Hugo de Savary's – living with learning disabilities.

The learning disability sector is going through massive changes due to the cuts and I’m aware that it has been several months since my last post. My lame excuse is 2 very young children, sleep deprivation and it’s being very much more about surviving rather than living.

As possibly mentioned in an earlier post, my good friend Thom a veteran father with 2 children told me that the second baby is at least ten times as hard on the parents as the first. I can confirm that in our little experience this certainly has been the case.

Well at least for a period of several weeks that have now blurred, where a relay of sicknesses played their part, testing our already depleted energy levels. However things are now looking brighter, Zara is 6 months old, smiling has now replaced crying, and without being too cocky, I think we’ve hit some light at the end of the tunnel.

In the dark periods we did manage to grab some brief moments of sanity, meeting up with old friends and going away for the odd weekend with the children. We even managed to steal ourselves to the theatre where of all people, we saw the ‘One to One Show’ hosted by Gyles Brandreth– he used to be on TV-AM wearing bad taste jumpers, became a Tory MP and is still a regular on Channel 4′s Countdown; Radio 4′s Just a Minute and BBC One’s The One Show. We were the youngest in the audience by at least 30 years and fortunately on this occasion weren’t seeing Jimmy Carr, as we were sitting in the front row and Kirsten was called up on stage to be his conversation buddy. I have to say that he was the perfect tonic and it pains me to say, but Gyles Brandreth may have been the turning point when life started once again to become more manageable.

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