The 18th January saw the launch of my autobiography, Blind Ambition on disc for the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Book Library. The launch was held in Cookstown Library and attended by many of the Book Club members. My sincerest thanks to the Belfast Ladies Club whose tireless fund raising for the RNIB, provided the funds to produce the book in Daisy format for blind readers.
Very many thanks also must go to Eamonn Holmes, who not only wrote the Foreword, but, very kindly agreed to read it onto disc.
I got the easy bit, I simply read the Acknowledgements and Epilogue sections, but, it was the RNIB volunteer reader, Ciara Chambers who expertly read the bulk of the book! Ciara also very kindly came along to the launch and read out small extracts and chatted with myself to wet the appetite of the Book Club members. My sincere appreciation to Ciara for all her hard work.
It was a lovely event and I am delighted that my book is now available for blind people to enjoy. I hope it will encourage and inspire anyone going through tough times with sight loss.
The 19th January however, was a totally different ball game!
I went back into hospital for another lengthy round of re-constructive surgery
and am now at home recovering and looking forward to getting back into routine and training in the near future.
