Category: perspective
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The kindness of strangers
On Monday I had my (now) annual neurology follow up appointment and since the bus that stops near my home goes by the the hospital in Hertford I decided it was time for a new adventure. I hoped to have no problem with this adventure thanks to placing a beacon on my destination on my…
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Bus Hide and Seek
Too many times people get confused… If I’m blind how can I see. This video is me describing my experience while waiting for my bus. https://youtube.com/shorts/nzViNW2QzTg?si=_FfDN-WqdnX2O8tb And this is the text of a recent instagram post I made sharing the video. “The video is of me describing my experience waiting for a bus as a…
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Maybe gone but not forgotten
I was all set to start quilting my next project (the 3 quilts I briefly mentioned last time) https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/04/17/how-can-it-already-be-mid-april/ What stopped me? I got distracted by finding the first quilt top I made after being “certified” blind in October 2017. https://wasthatadinosaur.wordpress.com/2019/11/01/finally-registered/ The paperwork was filled out at the hospital and that paperwork went to the…
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A muddy early spring walk
As I’ve got older, and my eyesight has deteriorated you’d think that there was less for me to enjoy. Yesterday’s walk is a good example to share (16th February 2024). All photo collages described in the text beneath them. Flowers Left is a large photo I took by laying my iPhone under the snowdrops and…
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Perspective
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? I’ve mentioned in other blogposts how losing most of my sight and becoming diagnosed medically blind a few weeks before my 55th birthday was a piffling nuisance rather than a tragedy due to other experiences I’d had… After all when…
Was that a dinosaur? 2.0 