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The Vanishing Piano
The human brain affects how we see things.
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The Power Of The Screen
It occurs to me that people with normal seeing and hearing abilities may not fully understand the power of the smartphone, the computer and, in particular, the power of the screen. Like many in my position with poor sight and hearing, I know far more of what is going on looking at a screen than…
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Guide dog – Poor sight and poor hearing
It’s a great way to get out and about and keep fit but you have to be very alert and realise that you are often significantly unaware of things going on around you. Your routes are mapped in your head and, even with a bit of useful vision and hearing, the number of clues available…
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Headphones
\\DON’TFORGET THE HEADPHONES For those of us lucky enough to benefit, modern hearing aids are wonderful but perhaps the sounds we hear are not nearly as good as what we remember from the good old days of big hi-fi speakers and lots of base to our music. So, while being laid up with a broken…
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Pets For Partials
Pets for partials is doing the rounds as a moan about guide dogs being too much given to people who are partially sighted, not totally blind. I have a guide dog and a little sight too. Perhaps all this is the tip of the iceberg of a highly sensitive visual disability issues. i.e. is it…
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1940 BEFORE MY WORLD BEGAN
Guess I had a fragile start. My parents were married in 1934. Around Christmas 1935, they went up to Blackpool where twins were borne but died within 24 hours. Dad had to return to Wolverhampton leaving Mum to bear the burden or lose his job at a time of mass-unemployment. In January 1937 my elder…
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