The Silence of Deafness is an Abstract, not an Absolute.
Saturday 25th March was my Mum’s birthday, Sunday 26th March is Mother’s day in the UK. I’m not normally conformist about such things as birthdays or hallmark holidays, but sometimes I get a good idea and am able to carry it through.
I went shopping earlier today and found a card which was all pink and girlie with a cartoon ‘girlie’ on the front. The text on the front says “Mum you taught me how to talk”…
The original ‘inner part’ of the card had the same cartoon girlie with a mobile phone in her hand blahing away with the text “so don’t blame me for the phone bill. Happy Birthday”. Now I’m the least girlie person on the planet, and I hate phones, not to mention WTF on a birthday card. So I carefully extracted the original and replaced it with:
A laser printout of http://www.barakta.org.uk/stuff/card.pdf
I’ll put a translation in the first comment.
[powered by WordPress.]

SomewhatSilent is an international community blogging effort centered around d/Deafness, hard of hearing, etc.
All are welcome.
* Politeness is an implied requirement. The community reserves it's right to banish trolls and jerks.
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Feb | Apr » | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
1084 queries. 3.574 seconds [powered by WordPress.]
March 25th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
The fingerspelling around the edges is “Happy Birthday” over and over again, in different orientations. Followed by:
“Never mind eh” (I talk a lot (my mum talks more) and my mum often jokes that she taught me to talk too well!)
“Happy Birthday”
“and”
“Happy Mothers Day”
“Lots of love”
“Natalya”
March 25th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
awwww thats great
It was my mums birthday last sunday and its Mammys day tomorrow!! so I just went with the obligatory box of chocs and the card!! its terribly sad I know but im a broke student!!
March 25th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
I can’t go for the chocolate option because my mum’s trying to lose weight, so she’d be offended by chocolates. We’re going to my mum’s best friends house for lunch tomorrow as that is where my mum is. We decided to avoid flowers/plants as well cos my girlfriend is allergic to the pollen and she has to drive
I think my sisters and I are paying for some nice photos taken of all of us, and some with my mum in. Godmother’s daughter used to be a photographer in the RAF, so she’s agreed to do them for cost. My mum doesn’t know about the photography bit, and she’s always wanting pictures of all her daughters (we don’t often see one another all together, and we don’t like one another much).
March 25th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
awww but its a lovely idea all the same
I hope the day goes very well for you
Happy mammys day and let us know how it goes
Hugs
now Im off to sleepies!!
Nighty!
March 25th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Sleep well. I’ll be back online tomorrow night, probably wanting to stab things with a rusty sporks (my sisters have that effect upon me). Hope you have a nice mammy’s day too.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Happy birthday to your mom, Natalya.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:56 am
(You too, Lette.)
March 26th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Thanks Sara. My mum was pleased to see all of us (older sister just about made it) and thought the photos were a great idea.
Annoyingly kim and I failed to sleep last night, so had about 90 mins crashed out before we had to get up. I was pretty dizzy when I got there, and managed to go flying in spectacular fashion when my mum shoved me during photoshooting. You’d think she’d have remembered I was dizzy - I probably didn’t hear the “move X” request *gah*.
March 27th, 2006 at 4:28 am
cheers sara