by Vanessa Potter | May 4, 2017 | Blindness, family, children, reading, literacy, books
‘You could have a great barbie out there,’ my brother yawns as he pulls up the window blind, letting the early-morning sunshine stream in. He stretches noisily and I hear comic squelches as he attempts to extricate his sleep-crumpled body from the marshmallow chair....
by Vanessa Potter | Jun 30, 2014 | Blindness
So, it was rude of me to leave you dangling, so let me introduce you to Talking to Lampposts properly.What is it? Well, I keep calling it an exhibition; but it is so much more than that; it’s an experience, an affecting encounter. You can’t just breeze through this...
by Vanessa Potter | Jun 19, 2014 | Blindness
I’m not sure if I had any idea of the world around me, not really; and I am talking literally here. I have been missing out on a secret garden, a whole series of scenes and stories. Amazingly this fringe world has been playing out in my peripheral vision without...
by Vanessa Potter | May 22, 2014 | Blindness
My new lower prescription specs arrived in the post and got their first outing at Croydon University hospital. The intention is for my eyes to level out a little and to reduce the dominance of my right eye. It is also to restrict my constant habit of trying to focus...
by Vanessa Potter | May 21, 2014 | Blindness
I have been given 15 minutes in which to do my thinking.I now have to condense and abridge my musings into this restricted time slot. My eye health is part of my vision therapy programme, and like the smoker trying to quit, I too have to curtail my habit.I also have...
