Eye Contact

Looking back, I now realise that from a very young age, Aidan was more focused on household objects, toys, and on what he was doing, than on people. I can’t ever remember him gazing up at me and studying my face, like most newborn babies do. I have a bajillion pictures of him from birth […]

Bubbles!

Without doubt, one of Aidan’s favourite things in the whole world is… BUBBLES!  From a young age he has been utterly captivated by them. He loves watching them take form on the wand, he is breathless with anticipation as they take flight, he is delighted by the way the breeze catches them and sends them […]

The Leviathan

As early as 65 B.C., the Roman poet Horace, wrote about the “Black Dog” of depression. And the image of a sullen black dog, shadowing your every move is an extremely vivid one that many depression sufferers can relate to. Winston Churchill found the description so apt, that he later adopted it himself. Though he […]