The Weekend Selection: The balls, boats and books edition

Posted on December 7, 2013 by



Here are the top five new blogposts from the last 7-days based on pageviews.

  1. Deaf News: Deaf footballer reaches fifty-goal milestone in mainstream junior football with a hat-trick
  2. World’s first deaf solo round-the-world sailor Gerry Hughes to recieve award on ITV1′s Surprise Surprise tonight
  3. Donna Williams: “Barriers often come from blissful ignorance.” What I learned from being part of the Human Library
  4. Richard Turner: I’m focusing on the positives not the negatives now my hearing has almost completely goneDeaf News:
  5. Watch: Interpreters translating music into sign language make headlines around the world

And the top three not from the previous seven days

  1. Charlie Swinbourne: The 10 annoying habits of hearing people
  2. Charlie Swinbourne: The 10 annoying habits of deaf people!
  3. Vicki Galt: Two years ago, my Deaf son came home from football training in tears. Here’s what I did next

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