On the Road Again!

Reggie and I did our bit last month and earned a piffling £40. Any they thanked us. Thank you for taking part in the Santa Paws: 12 Jogs of Christmas Challenge to raise money to help deaf people to leave loneliness behind and reconnect with life. Over 400 of you took part and together you have raised an incredible £22,000. This will fund the training of more amazing hearing dogs and provide life-changing services for anyone with hearing loss, such as support groups and our helpdesk. You ran a huge variety of distances, some of you in the most amazing costumes – from Santa to penguins, and even a Christmas Turkey! And your dogs looked absolutely amazing in their bandanas! The money you have raised by taking part will directly change deaf people's lives.  

All was going swimmingly well until yesterday.  Another Storm, oddly named Barra,  has arrived from across the Atlantic and this time it hasn't been as bad in the north as Arwen last week. It meant that yesterday we had torrential rain all day and high winds causing damage to property and trees getting felled.  https://news.sky.com/story/storm-barra-rain-snow-and-80mph-winds-forecast-to-batter-uk-amid-danger-to-life-weather-warning-12488486 What it also meant was that after five days of Santa Paws walks with Reggie that he missed out on his walk and we missed out on some valuable exercise. Still. We are alive and just cold.  We should be glad that unlike some of our countrymen and women in the north that we have power and light.  It's freezing cold and windy today, but in my lunch hour from WFH, my plan was to take him out for a little walk in the mud and tree debris across the canal, as long as the rain stayed off. But of course, it hasn't and it is lashing dow...

I signed up for this today.  I am partly deaf in my right ear. I have no midrange hearing and that's where most sound in human life lies! Oddly, when there is a lot of noise, like the musak pumped out on stores and shopping malls, I can easily become disoriented. The problem I have is that the headphones I have all have the "on" button in the right ear unit. I have to have in/on both ears to hear the message that they are connected to my phone.  Okay not a biggie but sitting amongst a group of people is. I simply can't hear what anyone to my right is saying, so I try to sit with as many people to my left as possible! I have a hearing aid. It's rubbish. Does nothing at all. I was expecting a marvel of miniature electronic  engineering that went in my ear and made a difference. Does it buggery. So raising money to help people that are totally deaf and live their entire lives in silence get an assistance dog seems the least I could do. Twelve dog walks in...