Sense 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.”
The 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. Dentist! Injections!! Entirely different story, I’m genuinely dentist and needle phobic.
National Lipreading Awareness Week Next week marks the start of national Lipreading Awareness Week 2015 (14-19th September) and the UK hearing loss charity Hearing Link, is challenging YOU to test your lipreading skills! Lipreading Awareness Week, led by the Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA), is an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of lipreading for […]
Sea 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 silly season.
Hear & Now events People with hearing loss in England will have a unique opportunity this autumn to find out the ‘Hear & Now’ of hearing loss at FREE social and information events being run by the UK charity Hearing Link. ‘Hear & Now’ offers individuals and professionals access to a one-stop-shop of valuable resources, equipment demonstrations, and advice […]
Why 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 I find most things in life funny and still crack up at the scene in Despicable Me 2 when the minions charge after the ice cream van. I’m not […]
Disappointments 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 singing since 1976 and I’d have lavished Tea and ice cream on her – real dairy ice […]
