constituencies to ben just after his constituencies to ben just leave _ after his constituencies to ben just leave for— after his constituencies to ben just leave for what is pretty much a self—promotion exercise, let's face it. self-promotion exercise, let's face it. ~ ,, self-promotion exercise, let's face it. ~ s, , s, self-promotion exercise, let's face it. will either of you be voting for him to have _ it. will either of you be voting for him to have to _ it. will either of you be voting for him to have to go _ it. will either of you be voting for him to have to go undergo - him to have to go undergo challenges? i only watch bbc. great answer, tony. made zero. on that note, we will leave it. we will be back again tomorrow evening. with rachel cunliffe of the new statesman and ali miraj of the online site, the article. dojoin us then if you can but for now, goodnight.

this is my little make—up bag. i like to have things all in their set places so i get everything on the bed first and then i'm like, "right, let me just sort my life out". i was 17 years old when i lost my eyesight and since then, i've had to discover a load of life hacks to make tasks like packing a suitcase a lot easier. where is it? oh, yeah. there it is. so, these are little packing cubes. basically, i put bottoms in one, tops in the other, i'll zip it up and i might even label, like, "day one," in braille, and then i'lljust pack it. i live in the uk with my two guide dogs, olga, who is now retired, and miss molly. oh, i want you two to come so badly but i don't want you to be eaten by lions! you are! you will be eaten if you come, so you have to stay with nanny. gotta put you in the car now, my lovelies. it's like my left arm has been chopped off, girls!

she ultimately allows me to experience the world in a way where i don't get overwhelmed, because she has got it. # you spin me right round... and it's not going to be like that in kenya — it's gonna be me and my cane. not being able to take molly — it does scare me. so, i have a new passport, and it has braille on it! it says "passport" there. the flight from london to nairobi takes just under nine hours. can't articulate properly. i'm like... are we going to be ok? bye now! bye— bye! goodbye! oh, it's somewhere here — it says 0.3 away, frederick. here it is. thank you! nairobi. kenya's capital has a population of around li.5 million people and it's the country's largest city.

it is my first—ever morning here in africa and i'm in a completely new environment without the help of my guide dog, miss molly. nairobi is a place where many safaris begin but as i'm only staying here for a couple of days, i'm going to try and explore a bit and my first challenge is to cross this busy road. that's so close. 0k. loud traffic noise. i can still hear it all coming. would you like to cross? yeah, i am crossing. thank you so much. thank you! that is lovely. this is the middle section. nairobi is very overwhelming. zero out of ten accessibility when crossing the road. actually, possibly one out of ten, because of the lovely people. quite broken pavement.

a guy actually grabbed my cane but i didn't know what was happening. and that, to me, kind of puts me in a panic mode because i'm like, "how can i control the situation?" "what am i going to do?" i really wanted miss molly because she just tells me with her little face. she tilts it to the left or the right where shop doors are and things. so, relying on my cane, it's like, there is so much stuff in the way. it feels like i am in a festival, actually, with all the crowd noises. a matatu is a party on wheels and a very popular form of public transport here. each one is decorated with images of famous tv shows, rappers and sports teams. which is great — unless you are visually impaired. speaks swahili.

hello there! hi. can i get on the bus? yeah, you can get on the bus. ok, thank you. let me help you. slowly, slowly. right foot up. slowly, slowly. yells: this is really not like the 110 to birmingham that i used to get to school! # love you first, genuinely. loud music plays. i can't hear anything over the music! how am i meant to know where i am? i don't know. finally, i've come across a market. but notjust any market — a masai market. oh, yeah. oh, lovely. these are people, these are sailors.

a masai market means that we, as kenyans, we have been making from condition raw, and they are traditional arts. the masai are a tribe in kenya whose homeland is the masai mara, a savannah wilderness in south—western kenya, and the scene of the great migration that i will be heading to when i leave nairobi. this is the wildebeest. 0h! this one is the wildebeest. so, what does he look like? these are the legs. here is the ears. oh, that is the ears? yeah. oh, they've got weird ears! i didn't know that they felt like that! yeah, they are these ones! how much is he? 500. could you do me for a00? i can do for you. the market was great fun and ifelt like i really got to experience nairobi. but beneath the smiles, i must admit i'm completely

