Suzanne Fletcher's Blog

I paste below what this was about - the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braiile

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is celebrating 200 years since the birth of Louis Braille. His legacy of the Braille system of reading (‘dots' which represent the letters of the alphabet) has enabled thousands of blind children and adults worldwide to experience the joy of reading.  Why not join in the celebrations by coming to come to work dressed in something with dots on to celebrate Dotty Day and make a donation of your choice to help support Blind Voice UK and RNIB.   RNIB is the UK's leading sight loss charity and Europe's largest producer of Braille. Blind Voice UK is based in Stockton and is a leading local voice in supporting and advocating for blind and visually impaired people.  There will be allocated co-ordinators in council buildings across Stockton Borough to collect donations on behalf of the charities so please join in the fun and make a real difference to people with sight impairments and sight loss!

So I donned a dotted dress to go to a meeting with an officer.  However I didn't expect to go dotty!  One printer went mad and printed out masses paper non stop with silly symbols on top insrtead of a few pages of a community group's minutes.  The photocopier jammed 3 times.  Another printer had flashing lights and the main one I used was running out of toner.  I won't be wearing that dress for a while in there - altough the dark colour did help when I had toner all over my hands.