I’ve regularly been providing audio recipes to share across all the local Talking Newspaper organisations – simply to encourage others with visual and other conditions that cooking needn’t be impossible. The latest are yoghurt bread, really easy rough puff pastry …
For those with nothing better to do, here’s a little interview I did with this radio station while at the recent Talking News Federation conference.
Celebrating blind awareness month, fabulous volunteers from all over the UK gathered near Winchester last weekend for the annual conference of the national Talking News Federation. These are the stalwarts from local Associations who create audio recordings for people who…
This long running TV programme is looking for visually impaired people to take part. The information is below and I asked them about accessibility for people like us. They said: “In terms of the Showstopper challenge specifically, it’s difficult for…
It’s been a couple of decades, I reckon, since I last joined the naval lawyers for their annual bash. I would have said “knees-up” but we are rather a more sedate and sober collection of serving and retired officers, with…
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Recording more recipes for the national Talking News Federation just recently. They’ll distribute my versions of rough puff pastry, hot chocolate drink and yoghurt bread to local organisations across the country. Being blind doesn’t have to stop us making great…
Imagine this edited version of the BBC’s summary of Lady Justice Thirlwall’s report findings were written about vulnerable adult patients like you and me. My conclusion is: Many of us with life-changing health conditions, disabilities and other vulnerabilities aren’t against…
That disastrous hotel venture was only just over a week ago. It was all part of celebrating a niece’s wedding in the fabulous setting of Mount Edgecumbe, just across the river Tamar from Plymouth. It had never crossed my mind…
Last week, stayed with this hotel chain in Plymouth. The state of the entrance hall throughout our four day stay should have been enough warning of what was to come. Having booked an “accessible” room six months earlier, the reality…
