However, we also hit incredible pay dirt because Celia Robertson hands over another surplus Fonix hearing aid analyser and a tympanometer. The analyser is already packed and ready to go tomorrow to Frankland to boost their output.
14 March. We return from a most enjoyable visit to Thailand and Sri Lanka. The tsunami damage is still terribly evident in part but one hope that the recovery will gather pace. While in Sri Lanka we make contact with a new customer, Dr Chandra Jayasuriya in the main Colombo Hospital ENT Department. I hope that this will be able to send her plenty of hearing aids.
16 March. We have what appears to be another possible manna from heaven day! Why, because a very nice man called David Peel rings to perhaps offer the premises of 600 members of the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists for a summer collection of used hearing equipment.
18 March. Our very good friend Katy Davis from Rotherfield rings to say that she has some hearing aids and other equipment to be collected.
20 March. Returning from a meeting of Lions in East Grinstead I collect 3 audiometers, one analyser and about 300 hearing aids from Katy. The aids will of course be sent to Frankland prison for checking and then returned so Katy can send them to Africa. The analyser will augment the testing equipment at the prison and at least two of the audiometers are likely to go to the Ukraine via Tony Williamson of Lancing and Sompting Lions Club.
22 March. As a result of call to Janet Davis at our Lions HQ in Birmingham, a lady in turn calls me from �Yours� magazine. An article on recycling obsolete and redundant items will be included in the issue coming out on May 22. The Used Hearing Equipment Project will be a feature. Now that�s yet another fillip, wonderful!
26 March. Splendid and long standing supporter Ann Perrett of Hearing Concern, Romsey ends me a most interesting copy of their magazine �The Communicator�. What is more, there is a sizeable two and a half pages included of our exploits; thanks Ann.
27 March. The latest box of �manna� arrives from Frankland. Now to find time to send the 350 odd hearing aids on their way.
8 April. After a month waiting a post card from Herve and Anne-Marie Mathieu-Bloise in Eu, France gets translated by our resident Franco English Lion Antony Reed. Whoops, Herve is off to the Ukraine shortly so we despatch 200 hearing aids off to him smartly!
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