How Tactile Paving Helps The Handicapped At Stations

Those lines running parallel to the base of the picture are raised metal to guide the feet of the blind. Some blind people have tunnel vision or restricted vision, so if they look ahead or to the left or right they cannot see the floor in front of them. Others see a blur.

As you get older you get cataracts, like taking off your reading glasses. When I went to the optician for a sight test in London, England, I was told that I was developing cataracts, but they would not need, or qualify for, an operation for another ten years. Naturally you put off an operation on your eyes as long as you can. Meanwhile, clear images and bright colours on artwork are welcome, as is anything to lift your mood.

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Tactile Paving
Tactile Paving is the technical term for those raised round bumps. The SMRT website points out that the tactile paving in Singapore leads to the wide wheelchair access gate where you put in your ticket to enter the platform or go to the escaltor down to the platform.

Useful Websites
http://blog.smrt.com.sg/smrt-mobility-features/ (Tactile paving)

Happy Day In Hatch End - A Look At Local Life

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Where to go for a walk on a sunny day? Up and down the shops, of course.

A happy day in Hatch End. Blue skies. Warm in London. Photo by Angela Lansbury, copyright.

Need an eye test? We have two opticians. 

I love these mirror like spectacles.

This little man is getting an eye test.

Look who is watching you! I spotted a turtle in a tank. "Three turtles," the assistant informs me.  in a tank. "Males," the assistant informed me. I obviously need to get my eyes tested. I was about to ask, "How do you know they are males?" But I thought the better of it.

If you want to stop for a drink, the Moon and Sixpence pub has jolly fuschia coloured flowers at the front, two smiling scarecrows, bunting advertising fruit ciders and berries. Walk through and at the back garden you'll find bench seating in the shade or the sun.

Next door at Orama restaurant the industrious staff are busy preparing for another busy evening, sweeping the street outside. Many high streets in the UK and overseas could copy.

The lorry (truck to any American readers) is delivering to Tesco Express.  I bought chocolate brownie flavour milk for an afternoon summer party. The flavoured milk keeps for a month or more. The slogan on the lorry sums up my feeling. 'We love shopping locally.'

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

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