I hate the bit when they slot different lenses in in front of your eyes and ask if it's "better with this or this", because sometimes the difference is so tiny it's very hard to tell. Or is that just me, because my eyes are a bit rubbish?
As you get closer to the right prescription, they do get very similar, and I think the optician sometimes deliberately overshoots.
We have some pleasantly warm and sunny weather. I have a very slight cold which is really nothing much but just enough to make me completely apathetic about doing anything.
I did finally drag myself out to do the Shopp Ing and changed my bed and put the washer on. I also schlepped to the DIY store to get some stuff to shampoo my grubby sofa. It's going to take a whole lot more get up and go for me to actually use it though.
Or is that just me, because my eyes are a bit rubbish?
Presumably your (our) eyes are a bit rubbish, otherwise they wouldn't keep trying different lenses.
And no, you are not the only one who can't make out which is 'better'
Currently I have one post-cataract eye that I can use without glasses for reading/close work but is useless for seeing anything more than arms length away. One lens, the one for that eye, has been changed in my 'old' glasses to give me distance sight, but now I am constantly putting the glasses off and on - and when I move away from where I had them off I forget to put them back on until I am halfway across the room. It drives me mad.
I guess my eyes are more than a bit rubbish.
I can't wait for the call to have the other cataract done!
I am constantly putting the glasses off and on - and when I move away from where I had them off I forget to put them back on until I am halfway across the room. It drives me mad.
Last night I attended a choir committee meeting on Teams. Two failed attempts to join were eventually resolved. I had vowed not to join whilst the current Chair is in post and my reasons were sound. It was all so tedious. Rehashing old points, reversing previous decisions without good reason. The secretary had to ask three times which point of the agenda we were under. I rarely speak but the Chair listens to me with respect, and immediately took up one of my suggestions without further discussion, so my time was not entirely wasted.
I just hope she actions all she promised to do at rehearsal this evening.
Huh. Meetings - the practical alternative to Doing Stuff...
A grey and sometimes drizzly day in Arkland The Mild, but They say it will be Sun-Shiny this afternoon. If They are right, I may do a last little bit of Paint Ing on the deck, to tidy up the area around the Chimney - it gets a bit dirty and sooty sometimes, so will be done in Black rather than Red Oxide.
The Chimney-Sweep Ing has been successful (so far), and the Dragon is simmering away nicely. The Auncient Pumpe that sends hot water around the central heating pipes (I have two, yes two! radiators) has also been coaxed into action, so now (of course) the weather will turn very warm again. Mind you, the nights and mornings have been quite chilly these last few days, and, being somewhat less mobile than I once was, I'm not as able to move about to get warm as some people may be.
Tess Coe has been visited, and everything on the list (written, not mental ) has been duly purchased. I picked up a bag of *Heat Logs*, which the blurb says are a substitute for wood or peat. They're made of 100% natural food waste, and the two being consumed by the Dragon at the moment are certainly increasing the temperature of the Oven. The price is about the same as for a bag of *proper* kiln-dried Logs, but I don't know yet if the firm which supplies Arkland with Coal (and some Logs) sells them. Some research is called for...
Lunch will be SALMON FILLETS (because eat-by date) and CHIPS.
I'm having a day catching up with myself. I've swapped my summer clothes for my winter ones, so see the temperature rise in the East Midlands over the next few days, started to sort out the chili plants in the greenhouse and I'm about to catch up with emails.
I have a meeting to go to tonight. If it finishes early I might go on to my writing group, but I'm still rather lacking in energy so probably not.
I might investigate *Heat Logs*, we need to buy some more fuel for our wood burning stove, not that we use it very often.
*Heat Logs* are made by ZIP (the fire-lighter people), and retail at Tess Coe for £6.50 for a bag of eight. Not especially economical, I think, as they are burning through quite quickly in the Dragon - a smaller wood-burner might allow them to last longer!
Google *heat logs* and there are several firms offering such things, but I'm not sure how many make them from food waste - mostly, they're compressed wood.
I accidently left the washing out overnight but that shouldn’t have been a problem as it was going to be sunny today. But when I went outside at 9am there was thick cloud and they had been rained on. This was an omen for the rest of the day.
A very busy few days as my students start next Saturday and the university, for various reasons, has allocated some tutor groups later than usual. So a heap of admin and comms arrived on my desk yesterday and today, as well as a scheduled briefing this afternoon. And a project which I signed up to review last November decided on Monday that they would send us the draft and could they have our feedback in one week. Not the most convenient time of the year for tutors to receive extra work.
