See last weeks blog.
Chris, my brother, thinks that I can
carry on with my blindsimming visits to to the Bird Sanctuary alone
(!) without my bird-watching friend who has gone off to Australia for
six months.
Chris occasionally visits a building
project which takes him past the village and lake/reservior where we
have been going. Up to now, my friend met me off the bus and drove me
up to the reservoir car-park, which I now know is at the north end of
the reservoir. The south end, where there is the concrete dam which
forms the reservoir and has a footpath which goes right round the
reservoir is nearer to the village but not on the road to the
car-park. Realising this, Chris then discovered that if I went one
bus stop further on, out of the village and got off, there is another
road up to the reservoir belonging to the Water Authority, with a
gate so that only their traffic can use it, but which is open to
pedestrians (walkers) and is therefore a good surface for me to
follow safely right up to the water-side.
Remember that I start my blindsimming
well before I get on the bus at the other end and that my friend
appears to accept that I am totally blind (as I am then, almost), I
have never seen the village nor the lake nor the Bird Reserve, nor
even the bus, for that matter. I've seen the photo that Chris put on
our website though.
So I was very doubtful about Chris's
proposal.
However he is going to do the route
with me, one morning each week for this month, bus ride and all, to
persuade me it is okay and allow me to practise (blindfolded of
course as before) and get confident to do it all on my own.
I will keep you up-to-date.
Jane
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