overwhelmed and really missing my guide dog, who helps me make sense of the world. back in the hotel room, and it's currently... robotic voice speaks. ..10:26pm in nairobi. and it has been such a full—on day, full of so many emotions. i am so excited for what's in store, but i cannot believe this is only day one! i am one of the 340,000 people in the uk who's registered blind or partially sighted. but visual impairment is on a spectrum, and everyone is different. and if you're wondering what i can see, it is pretty much this, wherever i am in the world. when i first went blind, the world became a scary place and i never dreamed that one day,

i'd be going on a safari in africa. i've come a long way since those early days but there is no doubt i'm going to need some help. so, i'm heading to the nairobi national museum to meet william, who says he will be the perfect guide to take me to the masai mara. hi! hello! you must be william! how are you? lovely to meet you, i'm lucy! i'm william. pleasure to meet you. i know this is a little bit forward, as we have just met, but i wondered if you can audio describe yourself, just so i can build a picture of you in my mind. ok, i am five nine. ok, yep, i can hear where your voice... i like short hair — you can touch my hair — i love short hair. oh, ok, lovely! i don't have any beard. 0h, 0k. and what are you wearing? i'm wearing a green sweater. lovely. oh, yeah, perfect. and i am wearing khaki shorts.

shorts. yes, i will be your eyes for today. and i have a small surprise for you. you do? i do. oh, ok, that sounds really cool. my big surprise is getting to meet some of the stars of the savannah. elephant trumpets. the great hall of mammals is a collection of taxidermy animals which have been in the museum for years. but not every visitor gets to get up this close and personal. so, a zebra has one colour and the other colour on the top. all of the mouth is black. 0k. so, we say a zebra is black and white on the top. laughs. i think touching taxidermy animals, initially, was like, oh! do the teeth look like

traditional human teeth? like human teeth, but much bigger than human teeth — two times bigger. i don't know, how are they going to smell? how are they going to feel when i am touching these dead animals, let's put it bluntly. yes, i want you to touch the eyebrows. i was like, "no, lucy. "like, just experience it completely and wholly. "this is one of your main senses now, touch." and how you know an elephant is right—handed or left—handed is by the tusk. so, this elephant is right—handed. is right—handed? it's right—handed. the shorter the tusk, that is the side that it uses most the time. m ost ofte n. and another thing — when he wants to warn you, you will see him flapping one, two, three. another thing about the giraffe, it has the biggest heart. the heart of a giraffe is 1a to 15 kilos. wow.

so that it can pump the blood up there. for me, i last saw nine years ago, so when i think of visual memories or anything that i used to be able to see, it's like someone has taken a picture and put that picture in a drawer and locked it away for nine years. so, that is what today was about — it was reimagining things that i used to be able to see and now can't. the next day, it was time to leave nairobi and begin my journey to the masai mara, with will as my guide. hello there. low pressure which has been with us over the weekend will be hanging around into the start of this new week, so monday and tuesday look

and saddled with rain and gales at times followed by a bus and spells. mid—week, high pressure building on over the continent settle things down. it turns dry and all areas very mild, with air from the south. low pressure still with us. through tonight, it stays unsettled. windy, with winds picking up across western and southern areas, pushing showers or longer spells of rain northwards, some quite heavy across the northern isles in southern scotland, wales and north west england. with the cloud and also the wind, temperatures no lower than 7—11. for monday, i think a windy day in store especially for cat channel and irish sea coast, where we might see gales. fairly cloudy, with showers and longer spells of rain pushing upwards. limited brightness. best of the brightness in northern scotland and eastern england at times. winds a feature, blustery, very windy around the southern coast, but mild for the time of year, mid—teens for many, even

up to 1a or so through the central belt of scotland. and then through monday night a band of rain and gales spreads across the country. i think by tuesday morning it should be out of the way in the north sea, and then it is a blustery day once again for tuesday. scattered showers and longs spells of spells of rain, some of them heavy, some of the best sunny spells towards eastern areas. temperatures may be 15—16, well above the seasonal norm in the south, low teens across scotland. this area of low pressure begins to migrate northwards, sitting to the northwest of scotland on wednesday. isobars will open out, so a breezy day for wednesday, not as windy. good spells of sunshine through central areas, fewer showers further south, most affecting scotland, closer to the area of low pressure. here, 12 degrees, the rest, 13—15. bigger changes into thursday. high pressure building over the near continent,

pushing those low pressure system away in the atlantic, and we will also draw air from a long way south from the azores. so very mild thursday and friday. it remains quite windy and there will be quite a lot of cloud around. brightness will be limited, but very mild for the time of year.

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