Get a life Mr Faking It
Today I was walking down the street with my best friend, my mobility cane. Suddenly a male voice shouted out ‘faking it’. I looked around. I could only see one man sitting on a park bench. And I was the only one walking in the vicinity of this out-of-control clap trap. Has anyone else ever […]
For f…. sake, watch where you’re going
An average person said to me last week For f…. sake, watch where you’re going. I’ll never forget it. it’s been added to my bank of other comments of the same ilk. I’ll never forget them either. But thankfully it’s only a small minority of people who show that level of intolerance. Just the same […]
How I met a quokka and rode a bike
I did a bit of bike riding prior to the Lycra Boy episode. One particularly joyous time I recall was on Rottnest Island. Rottnest Island is a picturesque island 18 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia. It is home to the quokkas, cute little marsupials that are unique to Western Australia and distant cousins […]
The secret life of me …
For many years I kept a secret. The ‘thing’ that led to the secret started in my childhood. My parents brushed it off as clumsiness. I bumped into walls, doors, furniture ,,. Outside it was worse. I bumped into signs, fell into holes and tripped over constantly. Mealtimes often ended badly because I’d spill my […]
Low vision No vision – Coping during Covid
People with low vision or no vision have challenges in life that impact on everything they do every day of their lives. I know because I have low vision, specifically Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a disease that causes blindness. The pandemic has added another dimension to the challenges we already face. For example, it’s impossible to […]
Living With Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP)
I have this ‘thing’ called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). It’s a genetic disease that causes irreversible vision loss (low vision) and can lead to complete blindness. I have downplayed this for most of my life because it’s too hard to explain why you can see a bird in the sky but you can’t see the pencil in front […]
Zoom Fest
I’ve gone zooming mad During this time of isolation where would we be without Zoom? Now I ask you. And where would blind and vision impaired people be without Vision Australia (VA) and Blind Citizens Australia (BCA) …. and Zoom. I feel so connected to this community that I could howl. There’s no need to […]
How are your eyes going?
Having a smashing time ‘How are your eyes going?’ I often get asked that question. It usually pops out of someone’s head as a precursor to a conversation about their own eye sight. Some time ago I was invited (who knows why) to dinner with a bunch of women that I didn’t really know very well. I […]