Intruders upstairs?
Sunday night, 9.40pm, Sue and I got in after a long and busy day, our plans were - bath, eat, stare at TV for a while and then sleep.While Sue had a bath I wandered round the house drawing curtains etc...
View ArticleLaughter At The End Of The Tunnel
TV gets away with it all the time, so why shouldn’t I? I’m going to repeat a subject - Dame Evelyn Glennie. But this time I want to focus on the hope she brings to us, the hearing partners.Last week...
View ArticleAnd About Bloody Time
Ofcom propose to improve the standard of subtitling. Good, but what took them so long?My last comment on subs was how they had improved. I typed too soon. Over the past three weeks the standard has...
View ArticleMore fiddling than I can manage
Hello, Who's There?Push button - BUZZZZ.Voice -“Hello”.Me - “I’ve got an appointment for 1.”Voice - “Sorry, couldn’t hear, that bus drowned you out.”Me - “Pardon, I couldn’t hear because of that bus...
View ArticleDiary of a fool
I’ve never been fortunate enough to watch more than 15 minutes of a Morse episode on TV or read the books. I know how stupid it is to comment on anything without having all the...
View ArticleHear Less To Learn More
Sue and I were talking the other day about hearing partners understanding deafness – nothing deep and meaningful, just what’s helped me understand the requirements of someone who’s become deaf. We both...
View ArticleDream a Little Dream (of Mama cass, not me)
As well as being beneficial to mental health, dreams have been the source for and subject of all varieties of art – they’ve also resulted in some outrageously harebrained ideas. Anyone whose spent time...
View ArticleBSL Signing - 'Apple For The Teacher'?
It’s taken far too long, but Sue finally started a stage 1 British Sign Language (BSL) course last week.Ironically, after four years of failing to find a college which succeeded in running a course...
View ArticleLooking and learning
Week three of BSL and Sue’s not feeling so anxious or out of place. Not criticising tutor or classmates, it’s just that for some deaf people - more than hearing folk could imagine - entering a learning...
View ArticleBeowulf the Scourge of Hearing Loss?
During education I had girlfriends, who had fathers, who had misgivings about me. Well, not just me, any lad who spent time with their daughters – which I now fully understand. However Margaret’s...
View ArticleDeaf Characters in Novels, again.
In a previous blog I mentioned listening to a radio play of the Morse story, ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn'. I was incensed at the discrimination and ill-will aimed at the eponymous Mr Quinn...
View ArticleTimes of the Signs
Those old enough to recall Jackanory (BBC story telling series for youngsters, 1965- 1996) will have their favourite story tellers. The talents of Bernard Cribbins and Kenneth Williams always prompted...
View ArticleForward Thinking
Laptop and pc developed serious problems for Christmas, all better now.New Year frequently involves looking forward and back. When it comes to hearing loss I’ve found looking back frequently unhelpful,...
View ArticleTo Tell or Not to Tell?
Anyone out there got experience of wearing an informative reflective vest? For a few years now Sue and I have discussed the merits of her wearing a ‘Deaf Rider’ vest. I’ve got a thick marker pen and...
View ArticleTable Manners
Signing is going well, Sue’s gaining confidence in her group as she increases her vocabulary. Even so, the first exam a couple of weeks ago was a bit of a tribulation. Not that it was hard so much as...
View ArticleRaising the Rabble
No offence to the Hearing Link team or anyone involved in the deaf community who was looking forward to the TV programme below. Hopefully you’ll understand what I’m on about. Hearing viewers who do...
View ArticleFantasy Island
I’ve mentioned that not being able to share with Sue has lessened my enjoyment of music. Well, it hasn’t improved and I have a dilemma on my doorstep.If I wanted to impress with the sophistication of...
View ArticleDeaf Awareness Week
I’ve struggled with how to express my opinion of the significances of Deaf Awareness Week, this is the 14th rewrite. In previous versions I’d written how DAW will make hearing people aware of the best...
View ArticleDeaf Awareness Week, the Movie .....................
................................. Opening. Caught your attention, didn’t I? Now reread the heading in the deep, bass, tones used in most American movies.AH! Of course, for a deaf person that’s a...
View ArticleWish she'd said that quieter
Lip reading is a difficult, but rewarding (what an understatement) skill to master.Sue spent three years at lip reading classes with me joining her for the last – not because I couldn’t be bothered for...
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