Good Morning to you all, I am making reparations for yesterday when I was very late with this thread. It is a warm sunny autumn day and about 30°. My lunatic friend, who goes swimming all year round, tells me that the ocean is still 23°, it must be like swimming in soup!
Anyway, I have just returned from a visit to the optician for my annual check up and driving licence review. My right eye has gone bonkers or rather the cataract has, still not enough to get it repaired. I was very surprised as I hadn’t noticed anything. If I still had my truck licence I would have only just retained it.
I have to return in 6 months to recheck the macular and glaucoma again.
Ordered new glasses too while I was there as I had scratched the old ones,
You might be interested in the cost compared to the NHS. The eye test, Ocular Computerised Tomography, Digital retinal images and Computerised Perimetry plus some eye drops (apparently I have dry eyes) came to $170 but I will get $61.40 back from Medicare. The specs themselves will cost $719 that included titanium frame(??) varifocal lenses and UV tinting. I should pick them up next week. It is not a cheap business being short sighted.
My pupils are dilated so I won’t be going outside for a couple of hours until that wears off.
I have booked an appointment with my GP for the medical component to retain my licence. I booked it for next Thursday because I will be away for the beginning of the week visiting Pompeii
I might pay my “not good at maths” tax and buy a couple of lottery tickets this arvo.
Have a good Friday and look forward to the weekend.
I was thinking about all the members that no longer post . Some have passed away R.I,P and some just left the forum for other reasons. How times have changed with more overseas members than ever before. Now we get the chance to see their part of the world when photos/videos are added to the site.
Thinking back, one of the main changes has been, the lack of basic info upfront on folks logos. For a few years now, unless you go poking about in folks profiles, you don’t know if your addressing a Lady or a Gentleman, hailing from Telford or Timbuktu, what happened to the
The gas engineer is calling today to do the annual service of my central heating, so that’s a good excuse to just sit around, read my book, drink tea, and wait for him …
… although I seem to remember that last year it was a lady engineer
Good morning - We’ll be going to The Range this morning. Not a firing range but the name of a shop that tries to sell everything. They have interesting stuff there sometimes. Artificial plants for either side of the front door, gardening gloves, bleach and a mains block are on the list plus anything else we see that might be wanted.
This afternoon I’ll be continuing with unwanted clutter clearance from the sheds and loft. There is masses of unwanted bedding from when the family was younger and stayed here more often. All sorts of old technology too. Things of a diverse nature in general. I’m making a big heap of it at the bottom of the garden and then going to pay someone to dump it responsibly.
Morning all – another lovely sunny start to the day – we are promised temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 20c later!
When getting rid of that old bedding Mart see if the local animal rescue centre can use them - that’s where I got rid of my old blankets
The meeting with the girls yesterday went very well and we were the last to leave, as usual. They really are a lovely bunch
How’s this for “you couldn’t make it up”. The council of the nearby city are putting in “leaning rails” at traffic lights for cyclists! How cyclists have managed without something to lean on for all these years is obviously a mystery to the councillors. Actually, on second thoughts if it means cyclists will actually stop at traffic lights it might not be a bad idea!
More laundry today – taking advantage of the sunshine while we have it! Then this afternoon off to another coffee meeting at the local church (life is one big merry-go-round here!)
Good Morning From Foxy’s World…
A bit tired and rickerty on this mornings walk, still having to go out wrapped up because it still feels a bit cool early on despite the bright sunshine. Spent the day in the garden yesterday but I think I did a bit too much. Mrs Fox decided that the large pot with some kind of fancy grass in needed to be planted out in the garden. It didn’t want to come out and I spent an hour pulling and pushing, digging and poking, and trying to lift the pot to tip it out…It was punctuated by long rests in my chair to get my breath back. It eventually capitulated and flopped out onto the path…But I think the struggle took more energy than I wanted to give…Hence the rickerty walk this morning…
Sun’s well up now and it’s getting hotter by the minute so an easy day planned for today with just a car clean and plenty of rests in the chair…
Consider yourself lucky @Bruce I’m long sighted and I need bi-focal specs for driving and glancing down at the dash, specs for reading, specs for general purpose (Mid range for cooking and stuff) and super specs for close work in the workshop…I have a pair of specs in almost every room in the house…
Nothing stays the same @realspeed I just get comfortable with my life and everything changes (very confusing) Everyone needs a smartphone now or be connected to the net, no more petrol and diesel motors, Electric is the future, no doctors or dentists when you need one, people get offended so easily these days, what ever happened to ‘sticks and stones’ and Trump has put tariffs on everything…Not that it will make an ounce of difference to me…
World Wide Webb @spitfire anything goes…Says Roberta!
