tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post2706098611426044780..comments2023-04-10T14:29:56.153+01:00Comments on Raw Light: poetry & opinion since 2005: Bad Dates and ToothacheUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-81707591856332064952010-04-14T14:08:27.784+01:002010-04-14T14:08:27.784+01:00Shit, what a day. Emapathy & sympathy in abund...Shit, what a day. Emapathy & sympathy in abundance to you, girl. N xGroup 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-54012364890163816882010-04-14T10:55:43.679+01:002010-04-14T10:55:43.679+01:00Thank you kindly. I think they're great too. W...Thank you kindly. I think they're great too. Whether or not their teachers would agree is another matter though. I guess that when you have 30 kids to muster, having one seven year old who constantly asks unanswerable questions about quantum physics or the existence of God or, worse still, who refuses to stop talking at all (even under the threat of detention), that must be a severe trial. <br /><br />I've learnt to block it out - when too busy to answer, or in the bathroom! - or to answer as best I can, or refer the child to his father, or the internet, or a book, but then, when it's your own offspring, you try to make the time. When it's someone else's child, it must be rather hellish to be constantly interrupted by a linear-thinking genius with potential Asperger's, or have to calm an autistic child who's suddenly taken against his socks or his lunch box for no reason, or who has no idea what you just told him to do, even though he appeared to be listening intently.<br /><br />Great TV programme the other night about autistic kids putting on a show. Some of them were dead ringers for our two. Though the boys found it very uncomfortable to sit through. One got up and stormed upstairs halfway through, and had to be coaxed back down. Important for them to know they're not 'alone' in their problems though. Autistic children often have a very strong and biting sense of isolation, even in a big family like ours, so the programme obviously challenged that view of themselves and made them uncomfortable. Which I think is A Good Thing.Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-18203893933074551062010-04-14T10:11:58.279+01:002010-04-14T10:11:58.279+01:00Hey, and by the way, Jane - let me just say here i...Hey, and by the way, Jane - let me just say here in public, below all the strings of acronyms and so on, that your kids are GREAT. You have totally class kids. They're fabulous.Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-56280731039600820512010-04-13T17:55:00.459+01:002010-04-13T17:55:00.459+01:00I can't stand whisky without dry ginger, that&...I can't stand whisky without dry ginger, that's the problem. And with dry ginger, it kinda defeats the purpose ...<br /><br />But if I'm desperate enough!Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-7953702481988422202010-04-13T14:25:54.728+01:002010-04-13T14:25:54.728+01:00Whisky. Swish your mouth out.Whisky. Swish your mouth out.Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-92084855489994078842010-04-08T17:35:33.074+01:002010-04-08T17:35:33.074+01:00Thanks for the sympathies, folks!
Barbara, pain ...Thanks for the sympathies, folks! <br /><br />Barbara, pain does seem to make me more lucid than usual. It removes extraneous brain paraphernalia and leaves only The Facts.<br /><br />The pain is less impossible to handle today. Maybe that's because I'm managing it better, or maybe because it's sunny and the endorphins are kicking in. Or maybe it was a temporary flare-up and will now subside. Seeing the dentist tomorrow.Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-56597785921134549342010-04-08T12:07:17.044+01:002010-04-08T12:07:17.044+01:00Aw no! What a bugger of a day to put in Jane - an...Aw no! What a bugger of a day to put in Jane - and yet it reads quite rationally, which is hard to do when you've got that amount of pain - I hope you get it seen to very quick. The root-sherds tend to rise to the surface of the gum and erupt there - I do hope that it's not an abscessAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-81645360531815937222010-04-08T11:56:01.323+01:002010-04-08T11:56:01.323+01:00My sympathies to you. Don't forget the applica...My sympathies to you. Don't forget the application of clove oil : http://bit.ly/oPJlJ (although I'd imagine you'll need the painkillers too).Padhraig Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11010869074911253314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-86162175389686442072010-04-08T10:29:18.631+01:002010-04-08T10:29:18.631+01:00I sympathise with the toothache problems - I'm...I sympathise with the toothache problems - I'm just taking anti-biotics for an abcess myself and will have to have another tooth out soon. <br /><br />Hope it goes away soon...Steven Walinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09843948765720382682noreply@blogger.com