[ebooktalk] Re: Introduction.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:13:58 +0100
Very interesting life Ian.
Strangely I had never heard of Benwell until about a year ago, now I've met
loads of people who went there in the last 12 months.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:05 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Introduction.
> OK, here's my potted biog.
>
> I was born in gateshead, the oldest blind child of blind parents. I went to
> the school we all knew as Benwell Dean which was where my Mam had been
> educated and then to RNC rowton Castle just outside Shrewsbury which was
> where I met and later became friends with our estimable list founder. Having
> trained as a teacher in Buckinghamshire I failed to get a classroom job but
> ended up working in a community education project on tyneside. My freelance
> broadcasting career started with occasional contributions to In touch and
> then lead to to local radio and TV presenting. After 12 years as a freelance
> I moved to london to take up a producer's job with BBC TVs Disability
> Programmes Unit where I eventually became the Editor.
>
> In 2007, following spells back in network radio production and other less
> glamorous areas of the beeb, I became Editor of the magazine Disability Now,
> which is now no longer a print publication but a thriving, vibrant and
> dynamic website. I live in Ealing West London with my wife Sarah and our two
> children. I have another older daughter from a previous relationship. Like
> elaine, I've met, interviewed and known many varied kinds of author over the
> years from Joseph Heller to Barbara Taylor Bradford. My favourite of all was
> the lovely Alan Plater.
> On 25 Apr 2013, at 17:58, CJ & AA MAY wrote:
>
>> I am sorry. I never thought to introduce myself as I hadn't realised there
>> were so many people unknown to me. So, in brief:
>> I am Alison May and retired two years ago after 27 years as a Rehab. Worker
>> and Team Leader with Kent Association for the Blind.
>> I am celelbrating my 30th wedding anniversary this July with Chris, who took
>> Voluntary Early Release from the Ministry of Defence Police last December.
>> I attended a sighted primary school and a partially sighted junior school
>> before going to Linden Lodge when I was 10 following being registered as
>> blind. I then trained as a braille shorthand typist at RNIB Pembridge Place
>> before working for various companies in a secretarial capacity. , one of
>> which being for Social Services, which lead to me being employed as a
>> Technical Officer for the Visually Impaired. .
>> And that's it, in a nutshell.
>> Alison
>> I attende
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
>> Sent: 25 April 2013 14:26
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Introduction.
>>
>> Hello Elaine,
>> Lovely to see you here. I don't think you had quite made it onto the list
>> when I told you I was Clare Jakob in Chorleywood days. I have heard about
>> you on and off over the years from Sue Sharp. I am married to Voldi for
>> almost 32 years (he is also on this list) and we live near Romford in Essex
>> and have two girls in their twenties, Geraldine and Natalie. Voldi is
>> retired and I work rather sporadically at music, mostly teaching braille
>> music and singing. I like all sorts of books but mostly read 20th Century
>> fiction, biography and social history, and music-related stuff. Nice to see
>> Alison here from the Worms list too. Clare
>>
>>
>>
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