December 13, 2025 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
You're listening to a podcast from Newstalks EDB. Follow this
and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio. You
lived it, We remember it in my day with Romans
News Talks ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hi there, Patrick, Hey Roman, how are you? Yeah? Good Patrick?
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, I'm a blind tensioner live in the rest home.
But yeah, a couple of tips. Has anyone covered hydrogen peroxide? Can?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I oh no, not yet for making your hair go
yellow or white?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It can. The girls used to use it. There's a bleach.
They're here and Mum swore by it, so did my grandparents.
You can still buy it in chemists. I think it
comes in a six percent dilution in the plastic bottle
ready to go. If you cut that in half with
(01:07):
water out of three percent, it's great as a disinfectant.
It kills bacteria in wounds. One would spray it on
our cuts and anythings we've got dirt in them, and
you come home to playing football and the sheet paddic
at the back and all that sort of stuff you
(01:28):
come in with abrasions. Yeah, boys, cut with some hydrogen peroxide.
It eats biological material, so it just eats any of
the bugs anything pussy, anything that can poison you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yes, I seem to recall people using it. I think
we had it at home as kids for pimples.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Would that be right, Yeah, that's right. It nails nails,
anything bacterial or biological material. It eats it, right. It's
six percent straight out of the bottle. You get a
little plastic spray a bottle as well. That's hand, especially
when you want to use it to dilute three percent
for using on bodies. Yeah, but if you take it
(02:10):
at six percent and you spray it on like a
coffee spill on the carpet, you spray it till it's
wet and shipped into the pile, and you don't rub
it so you don't damage the pile of the carpet,
and you just let it dry. And when it's complete
and it's completely dry, you just use the vacuum without
(02:33):
the foot on it. You just use the top of
the pipe on the handle, and so you can scrape
that across, rapping up the pile. And so you need
deep suction. Yes, and it just spit it all out.
That eats all the biological material in the coffee or tea,
takes those stains out and it doesn't leave the carpet
damaged in any way. You won't know there was a
(02:53):
stain there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Excellent. Yeah, and that's a good time. Isoproch that heavy?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Good? No hydrogen peroxide?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, you know, I was about to say. Isopropal alcohol
has been mentioned as well. Have you ever used isopropal
alcohol for cleaning?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, printing in years so we used it a lot, yes, so, yes,
it's handy. The other thing is windows. I put some
vinegar in my mix. Like vinegar, I use a little
bit of detergent, and I put massivated spirits in it,
(03:31):
and use a printing of handytawel or newspaper ready, and
you do pain at a time with it. You know
the squeeges that you can use for your windscreens on
cars and stuff. Yes, if you've got a squeegee, some
of them got a phone pad on the other side
of the opposite the squeegee bar.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So you can bet in your mixture soap pain at
a time and then squeegee it off and while it's
still got some dampness there, puck it off with the
paper brilliant and it takes all the smears off it
I've done thousands of when those over my seventy two years,
I bet perfectly. The other beauty of this is whether
(04:14):
it's aluminum, jeinery or wood, it kills that black stuff
down in the cracks. The vinegarl just kill that bungle stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's a great that's a great tip. What was the
just people who are rushing around looking for a pen
and paper? What was the mixture again? For that Patrick, for.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You use, I would put a good cup, maybe two
cups in half a bucket of my mix and my
water mix. I don't have the water hot because that
makes the messivated spirits evaporade out too quickly. Put it
on coal, soak that pain, squeege it clean, and then
(04:58):
hit it with the newspaper, all with handy tails.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And what was the what was the proportions again, going
back to the mixture proportions.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Of it's about a half a back at the water
and then a couple of cups of white vinegar and
some form of detergent could be somewhat spoke whatever. You
don't need a home and soap, but you know the
(05:29):
vinegar is taking away any fungal material on the windows. Yes,
and soapy aspect just helps clean anything greasy, And of
course then the double whenny or the double effect, is
that the vinegar also kills any fungal stuff around the
cracks and edges of the windows.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Makes sense, now, Patrick, everything's changed for you. How long
have you been without sight?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I went blind so it couldn't work anymore. Or it
was an early childhood teacher for the last sixteen years
in my career, and I just couldn't read the computers anymore.
