Cats and Chocolate

The past few months I’ve been spending a lot of time watching things on YouTube. Normally, I’m not that interested in YouTube, but I’ve become aware of the possibilities short films and series hold for the deaf world as well as the hearing world. Last year, it was all about Lee’s BSL Songs (which by

Recently, I’ve been inspired by quite a few videos in the TED archive. Some of them help me understand aspects of my personality that I might have considered a bit of a weakness, at least in the past. For the sake of this post, I’m thinking about introversion, and how there does seem to be [...]

Growing up as a deaf person is never easy. It doesn’t matter how much you can or can’t hear – because its not really about sound, its about society and reactions, service provision, discrimination, barriers that we have to knock down. It’s about how you approach things and your attitude towards life

I hope you’ve had a good weekend – mine has been another action packed weekend going here, there and everywhere – and now I’m exhausted. Maybe sometime next week I’ll get to have a lie-in and relax a bit. I’m just checking in because I’ve been listening to the Rolling Stones a bit this evening, [...

(…and no, it’s not a typo…) On Thursday last week, my sister, Mum and I hopped on the tube to go and see Matilda – the West End sensation. We had been to see it before around the time it opened, because it was captioned, but there was a problem with the position of the [...]

At the moment, these things seem to get me through: (Hot spearmint tea after midnight) (Sleepy Flossie who wakes me up every morning) (Reading good books) (The hope of sunny days to come…) (Trips into London) (Beautiful captivating moments) (Good memories and creating new ones) (Being creative) I ho

What a week it’s been – I’ve been running all over London every day this week, battling one of the nastiest colds I’ve had for a while. Its been a brilliant week, despite my transformation into a growly voiced honking weirdo (apologising to everyone for not ‘being myself’). It started on Tuesday whe

I hope you’ve had a good Easter/Chocolate weekend, or a good holiday over the past few days! Mine has mainly featured midnight baking (as usual) before a family gathering on Friday, then Saturday was a lazy day where I read Delirium by Lauren Oliver in one day, then started Divergent by Veronica Rot

I hope you’ve had a good Easter/Chocolate weekend, or a good holiday over the past few days! Mine has mainly featured midnight baking (as usual) before a family gathering on Friday, then Saturday was a lazy day where I read Delirium by Lauren Oliver in one day, then started Divergent by Veronica Rot