by Vanessa Potter | Apr 15, 2014 | Blindness
What is luck? No, really – what is luck? I can’t help but feel it is two sides of a rusty old coin, but it’s more that that of course; it’s a force. It’s something that takes you over and has power over you. It’s uncontrollable. It’s a bad thing for us control freaks;...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 31, 2014 | Blindness
The features of modern technology recently allowed me to eavesdrop a valuable and insightful conversation between my little one, and his four year old cousin as they walked hand in hand through a National Trust forest.They pragmatically and succinctly discussed...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 29, 2014 | Blindness
It’s not quite a full ‘banshee’ morning but it’s not far off. My voice has been raised for at least the last 20 minutes as my unresponsive children are systematically ignoring me. Shouting is having little impact; but the reflex is too strong to resist...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 18, 2014 | Blindness
I recall a sunny day in 1979, so bright and luminous it literally hurt my eyes. We’d ventured out as a family to a local farm for what looked like an impromptu summer fair. Several fathers were lobbing wellies as far as their soft stomachs would allow them, flexing...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 13, 2014 | Blindness
The taxi curves around a walled courtyard and I hear the tyres crunch on expensive gravel beneath us. A modern glass frontage titivates a nineteenth century house; typical of many boutique hotels I’ve seen before. Mum and I attempt to extract ourselves from the back...
by Vanessa Potter | Feb 28, 2014 | Blindness
The evening entertainment is a bawdy affair. Swarms of sweaty children weave in and out of chairs and tables whilst bored parents sit torpidly nursing glasses of tart local wine. Nobody knows about me: Mrs NMO. We have only engaged with a few families, smiling...
