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I arrived in this world in 1965, the same year as Brad Pitt and JK Rowling. He got the looks, she got the brains … I did not, so I was forced to make my fame and fortune more modestly...

My mother recently embarked on a trip to the National Theatre to see Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo, accompanied by two of her teenage granddaughters – my youngest niece and my daughter. Clearly she is teetering on the verge of insanity...

Living with an Army officer who works in MoD does have some advantages. Unfortunately she is away all week and this morning when her beloved dog had vomited all over the kitchen floor I feel that am entitled to a...

Eureka! What a difference a year - and some quality hearing aids - made to my sanity. Not that I am yet in need of one of these devilish little devices but my magnificent parents were, even though they have...

Amplified phones belong to a group of amplified daily living aids normally refereed to as ALDs or Assistive Listening Devices. The group consists of a number of extra loud aids from alerting devices to doorbells, the most popular of which...

Well Christmas is done and dusted for another year. I can only hope that whoever reads this, and I know there are one or two of you, had as good as time as I did. Perfect company, perfect food (although...

Last night HearingDirect.com had a pre-Christmas business review and in keeping with the festive season we adjourned from the office to the pub. Once we had put the commercial world to rights our attention turned to the menu. Firstly let...

I was listening to the radio recently and George Cole, the actor who played Arthur Daley on Minder, was being interviewed. It was frankly a very dull interview, saved only by its brevity and a single interesting comment. Chris Evans...

We get a number of emails from customers following up on their experience of dealing with HearingDirect, as I am sure every other company must do. I cannot say that it is a “high” or “low” number as I do...