I just laughed. It seemed to work though as he chuckled back at me then wandered off.  It was an old guy who had said something randomly to me as I pushed my daughters buggy. She had stared at him straight-faced as he walked by so he murmured something witty/sarcastic/humorous/who knows…  The truth is I…

A friend of mine is notoriously late for everything. We laugh about it and we wind her up but she just can’t help it.  Punctuality and her just don’t gel… It’s probably lucky that she’s an artist and forgiven for her terrible time keeping, it’s “part of the trade” she insists “we don’t follow clocks,…

I came across the below post on the Internet. It wasn’t aimed at someone who’s deaf but they mention being “different” and I could instantly relate.  It’s the type of advice I wish I knew about when I was younger. So I didn’t go through my teenage years trying to hide my deafness or the…

I very recently got married and it’s still sinking in. The fact that I have a new surname and a husband is something that I find myself giggling at like a child. It’s all a bit grown up for my liking despite the fact that I am a thirty year old working mother.  Regarding the…

Hearing aids. They’re not the trendiest of things are they? They’re not depicted as cool, people don’t aspire to wear them in order to look “clever” so they don’t have the appeal that spectacles have… They’re just functional.  And I admit my attitude to them has changed massively over the years.  Growing up I detested…

September. No matter how old I get it always meets me with a “back to school” feeling. And more so this year as my eldest starts nursery school…  Gone are the lazy, take-all-our-time-in-the-world style weekday mornings and its hello to school runs, road rage and hurried breakfasts.  Not a very optimistic outlook, I know. But…

They say you should never meet your idols. But I met one of mine last week and I was faaaar from disappointed. See below, myself with Caroline Parker or Caro as she’s affectionately known… Sign singing diva and BSL actress.  I first saw Caro perform when she was touring the one woman show, “Signs of…

The commercial for Rio Paralympics is out – and boy is it a good one.  I knew that the Paralympics had introduced the Superhuman theme back in 2012 but I wasn’t prepared for the sheer greatness of the new “Yes I Can!” advertisement.  It features more than 100 people with disabilities; musicians, dancers, office workers,…

It was only a chair.  It was just the placement of the chair that “told” others I was an – ahem – inbetweener.  I was at a children’s party, feeding my daughter while my son danced about when I noticed a deaf guy pointing at me.  He was asking others who had congregated in a…

“Deafness does not mean that you can’t hear, only that there is something wrong with the ears. Even someone who is totally deaf can still hear/feel sounds”. (Glennie, 2010) We had a visitor one day when I was at Mary Hare school for the deaf. She had wild hair and was moving about while she…