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The dance floor and I will not be meeting on New Year’s Eve
All right then. Christmas is over. You have had your fill of turkey for the year and then some, and it is time to get yourself ready for the next big event of the holiday calendar, New Year’s Eve. For us visually impaired folk, venturing out on New Year's Eve can only be described as being akin to Dante's Inferno.
The Conquering Hero
When I was at junior school my dad gave me a shilling to open a Yorkshire Bank account. He gave my sister one as well in the hope that we would become savers. Each week my sister added to it from her pocket money. On leaving junior school at eleven her shilling had grown to the princessly sum of two pounds ten and sixpence. Mine was still a shilling. My dad rued, 'the trouble with you lad is money burns holes in your pockets'. I’ve not changed. This year I got my local government lump sum pension in my pockets, so now I’m blowing it on a trip to Antarctica.
VIP Indeed – when Visually Impaired and Very Important are one and the same
When we decided to go to Sharm El Sheikh for our summer holiday, we truly had no idea what was in store for us. As Martin is 10 and an only child, when we heard that the newly built Sunrise Tirana hotel had an Aqua Park with 15 slides inside the resort, that was that. But being the anally retentive sort that I am, I wanted to ensure that our room had easy access to all amenities and to find out if we could reserve 3 sun loungers immediately adjacent to the main pool for the duration of our stay, as this would make a huge difference to our holiday. As there is nothing even remotely akin to the DDA in Egypt, I thought it was worth a punt and was delighted when the hotel assured us that all was in hand.
Indispensable? - Give us a break!
Believing a Welfare Rights Officer to be ...always busy ...always in demand ...a font of expert knowledge ...indispensable ...I needed a reality check before I could book leave. Discover the Indispensability Test and why I can go on holiday without pangs of guilt.
Summer holiday planning in a thousand easy steps
With summer fully upon us, the prospect of upping sticks and going on a summer holiday is both exciting and a little daunting. Don’t get me wrong, I love to travel and think it is vital to have a change of scene and a break from work, but going on holiday for family Wassmer is something that needs to be executed with military precision.
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