mmm its august 11th - thursday
i finally felt almost better from chest infection today.
simple chores at home day today.
did two lots of washing out on line - still there tonight - hoping it will be dry tomorrow at midday.
cleared out garden's firepit and filled with paper trash and topped with prunings bits of tree branches and flax. tried to start fire three times and gave up. will try again tomorrow.
my chooks laid in the dry soil by the back fence enjoying the sun today.
cat caught a bird and ate it leaving feathers scattered nearby while she slept in te sun lying on the bark.
found the old rusted metal ex-fireplace today in the long grass among the dead branches of trees in the corner of empty section next door... and i asked enighbour Ian to roll it for me - expecting him to do that tomorrow or whenever he feels like it but to my delight he did it today. i will use it as a seat or where i can put garden rubbish on away from the wet ground.
took sam for a walk after taking a long piece of corrugated iron that was really mine - with Ian's help - i intend to use it for the back of the "baby's run" where i hatch baby chicks every spring i hope... . sam had a run around in the empty section next door but stayed near by and he came immediately when i clapped my hands (calling him) - pretty pleased with him.
tom went to westgate to bank his cheque he received for teaching... and bought himself a padded shirt for $30 just what i needed - i might go and get one for myself soon either tomorrow or friday. i had been looking for a padded shirt for two years!!!
I laid many sheets of newspapers all over the wet part of the chickens' run - to absorb all the moisture there... i finially fed chooks twice today - tom had been feeding them while i was sick. Very good of him - last few days i had been feeding chooks every afternoon.
did some jig puzzles using msn with caysa tonight - i often chat with anna and caysa every day - late afternoon.
chores to be done this week or asap . . . - written a list - 1) pot those flowers 2) finsih "netting" the chooks run 3) fix chooks' run's ground. 4) make compost bin. 5) weed glasshouse and old chook's run 6) put a piece of wood down in one corner of coop and place a perch in that corner... 7) burn garden rubbish 8) bottle wormtea 9) do the prunings 10)plant what i have to plant . . .
i have been reading a book "Some Sunny Day" by Dame Vera Lynn - fantastic and honest reading.
gotta go to bed 12.10am
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
how dare they . . . ? the hearing people think they can make descisions for our education? either at the milan conference in 1893? or hundred years later? or even now?
in my school days i could have learnt much more... true the dept of education sent dedicated teachers but i believe they were taught wrong! they taught us to lipread and talk - not using our sign language as a basis for our education.
many children at deaf schools wasted alot of time trying to talk when they could have learnt more stuff... yet some teachers think we are not very clever...
dept of education have lots of responsibilities but they dont know fully about our needs - no not the hearing teachers... please do listen to teachers of the Deaf children who are deaf themselves who have empathy with deaf children and vice versa.
parents of Deaf children have won the fight to have their deaf children educated near or close to their homes - but are they getting the needed education? do they have the company of deaf peers/friends? i have often wondered which was really the best... i hated being a boarder at school for deaf ... but loved the school classrooms yet i didnt get enough education.
if i had stayed at home and go to a school nearby - would i mix with other children? i dont think so.... many deaf children are being main-streamed... i have no idea at all how they are coping... what am i doing here then?
i am saddened to see the deaf schools not being fully used as they used to be... maybe they say times are changing? should we let those schools go when they had had been raised and fought for to be built in the first place? the villages idea in the the van asch and kelston is really a very good idea creating home like surroundings...
yet we need to listen to see what those children thought ... who went thru this villages phase?
maybe i sound so simple - out of date - yet i would love to read a thesis written by eileen smith the former principal of kelston deaf education centre (from 1988? till 1996?) who gained M.A degree? eileen smith uses and fully understands our sign language as her second language but very skillfully.
i would love to listen to the deaf people who went thru this system and those who worked there too.
there is alot of history where our NZ sign language is concerned but is there a book written on this? true there is a history of old sign language and a dictionary of NZ sign language has been printed with many of the Deaf people involved in both.
this is off the cuff - un-researched - just what i know or remembered....
today my two old friend came to see if i am coming to do food shopping at waimauku today - after a cuppa or juice we went to the cafe there. one had sausage roll - one had eggy quiche i think with a bit of green salad and i had a spiced tomato soup - being lunch time then. we yakked in sign language for couple of hours. i did the food shopping after hugging them as she has to go and pick up her hubby after dropping the other off.
when i got home - halfway thru putting groceries away barbara our neighbour came round and tried her vodafone plug-in stick to see if i could get broadband and it didnt work. when she went i fed the chooks as soon as i can since the air was getting very cold - not good for my chest infection!
