Cliff's latest blog posts

Eight years since I updated this. I suppose it was due to learning how to cope with sight loss and then there was Covid, but we are still here, nearly twenty  years on! Recently we started a U3a Group called “Grow your own, for flavour” So the objective is flavour...

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We, sight-impaired people, cannot see a smile, or a wave of the hand, or “catch someone’s eye”, we cannot recognise a person’s face...

A practical plan. Written (and typed) by Cliff Jenkins. Published December 2018. Based on his experiences during the nine year...

EPSTENNIS< the benefits, the rules, and players' comments. Come and join us...

The role of being a carer is difficult. They can be over-protective, over-careful whereas they just need to be supportive. They want to help so much and are distraught at seeing the trouble their loved one is having. They rush to do it for them...

Absolutely wonderful, the pavements have been cleared of hedges and brambles sprawling across them. It means it is much easier for vision impaired people as well...

A full-on day hunting the Martlet Hospice`s sensational snails, with the help of two grand-children...

This is a terrifying example of what can happen. I was appalled and I mean absolutely appalled, by this lady`s experiences, after just five years, though you can get  to the severe state in just two years. Personally I have survived for eight years so far and I an still...

The “Eyeopener” is a booklet created by the Shoreham AMD Group. They have brought together the experiences after losing their sight so as to create a comfortable Eyeopener on their new world...