Surprise! You
will remember my bird-watching friend, Tony, who used to take me on
bird-watching trips and firmly believed and accepted me as a blind
person who, however, happened to be fairly good (me that is!) at bird
song and calls? He went to Australia to visit family early in 2015
and I had heard nothing from him at all since – our only contact
had been via our mobile phones, we had each others number and that
was all. When I heard nothing during last summer, I tried his number
without luck. I thought either my calls didn't get as far as
Australia or that he had simply lost his phone altogether or
something much worse had happened.
Then, last week,
a message from him arrived on my mobile – an unusual happening
anyway – a voice message of course, I can't read texts (he
believes). He had indeed lost his phone and therefore my phone number
which was on it. Thinking he had simply just left it behind on his
return from Australia, he enquired of the family there, but no luck.
Then after Christmas this year, he had reason to get out the suitcase
he had taken there and back and, to his surprise, he found the phone
( a modern slim-line, I assume,) slipped down inside the case's
lining! Obviously the battery had gone very flat and the SIM card ran
out, but there was my phone number stored in the phone itself. My old
phone (large keys and only used my him and my brother, Chris), would
never had been that clever!!
So we are back in
contact and planing to resume the bird-watching trips as soon as the
horrible weather we have at the moment clears up. I'm really pleased,
I can tell you.
Jane
