she is allowed heheheheheheh.hope her ma doesnt see this...well she knows what think on this.

disability equipment-whoever prices these needs sacking for fraud

it is so hard understanding why companies which make disability equipment [in particular those that make autism and learning disability equipment] charge a lot of money- usualy making them inacessible to those whose lives coud be hugely improved by the equipment.
if anything,equipment shoud be cheaper because those that make use of aids/equipment,ie disabled people with high needs- have very little left to spend from their disability benefits due to it paying for their their care,and then there are those of us who are stupidly refused most benefits due to being in residential care-and any we do have goes towards paying for our placement and petrol for our motability car if we have one.

it is absolutley disgusting that this government feels it is ok to fund equipment for people with physical or sensory disabilities-such as wheel chairs,hearing aids and crutches for example,because people with physical or hearing difficulty or physical needs need those aids to have quality of life,however the government does not fund ear defenders,sound proofing or AAC communicative aids which not having profoundly affects many of us with autism-these have a big impact on our lives and everyone around us,not just quality of life-they improve and affect so much.

the government shoud get hold of the papers they have the disability discrimination act written on and shove it up their arses because they pick and choose what they want to avoid discrimination against and that is not a discrimination act,its a biased piece of crap.




thanks to our speech therapist [am guessing are reading this because everyone from ours seems to get hold of the bloody thing] we had recently [ie,this week] become a temperary home to a liberator AAC device- it was more for one of our lads who is unable to communicate useable verbal language at all.
anyone who knows self online or offline will probably know had personaly tried to get one [the possum jive] via the local government a few years ago-this was a reasonable priced device but had found out our stingy council does not fund AAC devices,and now possum have stopped making AAC equipment due to all this funding loss.
am not fully non verbal but am partly non verbal,and woud be greatly helped with a pocket AAC device-being partly non verbal was not the reason for being refused the funding,they woud refuse someone who had no useable verbal language,perhaps thats their way at saying they are not being discriminative.


anyway,those of us interested have all had a go of it-the device is huge and heavier than a full sized laptop but it boots quickly when compared to a laptop,am not sure what battery life is like,the adapter for charging that device is huge though.
had taken a photo of it one night whilst sat in the lounge,trying to keep staff busy so they forgot time and didnt send em to bed early,though have had to brighten it up in GIMP because its really dark in lounge.
-was making it swear a lot to test it,it past the swearing test,have never used any text to speech software before which coud manage so many words,though on PCs-maybe the windows SAPI engine had something to do with its lack of recognition,even the linux espeak/festival engine gets more words right.
its fucking awesome.
if everyone was rich woud tell everyone who has autism or has a child with autism to buy one of these as it encourages the user to use more language if they have the ability,if not they will only recognise the pictures-but its a great bit of kit,just a pity we arent all rich.

it has PECS pictures to trigger the machine to speak or can type words out to trigger the speech [AKA text to speech].
the guy that is hopefuly getting it took to it straight away,can tell it will help him so much.

unfortunately though,was toldd the machine costs far to much-to be exact they said the price of a car and our guy is going to have to have a organisation do fund raising for him [providing he is approved by this org as they probably get alot of requests] and it coud take a year or whatever for him to get the device.
-had looked into us doing fundraising for him but was told because we are under a company and not a charity status organisation,we are not aloud to fundraise which is shit.

had said what about Proloquo2go and an iphone or ipad-that is the AAC software for the iphone and ipad that had often posted on here about being close to buying prior to release,but it was found out [not by self,speech therapist did all the work-she knew about the software already] that the developers dont give free trials for people to have a go and see if it suits their needs.
its aimed at people with autism/LD and they shoud realise that we are not frigging clones who will be able to do or not do,or like/not like the same things.


next week,we has a lady from dynavox coming with another AAC,was really hoping to get a go of it as am a big fan of dynavox but had forgotten at the time she is coming am going to be at mums/dads, speech therapist said she will take pictures of it in use [if reading this,please do,woud love to see it in use].