Mr Heavenly is out with a friend tonight and I might order myself a takeaway.
Another mild day in West Lothian; it was 15° when I woke at 7 o'clock, which is rather ridiculous for the beginning of October.
Work should have been a doddle today, as all the solicitors were off to a jolly conference in Edinburgh, but, predictably, J and B had left a couple of fairly mammoth voice files to be dealt with ...
Supper was pasta with prawns and greenery, because use-by date of said greenery (which may or may not have been yesterday). It was jolly nice all the same.
Greenery has a best before date, not a use by date. It's to do with stock control, not an instruction to purchasers. Destruction of perfectly good food that has past this mostly arbitrary marker is therefore madness.
Mr F's birthday, so have been on a wide circuit to acquire culinary treats. Bus to friends and drop off large bag of apples (Hawthorndens from the garden), posh fishmonger for scallops, then hike over to this side of town, acquire raspberries in Tesco, on to butcher for fillet steak for Tounedos. Got heavily rained on the last few hundred yards.
Later, when it stops, I need to take newly-arrived plants to the garden where they can practice acclimatising during Storm Amy.
My wife has been feeling a little peaky (as they say) this week. We ran a Covid test and it came out positive - ouch! So far it is only a mild bout and she's not in bed. I hope I don't get it as I have to lead Harvest Thanksgiving on Sunday. I feel fine at the moment: I swam this morning, and I've just cut the lawn.
Oh dear. I hope Mrs BT soon recovers, and that you yourself escape unscathed. Do you have Others who could officiate at church if need be?
A chilly night, followed by a mild but cloudy day in Arkland the Grey - not much Sun-Shine, despite what They forecast.
Another Fishy Lunch - SALMON FISH CAKES - much needed after a busy couple of hours doing the last scheduled bit of Paint Ing, though I may do some more if the weather remains calm and mild...
Nice wander up Win Hill and a sossy roll and coffee in the Angler's Rest afterwards. I was a Good Boy and went for the café bit rather than the pub bit.
Got in all the remaining tomatoes yesterday, and have now tucked them up in a couple of boxes to ripen indoors. Cut the stems of some of the parent plants and bagged them up for the recycling. More tomorrow.
Pilchards on toast for lunch. We had several cans in store when they started vanishing from the shops, and have been eking them out since. Now down to two cans.
Chicken roasting in the oven for tonight's dinner - and for several other meals over the w/e.
Mild and beginning to get a bit windy; the trees are practising for whatever dance they've got planned courtesy of Storm Amy.
A Chinese takeaway has been consumed for supper; there's one of my boss's jazz/folk/whatever concerts at St Pete's this evening, and I didn't want to have to faff about cooking. As it's a bring-a-bottle thing, I have a small bottle of BEER which I'll take; the current wine bottle in the fridge is IIRC nearly empty, and anyway, I'm happy enough to drink beer from the bottle.
I had my usual Thursday of lip reading and bookshop shift today. In between the two I met up with my husband for lunch in one of our favourite cafes/bars in town where they have slightly tweaked the menu. The vegan tapas options look really good so I think next time we want to go out in the evening for food we'll give it a whirl.
At the moment I'm trialling some hearing aids having spent two weeks considering some others. These are the top of the range AI enabled ones, but I think I prefer the others as they were somewhat smaller. These aren't large as such, just fat, and don't fit that well behind my ears, specially when I have my reading glasses on. I have another week of the trial to go so I might change my mind. To help me make up my mind I've been looking at videos and reading articles about the pros and cons of both models. I now expect to be inundated with Facebook posts about aids.
I really ought to go and research Marshal McLuhan for my philosophy group tomorrow but I fear my brain has deserted me.
Usual Thursday yoga here, and I reminded myself that I am not paid to work 5 days a week so I didn’t do any work. Instead I did the footnotes for the first assignment on my own studies.
Out at church group this evening where we discussed last week’s sermon on spending time with God.
Give folk a little space. I didn't read about it until late yesterday (I only check the news - briefly - of a morning). Nor would my first reaction be to rush into public commentary.
I had a poor nights sleep, not helped by my husband waking me up early as we had the kitchen fitter coming to replace the bit of skirting board damaged when the dishwasher leaked. He admitted later that I didn't really need to be up. The fitter came and sorted it all out in about ten minutes which was brilliant service. I really hope we don't need to call them again.
