Falling in love
I'm forever getting things wrong with lip-reading, though if I don't do it, I can't work out what someone is saying. I once had to go to The Foreign Office and the receptionist said she found my...
View ArticleI'm with child
When a work colleague said’ “I’m with child!”, I was stunned but delighted for them and reacted with enthusiasm. I then saw everyone looking at me really oddly and realised I’d got things wrong. What...
View ArticleCappuccino please
I went into a coffee shop with a friend. The noise made it difficult for me to hear so I had to rely on lipreading. My friend asked something which I guessed to be, ‘What would you like?’ I said,...
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Went to see my doctor and told her I wasn't feeling well she asked to describe the symptoms so I said homer likes beer and has a big belly and marge has blue hair :)
View ArticleFour Walls
I go to a keep fit class and one of the instructions given is 'Walk Forward' and another is 'Walk to the Four Walls' as you can imagine, everyone is walking forward and I walk to the 'Four Walls....
View ArticleHumpty Dumpty
I’m a lipreading tutor and during classes we get many confusions. Most are ones I expect - confusions with colours, numbers etc. But sometimes something comes up I'm not expecting …I was doing a lesson...
View ArticleJames Bond
I think this was at Betty Hartley's lipreading group in Darwen. We saw 'James Bond', she actually said 'chamber pot'.
View ArticleEating out!
I have moderate to severe hearing loss so mis-hearing is an everyday occurrence but I was horrified when my husband told me a local restaurant had a cockroach! In fact what he said was that they had a...
View ArticleLearning to lipread has turned my life around
I started with days of the week, numbers and colours. Now I’m progressing on to other words. I’ve been taught to use the same list of words for a few days and then make another with a different theme....
View ArticleConversation Hiccups in one evening....
Every now and then I make an effort to socialise, and it is a big effort. I used to look forward to meeting new people but, like many who have gradually lost their hearing, this has become more and...
View ArticleNew shoes
I had arranged to meet a friend who also has a hearing problem for coffee. We decided to meet in a local coffee shop that we had not met up in before. I arrived to find my friend standing in the...
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