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Sight Village 2019

Last week I had a great time at the Sight Village South East event in Kensington Town Hall. It’s an annual exhibition showcasing the latest technology, products and services for blind and visually impaired people, and is one of a few Sight Village events held around the UK by Queen Alexandra College every year.

I’ve attended previously in 2016 & 2017, so having missed last year’s event it felt like a good idea to go back this time. But this occasion was slightly different, because although I did have a little look around, I actually spent most of the day working on one of the stands. So it was very interesting to be on the other side of the desk, as it were, talking to curious visitors rather than being one of them myself. So I just thought I’d give you a quick rundown of the day and who the exhibitors were.

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Fireworks & Frankenstein, Sight Village & Socialising

Time for another little update on what I’ve been doing recently, as I was pretty busy at the beginning of this week, watching a fireworks display, attending another theatre show, going to a disability exhibition, and meeting other people with aniridia.

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Sight Village 2016

Last week I had to go up to London for a couple of days, so I took the opportunity to spend a long afternoon exploring Sight Village, an exhibition showcasing products, services and organisations for visually impaired people. Their main show each year is in Birmingham, but they also have roadshows in Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow and, in this case, London. So I thought I’d do a write-up bout my visit. Which, fair warning, is quite long! But I’ve added headings throughout to split it up, in case you want to jump to any part in particular. So I hope you find it interesting. 🙂

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Journal – June 2005

February 2021 Introduction:

This is a very busy month to look back at. At the end of May I’d been invited to spend a week with a couple of friends of mine in Exeter, while I was taking a bit of well-earned holiday from work. So that’s where we start off here, and there’s lots to mention about the various ways we enjoyed ourselves. I’ve anonymised my friend’s names and edited out other little details to respect their privacy of course. Then there’s the usual mix of job updates, entertainment and other bits and bobs as well. So I hope you enjoy looking through it all!

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School Journal – Snowdonia Trip – May 1998

2020 Introduction:

Welcome to the first of the historical posts on my site. I actually started writing this blog in February 2016, if you’re looking for the first posts I made here.

However, during the first Covid lockdown in 2020 I started digging out old journals from my past and adding them to my blog as well, most of which I’ve never shared online before. Hence for each post between 1998 and 2015 you’ll see an introduction from several years later.

So this first post goes all the way back to when I was 14 years old, and I went with my classmates (all of us visually impaired) on a field trip to Snowdonia in North Wales. We had a fabulous time, and it would be lovely to go back one day.

Fortunately, our teachers put together a diary of the trip that we were all given a copy of, and many years later I scanned it into my computer for posterity, using OCR software to help me convert it into text. So here is that diary, along with a few of the photos I took at the time. I hope you enjoy!

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