Happy (belated!) New Year 28/01/2015

I hope you all had a nice Christmas break as we did here at home. But no blindfolding at all. Chris's wife and my husband don't know of our mutual pre-occupation with blindfolding and we are quite happy that it remains that way, but it does have its limitations. My other blindfold enthusiast contact, Lucy as I call her for this blogging purpose, was away with family elsewhere and there was obviously no 'bird-watching' outings with my other friend who believes that I am really blind and seems happy to act as my companion and guide.

So it was with some pleasure when husband returned to his work, disappearing for the day up to his London office and I was free at last to return to my normal routine with visits to Chris's office Wednesday afternoon where his secretary always takes the afternoon off and I take her place answering the phone and making the tea, all blindfolded! This is where I am now and where I always deal with this blog first before having my eyes bandaged at around 3 o/clock by my more than willing brother. The other weekly routine is being blindfolded at home on Fridays for my household chores and piano practice. But you've read all this before, of course. That week after the New Year had a different blindfolding experience, which as it is almost 3 o/clock now, I will describe next week.

Jane

Happy Christmas 2014

Thank you, Acro Delajupe, for your reference to the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImXDw_K7IdE

Other readers, do watch this.

A very attractive Spanish girl for a start. Chris and I have just sat for the whole hour in his office watching this. Only wish we could understand Spanish though!!

One (of many possible) comments – I was always worried in the old days that if I wore eye-patches, over both eyes of course, as she does in the video, they would show at the edges if I wore darkened glasses over them – as they do in fact in the video. In her circumstances, it does not matter but with me, out by myself posing as a blind woman, I wouldn't want others to see the patches, thus giving me away as a fraud.

Just a coincidence that I have just recounted the episode where I did wear patches overnight.

We will look at the other video clips Acro Delajupe passed to us, after Christmas now.

No office blindfolded tasks, no blindsimming bird trips and even Lucy has gone away to her family for the Christmas festivities. What am I going to do?!

Just wish you a Happy Christmas then and a Good New Year!

Back to reporting towards the end of January 2015 then,

Best Wishes ,

Jane (and Chris)

10/12/14 My blind 'birding' week-end - concluded.

Continued from last week


Again, revert to our web-site to see the end of our long account  about me blindsimming for 24 hours and even longer.

meblindfolded.wix.com/blindsimming-lady

Back to normal blogging next time,


Jane.

3/12/14 Continued from last week

Further to last weeks blog, continue the long episode by going to our web-site again :-

meblindfolded.wix.com/blindsimming-lady

More next week -Jane

Another of my odd blindfolded desires.

Some years ago, after my maze blindsimming experience afore described, and at a time when I was becoming quite confident in my blindsimming expeditions, I expressed to Chris my odd desire to be blindfolded for a whole day, from when I got up in the morning until I went to bed at night, if not longer. I have explained that I am married (happily, in all other respects) to a man who doesn't even know about my obsession with blindfolding. So it wasn't going to happen – I thought.

But go to our web-site to see what happened :-

meblindfolded.wix.com/blindsimming-lady

However....................... and I will continue on this theme next time!

Help, someone, please

Help, please,someone.

 I would be grateful if one of the ten or so visitors to my blog here would check to see if they can call up our website at meblindfolded.wix.com/blindsimming-lady and let me know if they can access it, either here or at me-blindfolded@ yahoo.co.uk.

 Why do I ask? I can access it through Chris's computer in the office by logging in as the originator, of course, but it doesn't seem to register visitor numbers. I daren't try it on the laptop at home in case it (freezes) crashes? And husband finds it which would cause enormous complications. However it so happens that I was at Lucy's (you will remember by newish friend who likes being blindfolded for an hour or two while I give her piano lessons fortnightly, and I persuaded her to visit my website but we couldn't access it at all.

Just a little concerned at that.

 Grateful for any response then, Jane.

5th November 2014. Holiday incident

A few years ago, husband and I were touring in Bavaria and among the places we visited was Bamburg, a lovely old town on a tributary of the river Maine.

We went into the cathedral and looked round for an hour or so and I spotted, on the side of the tomb of Heinrich II, a sculpted stone panel scene which included a blindfolded woman. Apparently, from the guide book, she was an unfaithful earlier wife undergoing a trial of some sort prior to a deserving punishment if seen to be guilty. I would have liked to take a photo of it to take home and show Chris, but didn't dare to, since husband would certainly have spotted it and wondered why? So regrettably I left it.

Then on the way out, a big surprise. Another blindfolded woman! This time a stone statue on a plinth, one of a pair representing the Christian church and the Jewish synagogue. It was the latter that was represented by a blindfolded woman, she being Jewish, was being unable to see the true way to God. There were even postcards of her for sale, but again I didn't like to buy just that one. Chris says pictures of her can be found quite easily on the internet (look up 'Ecclesia and Synagoga').

He couldn't find anything on the tomb panel but it is briefly described (in German!) , but not pictured, in the guide book to the cathedral which I had kept.

What it did remind Chris of, and which I remembered as well after he mentioned it, was an illustrated series of childrens English history books that we had (and may well be in our loft still) and in the Medieval section was a drawing of such a trial as that on the tomb. It was of a blindfolded girl in what appeared to be an abbey, being made to walk across a stone floor on which were very hot stones straight out of a furnace (all clearly drawn) like the sculptures at Bamberg, I believed, lovingly detailed. At that age, we were fascinated by the drawing and what might have been the outcome.

Needless to sat, Chris was only too willing to describe to me the possible outcomes. But I had better not go into those here.

Jane