Slighty batty

Best smell ever - the head of your newborn child or grandchild. Always smells amazing, I could get quite high on it. Other nice smells are viburnum, wild aniseed, and tobacco stalks. Smells I can’t stand are rotting fish and Parmesan cheese

When I was a kid the little girl next door to us caught whooping cough. My bedroom was next to hers and the partition wall was very thin, I heard every single cough. I can’t describe how awful it was, it seemed to go just on and on, all night every night for what seemed like ages to me. Bad enough listening to someone else’s kid who’s ill, but think how distressing it must be if it’s your own toddler and you put them in that way because you wouldn’t have them vaccinated.

Leuven University in Belgium recently did a study and found that autistic children had less anxiety and settled in better at school if they used an oxytocin nose-spray. Maybe talk with your doctor and check if that might also help autistic adults?

My great-grandma earned herself the nickname "Snip" because after an argument with her husband she cut off half of his moustache while he was asleep.

His birth was registered as Alonza Hodkin in Q2 1882 with mothers maiden name Gregory. He was baptised 17 May 1882 at St Silas. Parents James Hodkin and Sarah (marriage of James Hodkin and Sarah Gregory was on 17 November 1870 at Sheffield Cathedral.) At the time of his baptism they were living at 55 Hodgson St. Alonzo married Lydia Bertha Boulby at St Stephens on 31 May 1903. In the 1911 and 1921 census Alonzo and Lydia were living at 68 Ellison St. In 1911 he was an engineers labourer, and in 1921 a scragg driver for John Browns Atlas works on Saville St. In the 1939 register he was a "scragg driver, testing springs" and by then he was living at 231 Buchanan Rd. He died in April 1951 aged 68 and was buried at City Rd cemetery, from 119 Alexandra Rd. Buried in the same plot as his mother Sarah, and a child Harry Hodkin who died in 1905 aged 2 years. From what I can tell Alonzo and Lydia had 10 children. Perhaps someone clever can explain what a scragg was, I've never heard of it.