Mine's not a pint
Thanks to the email from Anon with comments on Meniere’s and the coping tip of vigorous head shaking, which is similar to advice Vestibular Rehabilitation gave Sue after years of sitting motionless...
View ArticleMoon River
Credit where it’s due. I’ve learned I was wrong, thanks to subtitles.I thought the actress, Audrey Hepburn, couldn’t sing and had all her ‘songs’ dubbed by a voice artist. I’d shared that knowledge...
View ArticleWorld War One and hearing
As I write this ceremonies are being held remembering the start of World War 1, I’m not watching because I’d find it too emotional. I often think about the men and women caught up by, and severely...
View ArticleHero of the hour? Or just a pain in the neck?
Our confusion over me avoiding someone reminded me of a tremendously heroic incident by me, which ended with me feeling grumpy and somewhat superfluous.Last year Sue and I walked across a large car...
View ArticleRows and Arguments
If anyone wants to comment I’m always pleased to hear from you and shared tips (ideas, not gratuities) are always welcome as they’d save us having to find out we had a problem the hard way, such as how...
View ArticleGlancing In The Dark – apologies to Mr Springsteen
Autumn; Sue’s back at college learning British Sign Language (re-taking level one) and, apart from Bonfire Night, barbeques are in store.We enjoy barbeques, I burn the food and we share the eating. For...
View ArticlePainting a Gloomy Picture
I’m not commenting on how David Hockney chooses to lead his life. I mean no offence and respect his opinions and his options. I’d heard Hockney speak before of his severe hearing loss and how he...
View ArticleI'm a swell guy
Slight pain near a tooth on Thursday turned into agony on Friday night - luckily I have Co-codamol on prescription which helped. Saturday morning I was told I had two large abscesses that had nothing...
View ArticleWristbands
So, how was last year for you?The most cheering event of ‘14 for me is simple, and cheap. Even better, it signifies a change in how Sue views her loss of hearing.
View ArticleTinnitus Awareness Week
To recap for new readers. Our introduction to Meniere’s Disease was when Sue woke me in the middle of the night to ask why all the church bells were ringing, she had tinnitus. The internal noises have...
View ArticleUK National Blog Awards - being shortlisted
It was a simple question, how did I feel to be shortlisted for the 2015 Blog Awards? So why has it taken seven rewrites to get to reach an answer?
View ArticleDowns & ups
I’ve tried to keep a positive view on things here; if someone is visiting these pages then they probably need reassurance. But there is a negative side to being positive - that new visitor to Hearing...
View ArticlePractice makes perfect
Well, I thought the new laptop would solve the computer problems. Wrong. Turned out the problem transferred with the recovered data. Wonder if I should have binned the old laptop?
View ArticleA Capital Day Out Grommit (copyright Aardman Animations Ltd)
Sue and I paid a fleeting visit to London, just a dash up and back as she’d had to get back for her last BSL lesson before the final exam.
View ArticleDisappointments mount up
Fleetwood Mac played the Isle of Wight and even though Stevie Nicks must have passed within a few miles of me at most, she didn’t stop to whisk me off. Crushed, that’s what I am, I’ve adored her...
View ArticleWhy is it a secret?
Before anyone accuses me of not having a sense of humour – wronnnnggggg. Yeah, I know that’s the comment of someone without a sense of humour.
View ArticleSea in the Dark Lipreading (pun intended)
It’s been a traditional Bank Holiday weekend. It rained - a lot. Yesterday I briefly skimmed through the Sunday Telegraph seeking something other than gossip and speculation that seems to fill the...
View ArticleThe Man in the Ironed Mask
Spiders, confined spaces, clowns, no problems for me. I’m a real man, able to fight my own weight in chocolate Santas.Injections!! Dentists!! Entirely different story, I’m genuinely dentist and needle...
View ArticleSense of Humour
If I was a successful writer or just rich, people would smile (condescendingly) and whisper “eccentric.” Instead I get everything from “odd sense of humour” to “weird.”
View ArticleIt’s a Sign!
I’ve mentioned how easily amused I am by wording and signs and, I’m afraid I mislead. The Iceland T-shirt read “ask me about home delivery”, same meaning but not what I recalled. Saw a van this morning...
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