i am in despair as the backyard is a mess after all the wet weather and my chest infection. hopefully it will be fine and dry tomorrow so i can burn off some branches tom said he will cut into pieces tomorrow morning. weeds yet to be pulled in veg gardens and maybe hoed into ridges to dry off - so wet and soggy there. chooks having eated all the cox lettuce and silver beet i plent there...
gotta go to bed its now 12.42 am. nite nite
in my school days i could have learnt much more... true the dept of education sent dedicated teachers but i believe they were taught wrong! they taught us to lipread and talk - not using our sign language as a basis for our education.
many children at deaf schools wasted alot of time trying to talk when they could have learnt more stuff... yet some teachers think we are not very clever...
dept of education have lots of responsibilities but they dont know fully about our needs - no not the hearing teachers... please do listen to teachers of the Deaf children who are deaf themselves who have empathy with deaf children and vice versa.
parents of Deaf children have won the fight to have their deaf children educated near or close to their homes - but are they getting the needed education? do they have the company of deaf peers/friends? i have often wondered which was really the best... i hated being a boarder at school for deaf ... but loved the school classrooms yet i didnt get enough education.
if i had stayed at home and go to a school nearby - would i mix with other children? i dont think so.... many deaf children are being main-streamed... i have no idea at all how they are coping... what am i doing here then?
i am saddened to see the deaf schools not being fully used as they used to be... maybe they say times are changing? should we let those schools go when they had had been raised and fought for to be built in the first place? the villages idea in the the van asch and kelston is really a very good idea creating home like surroundings...
yet we need to listen to see what those children thought ... who went thru this villages phase?
maybe i sound so simple - out of date - yet i would love to read a thesis written by eileen smith the former principal of kelston deaf education centre (from 1988? till 1996?) who gained M.A degree? eileen smith uses and fully understands our sign language as her second language but very skillfully.
i would love to listen to the deaf people who went thru this system and those who worked there too.
there is alot of history where our NZ sign language is concerned but is there a book written on this? true there is a history of old sign language and a dictionary of NZ sign language has been printed with many of the Deaf people involved in both.
this is off the cuff - un-researched - just what i know or remembered....
today my two old friend came to see if i am coming to do food shopping at waimauku today - after a cuppa or juice we went to the cafe there. one had sausage roll - one had eggy quiche i think with a bit of green salad and i had a spiced tomato soup - being lunch time then. we yakked in sign language for couple of hours. i did the food shopping after hugging them as she has to go and pick up her hubby after dropping the other off.
when i got home - halfway thru putting groceries away barbara our neighbour came round and tried her vodafone plug-in stick to see if i could get broadband and it didnt work. when she went i fed the chooks as soon as i can since the air was getting very cold - not good for my chest infection!
i am in despair as the backyard is a mess after all the wet weather and my chest infection. hopefully it will be fine and dry tomorrow so i can burn off some branches tom said he will cut into pieces tomorrow morning. weeds yet to be pulled in veg gardens and maybe hoed into ridges to dry off - so wet and soggy there. chooks having eated all the cox lettuce and silver beet i plent there...
gotta go to bed its now 12.42 am. nite nite
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
poem i found in my pile of paper collection in our garage
Words, words everywhere
but not a word is heard . . .
Again and again I pleaded
but not a word is heeded . . .
Words, words everywhere
but not a word is learnt
Again and again I asked . . .
to satisfy our hunger
to let subtitles flow . . .
filling our minds aglow
a picturesque school
of life galore . . .
copyright . . . Patreena Bryan 1998
Monday, July 19, 2010
http://nzcaptions.wordpress.com/
Dear Mr Tony O'Brien
I read above link and i am exhausted to read all the efforts - data and facts. what for?
I am Deaf.
Why all this?
I feel the same as so many thousands of Deaf people - Deaf children and students - hearing-impaired by accidents, age and diseases - children with learning disabilities and autistic children - foreigners learning to read english - people who chose to turn sound off to let others sleep. Maybe those with noisy machines would benefit watching tv with words too. Tv sets could be left on in the shop window using captions?
Frustrated. Annoyed. Very very tired of this endless lobbying that need not happen at all.
Why?
We pay taxes - GST - worked and saved for our home car and stuff.
Why didnt we get respect and dignity to be able to follow programmes - to learn (education) - to enjoy (pleasure) - to participate (to live).
It is our "Human Rights" being denied to us - not listening to us - not thinking we are capable of reading and to understand a word?. We are as educated as you are.
Why deny us the right to use the "ramp" to all tv programmes.
Why ask us what we wanted?
Would you turn the tv on without sound?
I am very very disappointed - we fought for our right to have subtitles back in 1970's ( the word first used) for 25 plus? years. Yes unbelivably cheeky of tvnz not recognising our needs. we have been explained to - "passed the buck" so many many times - trying to fool us . . . in trying to get those rightful precious words. We have told you so many times why we need those words - subtitles and captions. Are you deaf to our pleas??????
