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Viewing entries posted in January 2012
First impressions
After a recent conversation with a friend on the serious lack of eligible men around, we got onto the subject of online dating. Now, I have never been a fan of meeting people on the internet, ok I have never actually tried it myself, however the very idea just doesn’t sit well with me.
Did you know that it is national braille week…
I have always been impressed by those who can read braille. Watching someone’s fingers dart across the page of a braille book is almost akin to watching a pianist working the keys of a piano. To me, the raised dots on the paper communicate nothing, but to some braille readers they hold the key to the works of literary genius’ as well as being a tool for making day to day living much easier – but not for all braille readers.
National Braille week 2012
Recently I was asked if I thought the art of reading braille would fade out, now that assistive technology has become common place in homes and offices of people with sight loss. I replied that, to me, it still has a very important role to play, both in leisure activities and the working lives of blind and partially sighted people.
Here's to 2012: to hope and happy happenings
If 2011 has taught me anything, it is that I am indeed a weeble. I began the year with hope in my heart and have ended it just the same, but the stuff that happened in between is what has made me certain of my weeble status.
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