Monday morning was a wet one, but wonderfully mild. We met our friends to walk in light rain, and then Her Highness and I went into the village to get some groceries and to pick up a prescription. Then we came home so Sheba could rest and I could putter until lunch.
I Zoomed with Steve who left last night for New Zealand and Australia for a month. He turns 70 today, and as he does every time he enters a new decade, he goes off to an exotic location. On his 60th, he went to Easter Island and on his 50th, we went to South Africa together.
In the afternoon, I did work for SPACE. Aidan wanted me to develop some text for the project I’ve been hired to be part of, drawing the ideas from a STAMMA questionnaire about bad communication experiences experienced by stutterers. I’m proud and happy to be working on fixing problems that people who stutter have.
A great many people who stutter (PWS) are ‘covert’ stutterers. Covert stutterers can pass as fluent speakers. They avoid words that cause them problems to achieve fluency. Being covert is not possible for me. I, and all severe stutterers, cannot hide our disfluency and it’s us who have the worst problems with AI generated voices and impatient clerks and customer service people.
Our afternoon walk was short because there was still light rain, but we’d had a good long morning walk. And then our we both enjoyed our regular evening routing together.
Today is warm and wet again. We’ll walk, I’ll Zoom with Aidan, I’ll read and tonight will be like every other Winter evening. It looks like the coming three days will be bright and dry for a change. We’re in for some good walking weather.
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