Live Remote Captioning This service, which is new to the UK, enables deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people to participate in live meetings and seminars,...
Hello Becky, Welcome to Hard of Hearing UK and apologies for the late reply, as I no longer check the messages daily in here. I understand what you're going...
Hi my name is chris and i am a 45 yr old HOH man. I'm fairly new to computing but am enjoying what i have seen so far. I come from a large family of hereditary...
Hi Chris, Welcome to this group and thanks for introducing yourself. The group is much quieter than it was in its earlier years (it's 9 years old now and it...
... "My hearing has deteriorated a lot the past 2 years and I now find it difficult to enjoy music or to enjoy playing guitar (it sounds very flat and out of...
... hi saffron Do you wear digital aids now? Because i got the digis and i loved them. So much better for conversations and background noise, but cr@p for...
Hi Chris, Yes, I've had digis for 6 years now. It took a while to find some that I got on well with. My first digis were Danalogic ones that were good straight...
hi saffron It's a real shame that your hearing is deteriarating. I know that i have noticed mine getting a little worse over the years and it's a woorrying...
Hi there Saffy! I haven't seen you since before you became a mummy! Hope you are enjoying it. Both of my daughters have children now, they are always in a...
i bought myself a recorder on E-Bay to try out buying online and to see if it would help me cut down smoking.I thought instead of lighting up a fag, i could...
Hello Thanks for all your advice! It's so much appreciated. I tried the health visitor and she said "Well... no-ones ever asked me that before? Don't you have...
Come back any time you need! Definitely, you need social service to provide you with all the assistive devices like baby alarm, door and accessible telephone,...
Dont give in Becks! I have found that we are all incredibly ignorant about deafness. Even us deaf folk have a lot to learn. So its hard for the hearing to...
Becks, Thanks for your reply and appreciation. You're very welcome and please, ask away if you have any more questions! Also, I'd love to keep in touch anyway,...
Hi Chris, I just asked hubby (who has several guitars) and he said he has a pick up we can use on our guitars (mine is a classical guitar, his an acoustic...
Hi Andy, Gosh, yes, it's been a while! Indeed, life changes so much when we have little ones, but also, I've made quite a lot of local friends with children of...
... It made me laugh when I read that Chris, lol... because the other day, I was playing guitar for my son and he said "mummy, stooooop!". I asked him, "oh,...
... i don't want to be accused of advertising, but i went to LIDL yesterday for a nose and they are selling a pair of bongo drums for 15 quid. I was really...
Strangely I have a collection of instruments too. I have never been any good at guitars. When my friends were all trying to play guitars I was only interested...
My eldest has two now, Evie who is two and Zac who was born in January. My other daughter had Lily two years ago as well, so Lily and Evie are practically...
I'm enjoying this thread! Thanks for the info about cochlear implants and how they are tuned. With all the positive things I've been reading about CI's, I no...
Hi all, You can now see The Fingerspellers episodes 6 and 7 on YouTube! These ones see the rival families getting into a fingerspelling shootout!! Just go to...
My partner of 14 years has recently called it a day and without any notice, moved out of our shared flat last month when I was out at work. There was...
Michael, So sorry to hear this and can imagine your devastation. We can" listen" to you any time. I have a messenger account Cherry_Cullen@... that I...
Thanks for chatting with me and telling me about your musical sides, been really interesting sharing my hobby. i have never played to anyone apart from when i...
Dear Michael, I will try to post a better reply in the next couple of days, but just wanted to say for now, really sorry to hear that your partner left you...
Michael This is the first time that I have emailed the group, but wanted to say how sorry I was to hear of your break up after such a long period, and your...
