Cliff's latest blog posts

More White Sticks than I’ve seen in years At Shoreham Centre on 27 Feb 2024 A very popular event for the blind and partially sighted. We were talking to “The Supermarkets” but the most exciting speaker was from Proctor and Gamble. They have two life-changing innovations: Adding a surface pattern...

So I asked my AI Assistant, Gemini What would you include under “Classical music FUN” That’s a great question! The answer really depends on what you find “fun” in music. To help guide you, here are a few different approaches to finding fun in classical music: Upbeat and Energetic Pieces:...

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...