Feeling crap, and in desperate need of some working brain cells I decided not to go to my philosophy group. Instead I went into town to do a bit of shopping, stopping to chat to various people as I went round. The rest of the day I don't intend to do much.
Give folk a little space. I didn't read about it until late yesterday (I only check the news - briefly - of a morning). Nor would my first reaction be to rush into public commentary.
My thoughts exactly.
A grey and windy day in Arkland the Gusty (are we being visited by Storm Aggie, or whatever it's called?). Shopp Ing is called for, but a trip to Tess Coe may well fall foul of roadworks on the bridge linking two parts of Our Town.
I could go to the village Co-Op, but struggling round its narrow aisles, trying to manage two crutches and a basket, is rather a pain (literally). Plan A is to risk the traffic, Plan B is to see if I can park close to another, and larger, Co-Op a couple of miles away.
@Sarasa - your plan for a simpler day is a good example of sensible philosophy! I hope you feel better soon.
Also feeling tired after a week of short nights and having to be up and ready to open the door to the decorator and finally, today, the carpet people. I can take my time about furnishing the room now. So pleased to have reached this stage, even if it has taken two and a half years ( since Mr P died). It was his study.
Speaking of Co-ops, the one in a nearby village was rammed by a JCB type vehicle in the night and the ATM removed.
Well, I succeeded in reaching Ultima Thule aka Tess Coe (the road-works on the Bridge having been completed - in double-quick time, it seems), and found that one of the entrances to the store was closed, with window/door boarded up. Nowhere near the ATM, so I suspect Roy Bacer, or one of his mates, had taken the corner at the end of the car park rather badly...
Apropos PILCHARDS, I learn (thanks to Professor Google) that these are, in fact, simply large SARDINES. There has been a shortage of Sardines, large and small, due to various factors (Professor Google will tell you what they are), but, happily, they are back on the shelves. Mostly, they seem to be sans Tomato Sauce, except for those being marketed by Glenryck, so there may now perhaps be a shortage of Tomatoes (sp?), Sauce For The Making Of...
They must be waiting for the little Sardines to grow up, before PILCHARDS return to assuage the hunger of impatient pescatarians.
Feeling much better after a three hour sleep this afternoon. The fact that it very wet and windy outside really made snuggling up in bed a very attractive option.
I hope shipmates to the north and east are ok if the weather from Storm Amy is this horrid this far east and south.
The forecast was for Storm Amy to keep mostly to the north of the UK, but Wit and Wendy Weather is occurring this far south - nowhere near as bad, though.
On returning from Tess Coe, I managed to drop a bag of Shopp Ing and my right-hand Crutch into the Mud, whilst negotiating the gangplank onto the deck of the Ark. Happily, the Rain was easing at the time, and, with the help of my old right-hand crutch and an extendable paint-roller handle (!), I managed to retrieve everything safely. I have to confess that several Norty Wurds were uttered, though.
Glad to hear you're feeling better, Sarasa - sleep is indeed a great healer!
Very blustrous and intermittently wet here, but still Not Cold - I suppose that's because it's a tropical storm, and coming from Warmer Parts.
I had a busy day, made all the more so because I had to leave early to get my new contact lenses checked (verdict: they're rubbish). Back home with my old ones, with the prospect of yet another appointment in a week or two. 🙄
I shall sally forth to the chippy later for pescatarian sustenance.
Very wild here. We clamped the cover to our garden furniture to stop the cover blowing off. It blew off, taking two of our chairs with it....
Chairs now in the garage and we have clamped the cover to the table, in the hope that the smaller area will be less susceptible to the wind.
The neighbour that backs onto us diagonally is about to lose some of her fence panels. I've sent a message, which she hasn't seen, and tried phoning, but I seem to have an old number for her. Trying to decide whether I should walk round (i.e. walk to the end of our street, up another street, then along her street to her house) or whether it's pointless because there's nothing she can do in this weather anyway.
Planned a nice west coast weekend with the daughter (Cathskitten) as she is in Scotland having been bridesmaiding. Now in Oban where the word gusty is somewhat weak and lacking to describe the weather. Not going to Mull tomorrow after all, I think…
Hoo boy, the weather is wild here. The shopping was delivered early so we can start to relax into the weekend. Child 1 is cooking dinner tonight so I am half watching TV with child 2 and half reading some Terry Pratchett.
We have been working to replacing our back fence panels but I think we might need to give it a miss this weekend!
Grey and wet here and the wind has picked up. A productive day and I got everything completed, including the random project, ready for term starting tomorrow.