OMG. . . $88.1 million PROFIT AFTER TAX last year!!!! Need i say more?
I am so sad... i am seventy-one years old - when will i ever see our Deaf people stop lobbying? They do not need to but for your ignorance - excuses - blatant cheek not bothering to recognise our vital visual need.
I pray that your tv sound system will one day fail to make you hear?
thanks for listening to an irate and sad old lady.
patreena bryan
I read above link and i am exhausted to read all the efforts - data and facts. what for?
I am Deaf.
Why all this?
I feel the same as so many thousands of Deaf people - Deaf children and students - hearing-impaired by accidents, age and diseases - children with learning disabilities and autistic children - foreigners learning to read english - people who chose to turn sound off to let others sleep. Maybe those with noisy machines would benefit watching tv with words too. Tv sets could be left on in the shop window using captions?
Frustrated. Annoyed. Very very tired of this endless lobbying that need not happen at all.
Why?
We pay taxes - GST - worked and saved for our home car and stuff.
Why didnt we get respect and dignity to be able to follow programmes - to learn (education) - to enjoy (pleasure) - to participate (to live).
It is our "Human Rights" being denied to us - not listening to us - not thinking we are capable of reading and to understand a word?. We are as educated as you are.
Why deny us the right to use the "ramp" to all tv programmes.
Why ask us what we wanted?
Would you turn the tv on without sound?
I am very very disappointed - we fought for our right to have subtitles back in 1970's ( the word first used) for 25 plus? years. Yes unbelivably cheeky of tvnz not recognising our needs. we have been explained to - "passed the buck" so many many times - trying to fool us . . . in trying to get those rightful precious words. We have told you so many times why we need those words - subtitles and captions. Are you deaf to our pleas??????
OMG. . . $88.1 million PROFIT AFTER TAX last year!!!! Need i say more?
I am so sad... i am seventy-one years old - when will i ever see our Deaf people stop lobbying? They do not need to but for your ignorance - excuses - blatant cheek not bothering to recognise our vital visual need.
I pray that your tv sound system will one day fail to make you hear?
thanks for listening to an irate and sad old lady.
patreena bryan
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
wednesday 14th 2010
My first post.
Beautiful sunny day - blue skies everywhere - warm in sun but cold in the shade.
I placed my 18 year old chook into her sunny sheltered corner before i go and show Owen my son those two huge broken branches - they had fallen onto other branches.
Owen climbed up and shook them free - bit difficult as one was stuck but he managed ok.
While Owen went to look at our double garage - i feed my 24 plumply feathered hens and cleaned coop. Putting dirty chooks' papers into the garden fire heap to be lit later. Dumped kitchen waste into compost and covered with chooks manure.
Owen took off in a hurry after opening letter from his bank... person's cheque has bounced who was supposed to pay him for gibstopping work.
After my cuppa coffee i took Sam my foxterrier/papallion cross dog for a walk thru the empty paddock next door and on to Oaia road and back.
After lunch i cut those broken branches into pieces to be burnt. Tom my hubby helped me to carry and propped large pieces inside the chooks run. I raked leaves up from the lawn and dumped them into compost which now full.
Took pics of patio area where we had removed that leaning ivy tower - it was put there to cover that dome thingy to the sewer tank there. i covered it casually with a huge shell.
Picked lovely huge camellia flowers and placed them into narrow 'cylinder' glass vase. Gotta take paics of that - no one would believe how big they are!
Now let me see how this looks here in my blog...
Beautiful sunny day - blue skies everywhere - warm in sun but cold in the shade.
I placed my 18 year old chook into her sunny sheltered corner before i go and show Owen my son those two huge broken branches - they had fallen onto other branches.
Owen climbed up and shook them free - bit difficult as one was stuck but he managed ok.
While Owen went to look at our double garage - i feed my 24 plumply feathered hens and cleaned coop. Putting dirty chooks' papers into the garden fire heap to be lit later. Dumped kitchen waste into compost and covered with chooks manure.
Owen took off in a hurry after opening letter from his bank... person's cheque has bounced who was supposed to pay him for gibstopping work.
After my cuppa coffee i took Sam my foxterrier/papallion cross dog for a walk thru the empty paddock next door and on to Oaia road and back.
After lunch i cut those broken branches into pieces to be burnt. Tom my hubby helped me to carry and propped large pieces inside the chooks run. I raked leaves up from the lawn and dumped them into compost which now full.
Took pics of patio area where we had removed that leaning ivy tower - it was put there to cover that dome thingy to the sewer tank there. i covered it casually with a huge shell.
Picked lovely huge camellia flowers and placed them into narrow 'cylinder' glass vase. Gotta take paics of that - no one would believe how big they are!
Now let me see how this looks here in my blog...
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