A partner’s view

Tony & Sue Long in woods Tony Long is married to Sue, who has a profound hearing loss through Meniere’s Disease and relies on lipreading/speechreading to follow what people are saying to her. She wears one hearing aid but it has only a limited benefit.

Tony’s blog is about how Sue’s deafness affects his day to day life as the hearing partner. He offers useful, interesting and thought-provoking insights about how he has learnt to adapt to his wife’s deafness.

Ann Thallon tells NHS

The latter half of 2018 saw a lot going on in our lives which is why I’ve not been around. This week I checked Hearing Link’s site and was shocked to see me, with Sue on the news page framing fellow volunteer Ann Thallon – pictured right. (The poster wasn’t our idea – sorry folks!). […]

Little town, big idea

We like Romsey. The small Hampshire market town can provide our basic needs – ‘Tea Cups’ tea shop (coffee and Cinnamon cake especially yumpshiss) and ‘Mole Valley’s’ country store where horse stuff and clothing can be found. What more does anyone need? Books. I prefer reading to TV and pop into the ‘Superbooks’ book shop […]

The Silver Screen

The recent revelations about how people have been mistreated in the ‘Hollywood industry’ either did the Oscars no good, or drew in viewers keen to see what would happen on the night. Surely though, very few were surprised by what’s been going on. Even though we don’t take an interest in the ceremony we were […]

Wakey, wakey!

Hi all, Thought you’d probably heard enough of my ramblings for a while, so I didn’t bother you for a few months. Hope you didn’t get too used to it, here’s some more rubbish. I’ll start the year with activities in the bedroom – – – – – – no, not that sort of thing, […]

Not An End, Just A change

Greeting from wet and wild Cornwall. As we arrived and began to pitch camp the rain started. Doesn’t bother us seasoned campers. On the way down we stopped at Morrisons, Bridport, for breakfast (living the high life). Couple of chaps came at sat at the next table and proceeded to converse in BSL, I leant […]

Another One Bites the Dust

Haven’t been online for a while due to laptop having a severe infection and slowing to pace that was unusable. Killed the virus, only ran slower and locked up. So… this is the first thing I’ve typed on our new, sparkly, crispy clean laptop. Won’t last. I’m a pipe smoker who insists that, just as […]

I Do Like That Shirt

Some of Sue’s recent pithy and astute observations. “Yes, you have put on weight”. Well, duh! “Those baggy brown cord trousers are what an old man would wear”. Whoopee, I’m not old yet. “I don’t like that shirt”. Rubbish. Disagree. My favourite Hawaiian shirt is a silky, midnight blue creation with subdued silver orchids on […]