Public Address | Cafe | Access: Zero https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342991#post342991 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342991#post342991 The wonderful transalpine trip. The day I did it – years ago – it looked just like that.

Yes! We did it twenty years ago....somewhat blighted by Miss Two Yearold who chose then to have her one and only allergic reaction to the giveaway peanuts. She went bright red and…

]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:35:38 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342553#post342553 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342553#post342553 made a quick submission.
thank you for the reminder.

]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:52:40 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342547#post342547 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342547#post342547 Stats NZ are doing an innovative on-line discussion

featuring many of the same misconceptions and resistances on their part – including filing disability under health.

]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:11:54 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342537#post342537 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342537#post342537 A smoother means a nail file in this house.

By the way it is the last day for comments on the 2018 Census today, eg what disability data should be collected. Stats NZ are doing an innovative on-line discussion via user-friendly Loomio. https://2018census.loomio.org/

That and this Access blog are mentioned…

]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:19:44 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342475#post342475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342475#post342475 This is pretty interesting, nice popsci take on some potentiall mainstream research: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html?_r=0

Mazmanian knew the results offered only a provisional explanation for why restrictive diets and antibacterial treatments seemed to help some children with autism: Altering the microbial composition might be changing the permeability of the intestine. ‘‘The larger…

]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:18:04 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342459#post342459 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342459#post342459 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:47:02 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342424#post342424 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342424#post342424 Love that logic. I should have written down the list of terms we have learned over the years. Most now forgotten.

Same with us. Jim's language has normalised as he susses out the world and he no longer says "lasterday" for "yesterday". I really liked that one.

]]> Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:43:20 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342422#post342422 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342422#post342422 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:54:36 +1200 Fiona Mckenzie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342421#post342421 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342421#post342421 Hi Sacha – she's not really one for holding anything like pens, paintbrushes etc. Her Facebook voice is filtered through me. She did have a great day out last Sunday – LOVES trains – and we did make this little reminder for her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRUtVPy90E

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:30:22 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342419#post342419 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342419#post342419 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:27:07 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342418#post342418 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342418#post342418 Thank you, Fiona. So many stories we seldom hear.
Would Claudia like to write something for us?

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:12:20 +1200 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342414#post342414 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342414#post342414 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:33:02 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342411#post342411 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342411#post342411 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:13:24 +1200 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342408#post342408 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342408#post342408 We have a few of those too. Jim has always referred to bathmats as "floor towels" – and so do we all now.

Our latest is "leg wrists", ankles.

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:49:46 +1200 Fiona Mckenzie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342405#post342405 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342405#post342405 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:39:05 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342403#post342403 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342403#post342403 Thank you, Fiona (and thanks Russell for sharing the post). That was a fabulous, enlightening, wonderful read – a reminder of how every family evolves its own culture to deal with its own complex set of conditions and the world beyond; some families more consciously than others.

More power to…

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:22:12 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342391#post342391 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342391#post342391 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:58:38 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342390#post342390 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342390#post342390 Jim has always referred to bathmats as "floor towels"

For some reason my brain went full Yorkshire on that, because we have half a towel as a floor towel...

"a whole floor towel? We only have 'alf a towel, and we're grateful to have that".

And privacy... I like that…

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:56:11 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342387#post342387 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342387#post342387 that’s because floor towels is what they are.

Exactly!

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:25:20 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342386#post342386 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342386#post342386 that's because floor towels is what they are.

smart lad.

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:44:49 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342385#post342385 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342385#post342385 These words and phrases created by Claudia are used by us all now – that’s our family lingo.

We have a few of those too. Jim has always referred to bathmats as "floor towels" – and so do we all now.

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:15:00 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342384#post342384 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-zero/?p=342384#post342384 Discussion from blog post.

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