Well erm  erm  had a word with erm  who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm   then spoke to  who was the Chief Education Officer and er, I think they were a bit erm, bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of  but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that  many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm, in fact by that time war had probably started