For the
ear trumpets in the sky become more tolerant at this time of year.
After all, who wants to gush about a romantic versifier whose final grand passion was for his rocking chair and
ear trumpet?
Yes, that's a crutch with a genuine holster attached and an
ear trumpet for my semi-defunct hearing.
This is something not to be taken lightly - even though it's outside of the house, it's a worry and will probably result in much digging by the water board, but only after the lovely man from Welsh Water with his bionic
ear trumpet contraption finds its location.
But she declares she is "definitely dying" (in real life she went on to live another 20 years or so) and her imagined frailty - like her
ear trumpet - is used as a weapon or a shield against those whose dull company begins to tire her.
But I didn't need my
ear trumpet to hear another noise inside the lounge of our house, where I was gabbing to a pal about the outrageous cost of cod, the growing menace of juvenile delinquency and the irresistible lure of Birkenhead as a holiday destination.
Other things you need to know about Harriet Martineau - she was deaf and used an
ear trumpet; she did a lot of needlepoint and quiltmaking; she enjoyed using a telescope.
The "I have been fitted with an
ear trumpet," he said, delivering the word "trumpet" with a grin, recognising his new hearing aid was almost invisible and advanced enough for granite to hear the whispers of angels.
But when asked about her late arrival on stage and screen, she would sit in a retirement home for entertainers,
ear trumpet primed, claiming that she could not remember a thing about her life.
Tynecastle chief Vladimir Romanov spoke to Ranieri through an
ear trumpet. Tynecastle chief Vladimir Romanov spoke to Ranieri through an
ear trumpet.
I mean, if you're a 93-year-old Crimean War veteran with two wooden legs, an
ear trumpet and the belief things starting going down hill when Bismark 'got soft' on the Prussians, you might well check out what that young whippersnapper Dan O'Neill is up to.
In the first, airy, daylit room, for example, we were able to see in one glance environments as varied as Anish Kapoor's hypnotic oversize white
ear trumpet; Urs Fischer's series of glass-andwood boxes, suspended in a state of semi-completion; and James Casebere's photograph of hospital beds stacked chaotically in a cell-like space, the mundanity of the subject intensified by the diffuse gray light that permeates the work.
One pictures 'Bazza' these days being wheeled out in a bath chair, a tartan blanket wrapped about his knees with an
ear trumpet cocked in the air.
And if Jack's coming, I'll bring along my granny's old
ear trumpet.
She'll also listen to baby's heartbeat, using either a Pinard stethoscope, which looks like an
ear trumpet, or a sonicaid, an electronic stethoscope that amplifies baby's heartbeat so you can hear it - a great thrill!