Tea was red Thai beef curry followed a chelsea bun. Mr Heavenly is braving the rain and meeting some local dads for a drink whereas I have sensibly decided to stay at home with a glass of red wine.
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And there was me thinking 'she needs that flood warden training'!
As you get closer to the right prescription, they do get very similar, and I think the optician sometimes deliberately overshoots.
It certainly is for me.
I did finally drag myself out to do the Shopp Ing and changed my bed and put the washer on. I also schlepped to the DIY store to get some stuff to shampoo my grubby sofa. It's going to take a whole lot more get up and go for me to actually use it though.
And no, you are not the only one who can't make out which is 'better'
Currently I have one post-cataract eye that I can use without glasses for reading/close work but is useless for seeing anything more than arms length away. One lens, the one for that eye, has been changed in my 'old' glasses to give me distance sight, but now I am constantly putting the glasses off and on - and when I move away from where I had them off I forget to put them back on until I am halfway across the room. It drives me mad.
I guess my eyes are more than a bit rubbish.
I can't wait for the call to have the other cataract done!
I just hope she actions all she promised to do at rehearsal this evening.
A grey and sometimes drizzly day in Arkland The Mild, but They say it will be Sun-Shiny this afternoon. If They are right, I may do a last little bit of Paint Ing on the deck, to tidy up the area around the Chimney - it gets a bit dirty and sooty sometimes, so will be done in Black rather than Red Oxide.
The Chimney-Sweep Ing has been successful (so far), and the Dragon is simmering away nicely. The Auncient Pumpe that sends hot water around the central heating pipes (I have two, yes two! radiators) has also been coaxed into action, so now (of course) the weather will turn very warm again. Mind you, the nights and mornings have been quite chilly these last few days, and, being somewhat less mobile than I once was, I'm not as able to move about to get warm as some people may be.
Tess Coe has been visited, and everything on the list (written, not mental
Lunch will be SALMON FILLETS (because eat-by date) and CHIPS.
I have a meeting to go to tonight. If it finishes early I might go on to my writing group, but I'm still rather lacking in energy so probably not.
I might investigate *Heat Logs*, we need to buy some more fuel for our wood burning stove, not that we use it very often.
Google *heat logs* and there are several firms offering such things, but I'm not sure how many make them from food waste - mostly, they're compressed wood.
A very busy few days as my students start next Saturday and the university, for various reasons, has allocated some tutor groups later than usual. So a heap of admin and comms arrived on my desk yesterday and today, as well as a scheduled briefing this afternoon. And a project which I signed up to review last November decided on Monday that they would send us the draft and could they have our feedback in one week. Not the most convenient time of the year for tutors to receive extra work.
Mr Heavenly is out with a friend tonight and I might order myself a takeaway.
Work should have been a doddle today, as all the solicitors were off to a jolly conference in Edinburgh, but, predictably, J and B had left a couple of fairly mammoth voice files to be dealt with ...
Supper was pasta with prawns and greenery, because use-by date of said greenery (which may or may not have been yesterday). It was jolly nice all the same.
Later, when it stops, I need to take newly-arrived plants to the garden where they can practice acclimatising during Storm Amy.
A chilly night, followed by a mild but cloudy day in Arkland the Grey - not much Sun-Shine, despite what They forecast.
Another Fishy Lunch - SALMON FISH CAKES - much needed after a busy couple of hours doing the last scheduled bit of Paint Ing, though I may do some more if the weather remains calm and mild...
ETA:
I was wondering if perhaps elders or deacons could take over in case of need?
Pilchards on toast for lunch. We had several cans in store when they started vanishing from the shops, and have been eking them out since. Now down to two cans.
Chicken roasting in the oven for tonight's dinner - and for several other meals over the w/e.
They'd have to! (It has happened before, but not at Harvest).
Please note the post above - @Roseofsharon still has TWO cans of pilchards!
Mild and beginning to get a bit windy; the trees are practising for whatever dance they've got planned courtesy of Storm Amy.
A Chinese takeaway has been consumed for supper; there's one of my boss's jazz/folk/whatever concerts at St Pete's this evening, and I didn't want to have to faff about cooking. As it's a bring-a-bottle thing, I have a small bottle of BEER which I'll take; the current wine bottle in the fridge is IIRC nearly empty, and anyway, I'm happy enough to drink beer from the bottle.
