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''In typical Cathy style she outlived the doctors' expectations and was able to have Christmas with Bernard as his wife - they married on publication day - 20th August 2012. Towards the end her mobility was severely compromised but Bernard said that they still managed to "talk each other's ears off". They were a devoted couple.''

Consider the world. There might not be enough of it to go around in some over-crowded places, but there is enough variety in it - and us - for us all to have our own version of it; our own perceptions, experiences and expectations. Those are drastically altered from those of you and I if one is blind, as Cathy Birchall is. But that simple fact did not stop her taking a year out, and starting in August 2008, perch herself on her husband's pillion seat and be taken from one end of the earth to the other and back again.