by julie | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Good morning blind wisdom seekers Who remembers the sound of dial up? My nephew certainly does, as do I! When I went blind in 1997 the internet was only arriving to the average household in New Zealand. I had, however, worked on computers in the 80’s so now that I...
by julie | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Oops – I did the dreaded control enter, which in blind language is send! All without adding the recipe I was talking about in the last post! So, with apologies and love, here’s the recipe I baked at the weekend! This recipe made enough for me to drop sufficient...
by julie | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
10 things I have smelt, heard, tasted and touched in the last week: 1 the feel of thawed flaky pastry as I placed it in a baking tin at the weekend! The photo is for an upcoming recipe in the Blind Foundation’s Outlook magazine! Look out for it real soon! 2 the sound...
by julie | May 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Here are 10 things my senses are grateful for this week! 1 the sound of the OARsome morning show music playing yesterday morning as Ron and I got ready to host the show for Jeff! Scary! Also the sound of our guest Pat Macaulay talking about our recent Rail Trail...
by julie | May 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
After making my truffles at an event in Middlemarch last week, I was in the Kissing gate café the next morning with one of the event organisers Joan Wilson. Sitting at a table nearby was Liz, the local school bus driver, who had attended the event I had spoken at the...
by julie | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I said WHY NOT to going down the hydro slide here in Dunedin. I went with my walking buddy and friend Jo on Sunday afternoon. It’s pretty full on and when I was wwalking up to the top of the slide I thought “what the hell am I doing?” “What happens if I break...
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