At the moment I'm trialling some hearing aids having spent two weeks considering some others. These are the top of the range AI enabled ones, but I think I prefer the others as they were somewhat smaller. These aren't large as such, just fat, and don't fit that well behind my ears, specially when I have my reading glasses on. I have another week of the trial to go so I might change my mind. To help me make up my mind I've been looking at videos and reading articles about the pros and cons of both models. I now expect to be inundated with Facebook posts about aids.
I really ought to go and research Marshal McLuhan for my philosophy group tomorrow but I fear my brain has deserted me.
Out at church group this evening where we discussed last week’s sermon on spending time with God.
Prayers for those killed at the synagogue in Manchester yesterday on Yom Kippur. And all those who mourn.
Blame my distress for my oversight.
A busy couple of days ahead and at the weekend we'll be celebrating the GrandNenling's birthday. Not sure where the last two years went...
Feeling crap, and in desperate need of some working brain cells I decided not to go to my philosophy group. Instead I went into town to do a bit of shopping, stopping to chat to various people as I went round. The rest of the day I don't intend to do much.
My thoughts exactly.
A grey and windy day in Arkland the Gusty (are we being visited by Storm Aggie, or whatever it's called?). Shopp Ing is called for, but a trip to Tess Coe may well fall foul of roadworks on the bridge linking two parts of Our Town.
I could go to the village Co-Op, but struggling round its narrow aisles, trying to manage two crutches and a basket, is rather a pain (literally). Plan A is to risk the traffic, Plan B is to see if I can park close to another, and larger, Co-Op a couple of miles away.
@Sarasa - your plan for a simpler day is a good example of sensible philosophy! I hope you feel better soon.
Speaking of Co-ops, the one in a nearby village was rammed by a JCB type vehicle in the night and the ATM removed.
Apropos PILCHARDS, I learn (thanks to Professor Google) that these are, in fact, simply large SARDINES. There has been a shortage of Sardines, large and small, due to various factors (Professor Google will tell you what they are), but, happily, they are back on the shelves. Mostly, they seem to be sans Tomato Sauce, except for those being marketed by Glenryck, so there may now perhaps be a shortage of Tomatoes (sp?), Sauce For The Making Of...
They must be waiting for the little Sardines to grow up, before PILCHARDS return to assuage the hunger of impatient pescatarians.
I hope shipmates to the north and east are ok if the weather from Storm Amy is this horrid this far east and south.
On returning from Tess Coe, I managed to drop a bag of Shopp Ing and my right-hand Crutch into the Mud, whilst negotiating the gangplank onto the deck of the Ark. Happily, the Rain was easing at the time, and, with the help of my old right-hand crutch and an extendable paint-roller handle (!), I managed to retrieve everything safely. I have to confess that several Norty Wurds were uttered, though.
Very blustrous and intermittently wet here, but still Not Cold - I suppose that's because it's a tropical storm, and coming from Warmer Parts.
I had a busy day, made all the more so because I had to leave early to get my new contact lenses checked (verdict: they're rubbish). Back home with my old ones, with the prospect of yet another appointment in a week or two. 🙄
I shall sally forth to the chippy later for pescatarian sustenance.
BF - I thought "Ultima Thule" meant Shetland ...
Ultima Thule to this Southron is somewhere near Milton Keynes...
Chairs now in the garage and we have clamped the cover to the table, in the hope that the smaller area will be less susceptible to the wind.
The neighbour that backs onto us diagonally is about to lose some of her fence panels. I've sent a message, which she hasn't seen, and tried phoning, but I seem to have an old number for her. Trying to decide whether I should walk round (i.e. walk to the end of our street, up another street, then along her street to her house) or whether it's pointless because there's nothing she can do in this weather anyway.
We have been working to replacing our back fence panels but I think we might need to give it a miss this weekend!
50mph gusts forecast for tomorrow - 40mph-ish at the moment. I hope those of you in even windier parts all manage to stay safe.
Meanwhile, I'm glad the Dragon is simmering nicely, and so the saloon of the Ark is cosy. A SOSSIDGE SANWIDGE is called for, I think.
I'm pleased the Ark is getting nice and cosy. A sausage sandwich sounds great, but one must ask what colour sauce you add.
OTOH, as it's Friday, I might add MUSTARD instead.
Tea was red Thai beef curry followed a chelsea bun. Mr Heavenly is braving the rain and meeting some local dads for a drink whereas I have sensibly decided to stay at home with a glass of red wine.
The imminent arrival of company has resulted in the sofa being shampooed. Still feeling a bit generally apathetic though.