Category: Technology

  • The kindness of strangers

    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…

  • Back in April 2023 I wrote the following post https://wasthatadinosaur.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/a-distressing-time/ Well in the summer this year I got another we want you to pay a ridiculously high direct debit bill. I phoned and this time got a lovely lass who finally got someone to connect my accessible meter monitor and I was told the smart…

  • While I can! (part 1)

    The title of this blogpost is my new mantra. Losing most of my sight and becoming by medical definition blind didn’t make me give up the things I love once I found the tools I needed to adapt how I did things. Struggling with symptoms from my newly diagnosed MS (multiple sclerosis) has already caused…

  • This is a sci-fi future

    Do you remember life before the internet? I’m hurtling towards my 64th birthday. When I was born a computer was a very specialised piece of equipment and the “average man on the street” would only know of the concept from sci-fi books and movies. Computers still had their own rooms with a cabled intranet when…