Still alive
For those of who are wondering, yes, I’m still alive!
I know I’ve been neglecting North of the Stupid Line of late. I don’t really know why. I guess work has just been so overwhelming that I just can’t be bothered to post in the evenings.
There’s not much to report really:
- The garage is almost complete; just the roof to go. Will post some pictures fairly soon.
- I’ve relaunched Deaf Lawyers UK. If you want to become a lawyer and you’re Deaf, please go have a look, as we really want to get membership going again.
- At work, we’ve launched a new webcam advice project across England and Wales to Deaf BSL users who are eligible for legal aid. It’s a brilliant, innovative project which potentially has enormous benefits for the Deaf community; making legal advice accessible to all Deaf BSL and sign language users. We all know how difficult it can be to make service providers, particularly solicitors, to provide BSL to English Interpreters for appointments etc. I will post the press release in a separate post.
- I’ve got a new Communication Assistant at work – Lianne Lusty – who will also act as a personal assistant on some things. I’ve got high hopes that she’s going to stop me drowning in work!
More soon.
Tags: Ramblings
April 20th, 2009 at 5:05 am
hi i am a scottish lawyer learning to sign. i am not deaf but do have a few deaf clients. do u have a similar organisation here in scotland?
look forward to hearing from you
lesley
June 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Lesley
Could you please contact me at work, rob.wilks@royaldeaf.org.uk?
You would be a useful contact to have as we sometimes have queries from Scots, but are often unable to help as we don’t cover Scotland.
Thanks.
Rob