Just carrying on from yesterdays post explaining a bit about myself. Well I had completed my secondary schooling before I went deaf. Now why do I keep repeating that I am deaf? Because it has important manifestations about what I'm trying to do here. At school one of my courses was English Literature and each term one was given a set book to read whether you liked it or not. Mostly not, as they chose great classics, which essentially I found boring. However, to pass your term one was compelled t

I am a fifty seven year old man who has led a long and varied life. At the tender age of eighteen whilst doing National Service, I got some cuts and scrapes. The long and short of all this, is that, I lost all my hearing. What is known as profoundly deaf. I learnt to lip read and went to Agricultural College, where I passed my diploma despite being the only deaf person there. Very shortly after this I lost my country and went to live in South Africa where I managed to own my own farm. It was whi