Something different to share!

Ive been away for a while in the New Forest, Hampshire - been enjoying the countryside and getting plenty of rest. Its lovely down there you cant beat the tranquility and peace ! I live in a city so its nice to get away from it all.

My tinnitus is becoming easier to manage - its still there but toning down and although i am still wobbly at  times i do feel so weak - but I'm beginning to get my strength back.

Ive been going through some of my old things and wanted to share with you a story abt me in my younger years! Ive always enjoyed helping people but when i was attending my local primary/infants school there was a burglary and i wrote to my local newspaper :

They never caught the villains - but we were able to purchase new equipment 

sadly the quality of article is abt 27 years old and not very clear so please see below for the words:

LISA'S HEARTBREAK PLEA

Aged 8

Dear auntie Philomena, I am one of your chipsters and I am hoping you will find room in your newspaper to print my letter. I am also deaf and attend penhale school I am very upset because some robbers broke into my school and stole our deaf equipment. My deaf friends and I find it hard to hear and now we will find it harder.  Please print this little letter in the hope we can appeal too their consciences and most important there ears, because no doubt the can hear or they would of been caught. 

I wonder if  they realise what it will mean to all of us deaf children. Please ask the robbers to return our equipment we need it they don't

Yours sincerely

Lisa Bailey

VILLAINS WREAK LESSONS FOR DEAF

There is a story of tough spirit and determination behind this desperately sad and innocent letter of appeal from a Portsmouth deaf girl whose school was hit by burglars. It was just another computer just a few more headphones to the villains. To the deaf children of Penhale School Hearing Impaired Unit, Fratton  the specialist equipment gave them a better life. Lisa Bailey probably cannot understand why anyone would pick on her and her friends. 'Please ask the robbers to return our equipment we need it they dont' she wrote.

DEPENDANT

Lisa is a tough-spirited little girl who has fought triumphantly against the disability of deafness and she is not completely dependant on the equipment as some of her friends. But that didn't stop her writing for them as much for herself, trying to touch the consciences of the burglars. Life is hard for deaf children 'now we will find it harder' says eight year old Lisa. Head of hearing impaired unit Mr John Clarke knows that plans are well established to replace some of the stolen equipment - but it will take time. We have been given the go ahead by the educational authority to order new equipment to replace that stolen. Hopefully it may arrive for the new term which begins in September. There is no hope of it arriving this time before we break up at the end of July. So the deaf children will be without there valuable aids before then. The burglars stole our computer discs on which we had recorded many hours of work especially for the children. These took years to make and are invaluable to us. 'I don't hold out many hopes that the programme for the children on the discs will still be intact. All the work will be lost' he said.

'I would like to express our gratitude to the people who have made donations to replace the equipment since they read about what happened to us in the news' Until the new equipment arrives the children at the unit will struggle that much more in there day-to-day schooling... unless Lisa's plea reaches the right ears, and brings the right response.