We’ve got a ‘Range’ warehouse here in South Yorkshire @mart it’s as big as a small African country…
Sounds like a great idea @SheilaP most riders can’t reach the floor because they have their seats too high.
It might be a good idea OGF but this is the same council that has cut funding to help children with special needs, want to cut bin collections to every 4 weeks, made driving and parking into the city so expensive and difficult and the main shopping centre is dead with many shops moving out
That’s the same here Sheila, an utter waste of public money…However…
Our council have spent the last two years disrupting traffic by putting in cycle lanes everywhere.
Not because we needed cycle lanes, but because the government granted them so much money to put in cycle lanes. It couldn’t be used anywhere else except for cycle lanes…
Perhaps the government in their wisdom have done the same with your council?
Recently in this village and others in the South Yorkshire district, have had all the speed limits reduced from 30mph to 20mph signs and painted bits of road must have cost thousands to install. I even sent in a letter of complaint when it was first mooted because nobody takes the slightest bit of notice and drive like maniacs through built up areas. They thanked me for my letter but said that the government are rolling it out across England and beyond. They probably got money for that little exercise too. Did we vote for this? Hell no!
We are approaching a council election also a mayoral one, but the same crowd will will still be here after May…Do you know why…? Because they field so many candidates that the vote will be split and spread thinly, so they only need a few dedicated labour councilors to all vote for the same incumbents to maintain their hold.
Please don’t get me started on cycle lanes! The city council have put in cycle lanes everywhere including some which go past the local hospital, narrowing the road and limiting cars to one lane each way, this has resulted in constant traffic jams with the stationary cars pumping out fumes outside the hospital!
People here waiting for a bus or leaving their drives have to cross the cycle lane with zooming cyclists flashing past…Sheila…how on earth can that be safe?.
Ah - I see your mistake there OGF - you expect Councillors and Council officials to have been gifted to common sense, but as we all know common sense isn’t so common!
I moved into my present address about 8 or 9 years ago, and because of the layout of the roads & one way systems I do most of my shopping on a retail park which has Sainsbury, Halfords, PC World. and a few other similarly well known chain stores
There is an access road, which incorporates a cycle path
I freely admit that I haven’t stood by that road 18 hours a day for the past 9 years, but nevertheless I have shopped there frequently, at all hours, from first thing, about 07-00, throughout the day, and last thing at night, about 9 o’clock
And during that time I cannot recall ever seeing a single cyclist
Hmmm … and yesterday I drove across town to visit a friend, and saw a couple of cyclists — who were ignoring the clearly marked cycle lane on the road, and cycling on the pavement
And while I’m having a grump, whilst I admit that I haven’t done a major survey, I have yet to meet anyone who has asked for their town centre to be pedestrionised
The Range (as mentioned earlier) didn’t have any artificial plants we liked. Drove to B&Q and bought a couple there. They were expensive but they only need buying once (unless someone nicks them). I’m in the process of putting them in place now. A photo when finished.
@mart I was looking at your photo and wondering what the little yellow flags in the bottom right were for. It took ages for me to work out that you hadn’t painted the edge of the front step white and that it was sunlight and the shadow of a fence. Doh! Talk about thick as a brick.
Just click on the avatar next to the post, usually tells you all that you need to know (except in your case)
