schedules and the school schedules for the kids work together, there s not a whole lot of days every month where we re all together at the same time. we have little bits, an hour or two here at the end of the day, if they ve not fallen asleep already, but whole days don t happen very often for us. a few years ago, we went to the beach for a couple of days together, but they were very small. to break routine for an autistic child is. can be disastrous. so this gives us an opportunity to break routine only for a little while and try it, and see how the boys cope in a different environment, and still have some of their comfortable surroundings they ll have us and the older boys and some of their familiar objects, but be in a different place, and see if we can start taking longer trips. 0k, how are we going to do an aeroplane?
teenage kicks as the best pop song ever written. the idea is feargal will teach me to fish. quite a challenge. simple. one, two, three. and you feed it with that hand a little bit? i am just letting it run through itself. if you get enough energy into it, the line itself will extend and shoot out. my turn now. just go for it. one, two. 0h. it s up in the tree. the good news is, you are not dropping your bait cast. how did a working class punk from derry end up.? this is considered the gentleman s sport, isn t it? it s a long time since anybody called me that. ironically enough, if you want to get into fly fishing, there is no finer place than northern ireland. a, it is not considered elitist,
so, what we can do is one, two, three. it s simple. one, two, three. and you are sort of feeding it with that hand a little bit? i m just letting it run through itself. if you get enough energy into it, the line itself will extend and shoot out all by itself. i guess it s my turn now. just go for it. one, two. oh, it s up in the tree! well, the good news is you re not dropping your back cast. how did.? i mean, because you grew up in derry in northern ireland, didn t you? yep. and you were a working class lad. yeah. how did a working class punk from derry end up.? this is considered the gentleman s sport! it s a long time since anybody called me that, i have to tell you. well, ironically enough, if you want to get into fly fishing, there is no finer place than northern ireland. a, it s not considered elitist because lots of people do it.
hold on! and off we go! i had a lot of fears going into this trip. we have a special needs child, and you can t predict their behaviour, and you especially can t predict it in public around other people. and it didn t happen. that park was made for children like them. so we felt safe. that s one thing we really have trouble with sometimes, we don t really feel safe taking them to the normal places where regular children are. to be honest, they are having a lot more fun. than i would ve thought. normally to get them to have this much fun is kind of rare, | we have to do the little - things, make weird noises, i that s the only time they ll be. laughing and smiling this much. but this whole place has that effect. - i was literally terrified that we would get into a situation where they d be melting down, lots of tears,
how did.? i mean, because you grew up in derry in northern ireland, didn t you? yep. and you were a working class lad. yeah. how did a working class punk from derry end up.? this is considered the gentleman s sport! it s a long time since anybody called me that, i have to tell you. well, ironically enough, if you want to get into fly fishing, there is no finer place than northern ireland. a, it s not considered elitist because lots of people do it. it s cheap, it s easily accessible and it s open to all. so, by way of example, when i was growing up in derry i could go to the middle of town, get on a bus and, 20 minutes later, be standing on the banks of a river on the edge of derry called the faughan. and, to this day, it s still got salmon running up the river faughan. and i think, at the time, membership of the faughan anglers association was, like, 15, 20 quid or something.