So I retired six months early. And since then, the
glaucoma has, you know, on a scale of one to ten,
(06:18):
I'm a ten, which means that your eyesight drops off,
like like going down steps. It plateaus out for a
while and it'll drop off again. So you've got to
recalibrate your whole world of what you can do and
can't do. Yeah, it's a challenging, a challenging experience, but
(06:39):
now I've got I can see a slight bit of
movement out of my left la, but I can't see
any detail. I could see a chair in the hallway.
If I'm walking up the hallway without my white cane,
I can see a mass there. So I can generally
avoid big things like that, but it's the tripping hazards
(07:02):
and stepping off, and it would be tough.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I just because listening to you talking about those wonderful
ways of getting rid of stains and then losing your
sight everything, your whole perspective on life in general would
have changed dramatically, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Look it's just the most incredible journey in any ways,
I wouldn't change a thing. I've learned so much. I
realize how blind so many sighted people are. There's a
sightedness that your brain's not getting data from the eyes,
(07:42):
so it gives the eyes. The brain gives the eyes
the finger and tunes in on the sound, and so
I can tell footsteps coming down the hallway and a
rest time. I know which care give ri is before
they get in the room. So you become so dependent
(08:02):
on data from sound and voices and words use. I'm
right into etymology, the origins of words and all that
sort of stuff. So I do a lot of work
on my lexis system here. And what I've noticed is
that like stuff will say to me, here's your morning
(08:23):
tea or here's your coffee, they forget to tell you that.
Then a big junk of cake herrot cake next to it,
and you don't know you read your hand to stick
it right in the icing.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh yeah, that's and that's kind of I guess that's
the learning for both parties, right, it's the learning for
their man for you and hopefull you. You're getting some
good people looking after you there, Patrick. You sound very positive.
I think you're right. Would you stay so cool?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
My Spanish hollow Lisa Reason for Reason for More from
News Talks at b Listen live on air or online,
and keep our shows with you wherever you go with
our podcasts on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from Newstalks EDB. Follow this
and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio. You
lived it, We remember it in my day with Romans
News Talks ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hi there, Patrick, Hey Roman, how are you? Yeah? Good Patrick?
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, I'm a blind tensioner live in the rest home.
But yeah, a couple of tips. Has anyone covered hydrogen peroxide? Can?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I oh no, not yet for making your hair go
yellow or white?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It can. The girls used to use it. There's a bleach.
They're here and Mum swore by it, so did my grandparents.
You can still buy it in chemists. I think it
comes in a six percent dilution in the plastic bottle
ready to go. If you cut that in half with
(01:07):
water out of three percent, it's great as a disinfectant.
It kills bacteria in wounds. One would spray it on
our cuts and anythings we've got dirt in them, and
you come home to playing football and the sheet paddic
at the back and all that sort of stuff you
(01:28):
come in with abrasions. Yeah, boys, cut with some hydrogen peroxide.
It eats biological material, so it just eats any of
the bugs anything pussy, anything that can poison you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yes, I seem to recall people using it. I think
we had it at home as kids for pimples.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Would that be right, Yeah, that's right. It nails nails,
anything bacterial or biological material. It eats it, right. It's
six percent straight out of the bottle. You get a
little plastic spray a bottle as well. That's hand, especially
when you want to use it to dilute three percent
for using on bodies. Yeah, but if you take it
(02:10):
at six percent and you spray it on like a
coffee spill on the carpet, you spray it till it's
wet and shipped into the pile, and you don't rub
it so you don't damage the pile of the carpet,
and you just let it dry. And when it's complete
and it's completely dry, you just use the vacuum without
(02:33):
the foot on it. You just use the top of
the pipe on the handle, and so you can scrape
that across, rapping up the pile. And so you need
deep suction. Yes, and it just spit it all out.
