I done a little cry.
Iâd of got rip grandadâs old phone and text back. âJust been chatting with Jesus and he says to make your dad a cheese sandwich.â
Not only an amazing (& humble) story, but probably going to become a cracking feel good movie
Once a month ÂŁ10 a hand Poker player from Bridlington takes his bucket list dream a step further than expected then goes back to his old life
I think this belongs here.
I have had the real privilege of working with a couple of these wonderful examples of the richness of the human species.
And, just as in Iceland, pre-birth testing will soon ensure that these mistakes of nature are extinct in the UK.
The world will be slightly more âperfectâ and yet slightly more flawed.
Over the years MS sufferers have come to expect little in the way of relief.
So many false dawns over the years butâŚ
Are they âimprovingâ the testing then @saintbletch ?
When we were told that the girls had larger then normal nuchal folds we were offered the choice of 2 tests, amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, both had a chance of causing miscarriage so we declined. Our neo-natal doctor kept pushing for us to have the tests. We werenât given any advice on top of that!
The girls are 8 at the end of this month and Iâm glad we decided not to have any tests, theyâre hard work but theyâre worth it.
Yes, @btripz , DNA profiling will now give a 99% accurate, non-invasive screen at 12 weeks.
Currently in the UK, 90% of people given a Downâs Syndrome diagnosis chose to terminate.
In Iceland over the last 5 years 100% of diagnoses result in termination. Put another way, Downâs Syndrome births no longer happen there.
There is now a very real possibility that the UK will head that way too.
If you havenât seen it, this itâs a great documentary made by Sally Philips (who I have a huge crush on anyway) who has a Downâs Syndrome boy.
A statistic that shocked me from the film was that there are only 40,000 people with Downâs Syndrome in the UK.
If you didnât already know it, your girls are very, very special - and they are beautiful too BTW, but thatâs obviously down to Mrs B.
Aye @saintbletch I have seen that documentary, I must have missed the bit about the DNA screening though.
Apparently twins with Downs is a 1 in 2,000,000 occurence, so yes they are indeed very special 
Their beauty without is certainly not down to me, however their internal beauty is all mine 
So I get home this evening from a day working in Chippenham (actually Iâve been there all week, but only stayed over last night - in a Premier Inn (yes, I know), but thatâs neither here nor there). Anyway, my ever-loving wife is in something of a flap, because sheâd been to West Quay with her younger daughter and realised just before I got home that sheâd left her debit card in the parking ticket machine at Ikea.
She phoned Ikea, to see if her card had been found and handed in - seemed like a fair bet before phoning the bank to cancel the card. And it turns out that somebody had found the card in the ticket machine and handed it in. And who among us wouldnât have done the exact same thing?
Do you know what, probably a high majority of us on here(edit: handed the card in)
Though to be fair, weâre not representative of the population- or anything else tbf
Before my ever-loving wife* phoned Ikea one thing I said to her was that the great majority of people are basically honest. Hence my reason for not phoning the bank straight away to get the card cancelled. I would hold to this view - if the person finding your card in these circumstances (or similar|) hands it in then that doesnât mean youâve been lucky, as itâs what most people would do. If, on the other hand, they take the card and see how much they can get out of it then you most definitely have been unlucky.
Put another way, people are fundamentally decent. Except for Bletch, obviously.
* This particular, somewhat Homeric affectation is stolen from Damon Runyon, If youâve never read anything by him then you should.
Whereas if it had happened in UK he would have been arrested for breach of Health & Safety laws, ranted at on Twiter before being deported.
Sadly
Made me a little teary eyed.
Just thought iâd bring some christianity and morality here