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Emma Williams shares accessible recipes, hints and tips, with plenty of input from the community.

Relax your way into the weekend with an informal get together brought to you by the Braillists. Tell us what’s on your mind, ask us your questions and work with other people in the group to come up with solutions for each other. Your very own Braillists family catch up, minus the annoying in-laws!

We’ll be starting at page 22 of Fingerprint volume 3 (page 20 in older editions). In the second half of the session, join us for a quiz on all the Braille that’s been covered to date.

Do you ever find yourself too busy or tired to cook in the middle of the week? Cooking large quantities of food at the weekend, and freezing portions for future consumption could well be the answer! Ben and Liam will be discussing simple recipes that scale and freeze well, as well as adaptations you can use to make a variety of dishes from one simple recipe.

Robert Englebretson has been internationally recognised for his work updating and completing the Braille version of the International Phonetic Alphabet. We’ll be talking to him about his work completing the braille IPA code, the importance of specialised braille codes to blind students and professionals and his research interest in braille reading and writing from the perspective of the cognitive sciences.

We’re opening Fingerprint volume 4 for the first time in this session, starting with the signs for THE and ING.

Join Ben and Liam for our weekly Clever Cooking series of kitchen hints, tips and discussions.

This week, we’ll be talking nifty kitchen hacks and tricks. Cooking can be great fun, but it can also be frustrating and stressful, as anyone who’s ever tried to peel a clove of garlic will know.

Ben and Liam have been scouring the internet to find the most useful hacks and tricks to save you time and grey hairs in the kitchen! One of our favourite things about these sessions is the strong community feel, so if you have any kitchen hacks, from microwave scrambled eggs to more accessible ways to cook spaghetti, we’d love you to share them with the group!

We’ll be talking about COVID-19. We’ve run a few sessions now on the impact of lockdown and social distancing measures on blind and partially sighted people, but up until now, we haven’t talked much about the illness itself.

Pardy, a blind man who has recovered from a relatively severe COVID-19 infection requiring a stay in hospital, will be joining us to discuss his experiences. We’ll also be joined by Geraldine, a mobility coordinator from Ireland who has recovered from COVID-19 in the Irish healthcare system. We’re particularly interested in discussing these experiences from a blindness perspective, and our guests will be happy to answer any questions you might have.

We understand this will be a sensitive or difficult topic to discuss for many of our subscribers. As with all our meetings, this call will be run in line with our moderation policy. You can find more information at https://www.braillists.org/staysafe/moderation/

We’ll be starting at page 14 of Fingerprint volume 4 this week with the comma and question mark, and progressing to signs for GH, WH, FOR and ED as time allows.

Emma, Ben and Liam are all immensely proud of the community we’ve built up around our Wednesday evening Clever Cooking sessions. It’s an absolute pleasure to spend time with the group, and hear people sharing ideas and recipes with each other every week.

This week, Ben and Liam want to know what you’ve got out of the sessions. What you’ve learned, what you’ve tried, and what you’d like to try in future. We’ll also be announcing our plans for the sessions over the next few weeks, including some special guests!

Join us to discuss accessible kitchen techniques, equipment, recipes and more!