That eats all the biological material in the coffee or tea,
takes those stains out and it doesn't leave the carpet
damaged in any way. You won't know there was a
(02:53):
stain there.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Excellent. Yeah, and that's a good time. Isoproch that heavy?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Good? No hydrogen peroxide?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, you know, I was about to say. Isopropal alcohol
has been mentioned as well. Have you ever used isopropal
alcohol for cleaning?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, printing in years so we used it a lot, yes, so, yes,
it's handy. The other thing is windows. I put some
vinegar in my mix. Like vinegar, I use a little
bit of detergent, and I put massivated spirits in it,
(03:31):
and use a printing of handytawel or newspaper ready, and
you do pain at a time with it. You know
the squeeges that you can use for your windscreens on
cars and stuff. Yes, if you've got a squeegee, some
of them got a phone pad on the other side
of the opposite the squeegee bar.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So you can bet in your mixture soap pain at
a time and then squeegee it off and while it's
still got some dampness there, puck it off with the
paper brilliant and it takes all the smears off it
I've done thousands of when those over my seventy two years,
I bet perfectly. The other beauty of this is whether
(04:14):
it's aluminum, jeinery or wood, it kills that black stuff
down in the cracks. The vinegarl just kill that bungle stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's a great that's a great tip. What was the
just people who are rushing around looking for a pen
and paper? What was the mixture again? For that Patrick, for.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You use, I would put a good cup, maybe two
cups in half a bucket of my mix and my
water mix. I don't have the water hot because that
makes the messivated spirits evaporade out too quickly. Put it
on coal, soak that pain, squeege it clean, and then
(04:58):
hit it with the newspaper, all with handy tails.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And what was the what was the proportions again, going
back to the mixture proportions.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Of it's about a half a back at the water
and then a couple of cups of white vinegar and
some form of detergent could be somewhat spoke whatever. You
don't need a home and soap, but you know the
(05:29):
vinegar is taking away any fungal material on the windows. Yes,
and soapy aspect just helps clean anything greasy, And of
course then the double whenny or the double effect, is
that the vinegar also kills any fungal stuff around the
cracks and edges of the windows.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Makes sense, now, Patrick, everything's changed for you. How long
have you been without sight?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I went blind so it couldn't work anymore. Or it
was an early childhood teacher for the last sixteen years
in my career, and I just couldn't read the computers anymore.
So I retired six months early. And since then, the
glaucoma has, you know, on a scale of one to ten,
(06:18):
I'm a ten, which means that your eyesight drops off,
like like going down steps. It plateaus out for a
while and it'll drop off again. So you've got to
recalibrate your whole world of what you can do and
can't do. Yeah, it's a challenging, a challenging experience, but
(06:39):
now I've got I can see a slight bit of
movement out of my left la, but I can't see
any detail. I could see a chair in the hallway.
If I'm walking up the hallway without my white cane,
I can see a mass there. So I can generally
avoid big things like that, but it's the tripping hazards
(07:02):
and stepping off, and it would be tough.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I just because listening to you talking about those wonderful
ways of getting rid of stains and then losing your
sight everything, your whole perspective on life in general would
have changed dramatically, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Look it's just the most incredible journey in any ways,
I wouldn't change a thing. I've learned so much. I
realize how blind so many sighted people are. There's a
sightedness that your brain's not getting data from the eyes,
(07:42):
so it gives the eyes. The brain gives the eyes
the finger and tunes in on the sound, and so
I can tell footsteps coming down the hallway and a
rest time. I know which care give ri is before
they get in the room. So you become so dependent
(08:02):
on data from sound and voices and words use. I'm
right into etymology, the origins of words and all that
sort of stuff. So I do a lot of work
on my lexis system here. And what I've noticed is
that like stuff will say to me, here's your morning
(08:23):
tea or here's your coffee, they forget to tell you that.
Then a big junk of cake herrot cake next to it,
and you don't know you read your hand to stick
it right in the icing.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh yeah, that's and that's kind of I guess that's
the learning for both parties, right, it's the learning for
their man for you and hopefull you. You're getting some
good people looking after you there, Patrick. You sound very positive.
I think you're right. Would you stay so cool?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
My Spanish hollow Lisa Reason for Reason for More from
News Talks at b Listen live on air or online,
and keep our shows with you wherever you go with
our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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