Have now noticed the date on Wayward Radish’s original post.

The ninth of the ninth 2009 at 9:09.

If you were trying to recognise International Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Day, then congratulations.

Now celebrate responsibly.

(And I am well aware that gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and probably the one most likely to kill me – in the long run).

Possibly against my own better judgement, I signed up to a Heather Forbes list after I heard that she and Federici were to speak on the 29th August 2009. I wanted to be able to listen to the soundbites.

On September the 4th of 2009, Watching the Waters posted something about using Federici’s three-foot method, as well as Forbes’ ‘love-based’ techniques.

(To the woman’s credit, ‘little miss Radalicious’ had had a neuropsychological assessment in July of this year. But when a word like ‘neuropsychological’ is dropped about, I take it ‘on advisement’ – to coin a phrase).

Postscript: Did you hear about Elton John possibly thinking about adopting this 14-month-old Ukrainian boy called Lev? From experience, these choices of children don’t go well. Pavarotti and his wife Nicoletta went to a Polish orphanage back in 1995, and they fell in love with an 18-month-old called Petrovski. Oh dear, it did soften my heart at the time (when it did need to be softened).

hey, and once again thank you for going through the trouble to keep the info out there on the web for others to see