![]() Thank you, Tricia, for publishing and for your reply. ‘ Have you actually heard a word I just said?’īut 80 is only a number and as long as you can see the comedy and keep looking your best, there’s a lot of happiness still to be had. ![]() A nod, however solemn, can be met with looks of shock and incomprehension. I nod solemnly (and sagely, I hope) when I haven’t quite caught the drift, as though listening intently and in deep accord. I could resort to hearing aids too, but for my vanity and stubbornness. They come with an ingenious cordless-phone type charger, a great step up from those tiny batteries that he was always dropping and scrabbling about on creaky knees, trying to spot. The new ones are near invisible and brilliant – when he remembers to wear them and have them charged up. My husband is onto his second pair of hearing aids. ‘ Just fixing this mini mike,’ he said, ‘it talks to my hearing aid.’ Sitting on the right of my host at a pre-covid dinner party, I was rather taken-aback when he leaned forward and fiddled with my decollate. Not that we are alone in the deafness stakes. He (cracking up): ‘ No, it’s some chap telling his elderly father not to fast.’ Me, half-listening to the radio: ‘ Are they telling us how to make masks?’ ‘ Yes, those smart moth things you got last year, they worked quite well before.’ He, absently: ‘ But they collect a lot of dead bodies.’ Me: ‘ I’ve decided against getting one of those new smart mop things they’ve been advertising on tele…’ Deafness is another area of hot competition whose is worse? Forget the miss-speaks of Hillary Clinton infamy, miss-hears are an hourly occurrence in our house. ![]()
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