Over the next few weeks we will be publishing blogs from Deafblind Scotland members about life during lockdown. We hope you will enjoy, and we are delighted to issue the first blog by Issy, who has taken up gardening during lockdown.

“As someone who was born severely deaf and then went completely blind a number of years ago – one of the side-effects of all of this was that my garden had slowly turned into a jungle.

I didn’t realised how bad it had got until I actually got lost in it, lost in my own back garden how humiliating!

On several occasions I had to call on my retired guide dog and get her to guide me back to my gate or shout for my husband who would come and rescue me. So when lockdown came into being I realised I was going to be spending a lot more time getting lost in the garden and so I decided to do something about it.

Now I get lost in my own wee world of gardening and know that I can find my own way home”.