I may be getting a bit oversensitive or perhaps a little punch drunk from the constant onslaught of the PC brigade, but somehow life seems to be getting more complicated. Many folk, well-intentioned though they are, seem to wage war on the concept of 'simple', which I, and I'm sure a great many other Blindies, find serves our daily doings pretty well.
I've previously covered the digital stuff, but since things are trotting along age-wise, perhaps it’s time for a more personal insight about what this means to me.
I now believe I've reached that pivotal stage in life where experience and wisdom combine to provide near-perfect clarity of thought, aided of course by the odd drop of single malt. Starting at the top, politicians and optics gurus would have it that I'm disabled, visually impaired or suffering from sight loss. Come on! Guys – a simple 'blind' should cover all three! But then I suppose you'd want to discuss how 'low', low vision needs to be to be considered 'low' and, bingo!, here we go again. My problem is that I'm reasonably keen to play the jargon game but when I join in, the buggers keep shifting the goalposts and I can’t keep up.
Old dog, new tricks?
Feeling that perhaps outside input and self-assessment might even things up a bit, I surfed a few podcasts. I'm not a fan of such things normally and the ones I struck were mainly chirpy folk anxious to pass on the secret of contentment, or latter-day prophets peddling their brand of Solomonic wisdom, most of which offered diversions rather than insight.
