Upcoming Meetings

July/August 2022 Read this on our website www.iam-bristol.org.uk Mark told us that he returned to sailing in 2012, this being a team sport where the entire crew have some form of visual impairment. Navigation is achieved with the aid of buoys marking out the course, each with its own unique sound. As part of the Great Britain world cup team he won a silver medal in 2017 and the gold in 2019.

Away from sailing Mark gives guided tours of Westonbirt Arboretum, which allow sighted people to engage with space, and has recorded audio descriptions for the SS Great Britain. All in all a very inspiring evening.

Mark Austen plays us in to the May meeting

In June we decamped to our summer venue (but not in July! See page 8.) of the Wishing Well at Codrington. We would have to state that the turnout was a little disappointing, but those who did attend enjoyed a drive or two with some enthusiastic associates. This was followed by some anecdotes from Chief Observer Geoff Bevan regarding his early career in the music business, and his slightly more dodgy youth which seems to have been spent illegally accessing railway property and occasioning mischief once thereon! One can only be grateful for the statute of limitations…