IN this violent age of muggings, murders, dishonesty and every kind of violence, where goodness and loving kindness are rare, may I through your letters column thank all those concerned with the outing to Southport for blind and partially sighted people.

I had a wonderful day and can't praise highly enough all those concerned caring people.

I was invited last year but could not go because I am also disabled and need a wheelchair and had no one to wheel me around.

That problem was overcome this year because Dawn, the young lady who helps me with my learning a few hours every week, immediately said: "I'll take you".

She wheeled me about until I was sure she must be worn down to the knees and she was a smashing companion. We hear so much about the seamy side of life that we tend to overlook the good things. After all 'good deeds shine out like a light in a naughty world'.

I'm so looking forward to the Christmas Dinner that the St Helens Blind Society will be inviting me to as Dawn has offered to take me to that and is even providing me transport in her own car.

She doesn't seem to think that the company of an 81-year-old is a burden in any way to someone in her early 30s, bless her.

I could not manage my life without the help of the caring people I find around me and I remember them with love in my prayers.

MRS Jones, Haydock (address supplied).