6 February
For some
time now my eyes have been causing me some worry. They were extremely blood
shot and then late last year I noticed the pigment in my pupils was being a
light greyish shade. Last night I needed a wee and as I washed my hands after,
I looked in the mirror and was surprised to see that my eyes were not as blood
shot as they used to be. Not only that, the loss of pigment seems to have
reduced too. Of course I’m not complaining about it at all. I’m just pleased to
see a positive change.
There are
lot of moans about the level of the retirement pension these days. This morning
I had two letters from DWP about my pension credit and my normal pension. I
wish I could understand it properly at times you know. I’m not going to mention
total amounts other than to say that we are on a much lower rate than the
current benefit maximum, but we can live very comfortably on what we get right
now. However, if we had to pay rent and council tax out of it, it would an
entirely different story. Our rent and council tax would leave us with around
£40 for the week. As it is though, if others are on the same or similar amount
to us, then I don’t understand why they can’t live on it.
One of the
Facebook groups I follow is called Reading Addicts, and it’s a pretty good read
on its own. Every so often they ask questions like, ‘What book would give a
non-reading to try to spark their own reading addiction?’ Top of the list was
the Parry Hotter series of course. I can understand that really; they are fairly
easy reads, even the later ones. But some followers put Lord of the Rings on top. Oh dear … Two nights ago I started
reading The Twin Towers and I’m finding it as hard going as the first
one, Fellowship of the Ring. I read
all of 25 pages in two hours last before I settled. I would normally manage
that one hour. So why is it so hard I wonder?
Dyslexia may be behind a lot of it. For some people the size of the font could be a problem.
Other have problems with the type of font. The colour of the font and the
colour of the page causes problems too. Perhaps it is dyslexia that so many
people don’t read in the first place. I attended a dyslexia awareness day in
the OU regional centre at Harbourne, Birmingham one day, and a very interesting
day it was too. It has been calculated that up to 20% of the UK population are dyslexic,
a figure that goes up to 80% for the prison population. There doesn’t seem to
be a problem as to male or females who have the disorder either.
The thing
is though, no matter what book you might give someone to try to encourage them,
the chances are that it won’t work for dyslexics with a book straight of the
shelves. After a number of tests I found that a pair of reading specs with a
mid-yellow tint helped me to read a lot better. Sadly I couldn’t afford to go
back on a regular basis to that option for new specs when I needed them. I
later found out that when I printed something for proof reading, a chocolate
brown size 12 font of cream paper was better for me than plain black on white.
Do you see what I mean?
And now to
find a photo …
A fire hydrant in Mallorca, see, I'll shoot anything.
Today’s
funny is a short one, a bumper sticker …
I SOUPORT PUBLIK EDEKASION.
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