Something for your ears. This is the link to the audio podcast I did with Dave (who is also blind) last week. To get rid of the adverts click ‘skip’. https://youtu.be/c6LwmqzjxIc
Latest adventure. After I’d wandered out of the pool, I found that the SD card holding lots of books had got lost from my MP3 player. I knew that it must be somewhere in the other rooms. And absolutely no point hunting for it solo.
Friend Sue turns up a few hours later and I explain the problem. She hunts around and then discovers it in the pool! Sitting on the bottom which is just too deep with all my buoyancy to get down to so I strip off and into a cossie and she gets long-handled dustpan and brush in the hope that she can direct me to trap and recover it. Imagine the scene: blind person with implements up to her neck in water being directed by person facing the opposite direction and trying to get all the lefts and rights correct. Not a great deal of success.
Hence, I get out, Sue strips off and takes charge of the implements while I dry and dress. She manages to recover some small pieces as obviously it is disintegrating.
Eventually she gives up in disgust and leaps out for a warm shower. Imagine Our surprise when, as she is pulling back the curtain, there is a spare SD card. I gave it a brisk rub-down to dry it and checked it out – still working! We think it had been sticking to the shower curtain all the time.