WIN an Apple iPod by playing the Great Online Christmas Scavenger Hunt.

The Great Online Christmas Scavenger Hunt

WIN an APPLE iPOD (a portable device for storing and playing music files) this Christmas by Joining in Outfit Inspiration’s Great Online Christmas Scavenger Hunt!

This is a free competition, open to all ages...yes even to us Dystonics who often can't make ourselves heard or understood in busy music and technology stores.

To enter this competition, visit Outfit Inspirations and begin your hunt for hidden letters, scattered across several other blog sites (including this one...there is a letter beneath a Christmas tree here on this site).

To play, and hopefully win, you need:

• The entry form (available by clicking here)
• An email address
• A computer
• A riddle-smashing brain

Collect all the hidden Christmas Letters (9) using the nine clues on the Entry Form. The hidden letters can be found at the end of a set of Christmas Baubles, on a flashing promotional banner. When you have found all the letters, unscramble them to identify the Magic Christmas Word.

The Christmas Letters are scattered across the web, on different blog sites. When you find the answer to each clue, the clickable banner will take you to the next site in the hunt (the clue on your entry form will give you some ideas around where to look on each site - my hint to you is to use the category secton to narrow your search - my categories can be found on the right hand side of my blog). Every letter is hidden, so you might need to use the clues and sift through a few pages on the site to find them!

It really is easy, all you have to do is print out the entry form with all the clues on it and start clicking you way around blog sites.

I wish you good luck and good cheer.

Photos of Sue (posted by Megan)

Once again, in Mum's absence (and because I have access to the photo's), I thought I would post some photos of Mum taken on Christmas Day, 2006. Given that some of Mum's extended family in Sydney and England log into the site, the photos make for a nice update.

Although her disability is severe, she manages well with the help of her flowery walking stick (never far from her side), my bother Darren and her food and drink thickener.

I hope you enjoy them. Megan Bayliss

P.S: We call Mum, "Grandma" whenever the kids are around. That's why I've titled the photos as Grandma.

Grandma Bayliss with Boy and son-in-law.

Grandma about to open one of her gifts from the family in England . She was mouthing, "From England," because her voice was weak on Christmas Day.

Grandma and her presents from her cousins in England. It was difficult for Grandma to hold everything in place while I took the photo.

Grandma don't you dare waste those prawns by choking on them!!!!

Merry Christmas Mum

Merry Christmas Mum.

I have set this blog up for you so that you can communicate with other people who also have Spasmodic Dysphonia, so that you can continue to consciousness raise about the disability, and so that you have a supportive and global community that works together to eradicate disability discrimination.

As part of this Christmas gift, I undertake to show you how to post blogs and maintain your new support group web site.

Megan xxxxx