#975 Sunday 24 August

We were expecting Kaylia to get annoyed again when Naomi went to the airport last night ..... but bribery works!  A visit to Red Rooster for tea and all is forgiven.  I don't know why she likes RR .... but it seems to be the ultimate in her mind.

Once we were home, it was the usual upstairs - downstairs routine before settling to sleep.

Today it will be Aunty Moo's and the usual routine.

3pm ..... back at home.  Neefi was at Mim's so it was the usual lively conversation.   We loaded the chairs onto the trailer and headed home .... after a detour to Maxine's.

Maxine has come across a research paper where a large number of autopsies of children at ages 2 to 20 were studied.  There were children with and without autism. 

The study showed that the brain selects the neural links it needs as the child grows and discards the un-needed links.  It was found that in normal children the links had dropped to 27% by an early age .... where in children with autism, the number of links only dropped to 57%!  This would explain the sensory overload aspects of autism.

Not that this really helps us .... but it points in a direction for future study.  Why the difference?

Then home.  The chairs are unloaded and installed.  One of the chairs needed repairs and I still haven't got it working properly.  Fortunately the "rocker" is fine.

Kaylia has been under the hose and is now in the bath.

Kerrie is sitting in the sun on the balcony .... in one of the chairs we've replaced!  I think that one of the chairs will become the "balcony chair".  I'm scavenging parts from the other .... so it will eventually be burnt.