Spring
arrived in Southern England last week (although gone again this
week!) and we had several lovely days. My bird watching companion,
Tony,
got in touch and I had a lovely morning out, blindsimming and bird
listening. If you haven't read about these outings of mine then
go to our web-site – meblindfolded.wix.com/blindsimming-lady
-page
11. (together
with previous blogs here).
I have an old, but robust, large-keyed mobile phone which I use only
for blindsimming purposes and only Chris and Tony have the number.
Tony has to ring me to
talk
about arranging
outings,
knowing that it is no good sending text messages as he believes me to
be completely blind – quite flattering for me after several years
now with him on occasional bird 'watching' outings. Meeting him off
the bus last week then, he gave
me (just
to hold)
a large heavy book which he said was the Sussex Bird Survey Atlas,
published a year ago, listing all the bird species, each with its own
map and descriptions as surveyed in Sussex a few years ago by
volunteers such as him and, to his pride, listing his name in
an Appendix
at the back together
with mine!!. (So
he said – I
couldn't see it for myself, of course.) He said he had submitted my
name together with his as I had helped so much at the time
identifying bird calls and songs and there it was (he said) on page
603. I have looked in our local library since but they didn't
have a copy – too specialist, they said!
I
managed all the bus and walking completely blind perfectly okay, even
though out of practice since my last trip out last Autumn. I'm going
to try to expand the trip a bit, it's
almost
getting to the boring stage now.
More
next time then,
Jane.
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