Congratulations to Paul from Charlottetown, Canada! He wins a year’s supply of hearing aid batteries. His batteries are now winging their way across the Atlantic thanks to those good people at Royal Mail. Congratulations, Paul!

The competition to win a year’s supply of hearing aid batteries ends today. You’ve got until midnight (UK time) to get your entry in and give yourself a chance to win a bunch of Rayovacs. http://www.deafness-and-hearingaids.net/2010/01/18/win-a-years-supply-of-hearing-aid-batteries/ Good luck – you’ve got to be in it to win it!

I’m now on Twitter, so you have one more place where you can listen to me bitch and rant. I’ll be posting snippets of hearing aid related news that don’t warrant a post on here and no doubt some other stuff too, no idea what yet though, let’s see how it goes… Follow me on Twitter.

Just a quick note to anyone who has sent me an email recently and hasn’t had a reply. My PC took a turn for the worse the other week and I had to re-install the operating system. I wasn’t able to salvage my email and so everything sent before Monday 10th November has been lost. [...]

My Internet connection has been on the blink for a few days now so I haven’t been able to write or check the comments on here. Just checked the comments today and Sarah from SpeakUpLibrarian has tagged me in a game of Blog Tag! So, to stick with the rules I have to answer the [...]

I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you to everyone who visited this blog over the last 12 months and a special big thank you to everyone who took the time to comment on my ramblings. I’ve really enjoyed reading a lot of great deaf / hard of hearing [...]

This is a little story from a new blog. I won’t spoil it by saying anything about it. Go read it already. The Gospel of Hearing Aids at http://beethovensears.com/ I wish I was there to see the guy’s face!

Just to let you know, I have activated all links in comments on this blog. By default, WordPress marked all links in comments with the “nofollow” HTML attribute – this meant that when Google and the other search engines processed a page on this blog they would not count the link as a valid one [...]

The most popular entries from the last couple of months: I didn’t hear you, can you repeat that? Pardon? Say what? Come again? Say that again? Eh? Can you repeat that? Sorry? You what? Aye? I missed that? Hmm? It doesn’t matter how you say it, they all mean the same thing: you didn’t hear [...]