This weekend I went to the Isle of Wight for the Blind National Championship organised by Blind Sailing UK. Friday morning, I ran around my house packing everything I needed from toiletries to dinghy boots in my purple rucksack to take with me. I was ready by 10 which...

On Wednesday 5 September two members of Southampton Sight along with Kate, Jackie and Angela visited Penny Melville-Brown at her home to take part in her Baking Blind series (www.bakingblind.com). Penny was one of the successful winners of the Holman Prize in 2017,...

This week has been a quiet week so far at work; with my support worker on holiday I am unable to leave the office without the support of other colleagues.  I have seen a service user in the centre for a touch-typing session and I worked with two of my colleagues on...

I can’t remember if I have written this before, but in September I am going back to college to do an apprenticeship in customer service. Yesterday I started to learn how to get to Southampton City College. When you are completely blind like I am, you may find...

Is it really July already? Soon we’ll blink and it’ll be next year. Yesterday Angela and I went to an information and equipment day in Totton organised by Open Sight the local society for VI people who cover Hampshire. First, getting in to the building was a...

I haven’t blogged for a while so I thought I’d write one about my most recent adventure to Andover with two colleagues.  We went on a two-day staff outing! Mandy, Angela and I all met at work last Wednesday to begin our two-day training course.  We visited the head...

The first week of the second round of Cooking with confidence the group used a very simple shortbread recipe; I thought I’d have a go and decided to make some for my partners mothers birthday. All I needed was 125G plain flour, 100G butter and 50G of sugar. I made the...

I may have mentioned before that I am part of the Winchester Goalball club. To understand what Goalball is go to Goalball UK’s website:  www.goalballuk.com

I won the appeal, yippee! Specialist database training here I come.
Re: Why is access to work such a complicated and sole destroying process? posted 22/11/2017

Recently, medical professionals from Southampton University came to visit Southampton Sight  as part of their continuous professional development. They attended training focused on what it is like to live with sight loss.  Along with four other people with varying levels of sight loss, I was asked to speak about what it was like when I recently attended my ophthalmology appointment on my own for the first time.