British Sign Language is beautiful. It is my favourite language and I so wish I could be better at it – although recently I passed my Level 2 exams (just).

It is expressive, emotional, visual and flowing. I say all this because I have been to two BSL events this week.

The first was performing on Saturday at the Rotary Charity Showcase on the steps of the Guildhall with the Good Vibrations Choir.

Two sets of five signed songs; and you could tell from the faces in the crowd that the signing was expressing something in the songs that words along cannot capture; even the Mayor was impressed.

The second event was a Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew, at the RSC Stratford-upon-Avon. I went there with some of my Deaf friends to a signed performance.

The play is meant to be a comedy but is one of the Bard’s troublesome plays involving torture, humiliation and oppression. But if you can get past that, the costumes and acting is outstanding.

But it got even better because on-stage there was the interpreter, in costume, acting with the others and signing the characters words.

Now this is some feat: I can hardly understand Shakespeare’s words when I hear them let alone translate them into BSL. But it was AMAZING.

I couldn’t take my eyes of the interpreter and the depth of meaning she was getting across. And my Deaf friends, along with many other Deaf people in the audience, were lapping it up; accessing the play in their own language.

And it made me think. If the Royal Shakespeare Theatre can do something as complicated as this, then it surely isn’t beyond the wit of other organisations, hospitals, churches, shops, to do the same.

A little BSL goes a long way.

I can honestly say that BSL has changed my life and outlook, as well as introducing me to new friends.

So come on, Worcester, let’s make all that we do accessible to Deaf people, and all those who have a level of disability.

Surely the Faithful City can be faithful to all its residents.