That is interesting about the 3 birds @dogslifeGood morning @gennepher. Interesting to hear about your new arrival. A couple of days ago I had 3 similar birds arrive together in my garden. The right shape and colour of male blackbirds but with black beaks. Also unusual to see 3 together so wondered if they were the young of one family. One has been back again today several times using the tall part of the garden wall as a look-out post. Enjoy your day and keep warm.
All the best with thatMy day today did not go as planned, I intended staying at home all day today.
An email came through at 9: 30 from Specsavers saying it was time I arranged my yearly appointment. So I went online to making appointment and there was one today at 10:45 and I I'm not even dressed I'm not even washed. But there were no more new appointments until the new year. So I'm thinking should I get dressed quickly not even going to have time for a shower, and just go. Anyway I booked the 10:45 slot and I got out as quick as I could and I made it with literally seconds to spare.
I just had the gut feeling I should go.
Everything seems to be going fine at the appointment, the OCT scan was perfect.
Then the sight test the way they do these things now. Left eye is apparently much better than last year, it has improved a lot. But not the right eye my right eye is usually a bit blurred. I remember it was blurred as usual on the eye test last year and I had difficulty reading some of the letters in my right eye but the optician didn't say there was any particular problems with my right eye last year, and said that the prescription was the same so I didn't change my varifocals last year.
This year I couldn't make out any of the letters with my right eye, but the opticians room was too warm for me and I kept steaming up the the glass thingy I was looking through. And my eyes felt very dry in that heat. The optician cleaned the condensation off the glass and then I could make out some of the letters.
It was then she said I had cataracts in my right eye.
And I have to go to an appointment next week for it to be assessed. And then there is a 2 year waiting list for the cataract operation...
And on the High Street when I came out of the opticians I took my glasses off, shut my not so good eye and could read car number plates, appropriate distance absolutely no problem. Then shut my good eye and I could still just read number plates, appropriate distance, with my not so good eye.
Am I in denial what the female optician said about cataracts in my right eye or what?
Anyway I'm back home now I'm sitting in my bedroom looking (without my glasses) alternatively through my good left eye and then my right eye, and my slightly blurred right eye view doesn't look any much different to me than than it has for a long time.
I can see better without my glasses using just my right eye. I can read words with my right eye without my glasses, they're a little blurred but not too bad.
Anyway, I have a new prescription for varifocals, but the glasses won't be ready for a couple of weeks...
The optician, who I've never seen before, seem to think that these cataracts had happened rather rapidly. But I am looking around my bedroom with my not so good right eye (with no glasses on) and I can see relatively clearly and I can read the notices on my boxes so I'm just wondering. What happened at the opticians when I couldn't see those letters clearly with my right eye.
Presumably I might get some more answers when I'm examined properly for the cataracts next week.
I am not panicking (yet).
The optician said the left eye vision was quite a lot improved from last year, and that the left eye improvement was compensating for my poor right eye ...
I have never heard of that before.
I am going to have my nap I never got this morning. I didn't get back until mid afternoon, I did a couple of messages so that I didn't have to go out tomorrow...
I don't know if there's anything to worry about yet or not. I keep looking around my bedroom with my good left eye shut and my bad right eye open and I can't see that everything looks any different than usual, but it was just I couldn't read those letters at the opticians, but the equipment kept steaming up because the heating was far too hot in there.
I suppose I'll find out at this appointment next week if there is a problem or not.
Thank you @ianpspursGood morning all from a cold L.A. No accurate idea of fbg as I didn't swipe (right or left) but it was 5.6 at 9.21 so meh..Google swipe right by Forest Blakk. It picks up the no such thing as an average child and If you are feeling old it amplifies how much more complex teenage/adolescent/single lives are now. @lindisfel hug for memories of your dad, winner for how you kept warm and the sap rising reference - very psalm 29 v 1.. @gennepher thanks for sharing the sketch. The term obliging was a euphemism for a certain type of young lady - usually high bred - among my circle. Apparently we are all living/have lived as extras in the film Saltburn - that journo was married to Baron Sackville and went to Oxford so an interesting take I think C S Lewis is more on point (TLDR?), he usually is for me. So today? Can Spurs muster some centre backs? can I park my preconceptions and just judge leg of lamb as it is today or just smile and wave as the gels say how wonderful it was? Yes, I'm blessed to have the dilemma. Enjoy your day and count your blessings. Have a song - lyrics for you Genn
Thank you @gennepher - this it taking some timeDramatic perspective in Art Bit @dunelm
Hope your cough abates soon @dunelmGood morning everyone from what looks to be a dry day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.4 this morning - must have been a carb light day when measured against the feather of Ma'at. Just got off a video call with my mother who is off to a tea party this afternoon. Some fund raiser. She is in charge of the tombola today and will be going to the venue on her red scooter and identifying as Red Dalek. Might get out for a walk today as my cough is subsiding although it does make the occasional unannounced appearance. Art bit, something else. Have a pleasant valley Sunday if you can. I have already consumed koffy so time to do a few exercises and then ponder the ingredients for some soup.
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I wear varifocals all the time except for garden wear. Less dizzy.My day today did not go as planned, I intended staying at home all day today.
An email came through at 9: 30 from Specsavers saying it was time I arranged my yearly appointment. So I went online to making appointment and there was one today at 10:45 and I I'm not even dressed I'm not even washed. But there were no more new appointments until the new year. So I'm thinking should I get dressed quickly not even going to have time for a shower, and just go. Anyway I booked the 10:45 slot and I got out as quick as I could and I made it with literally seconds to spare.
I just had the gut feeling I should go.
Everything seems to be going fine at the appointment, the OCT scan was perfect.
Then the sight test the way they do these things now. Left eye is apparently much better than last year, it has improved a lot. But not the right eye my right eye is usually a bit blurred. I remember it was blurred as usual on the eye test last year and I had difficulty reading some of the letters in my right eye but the optician didn't say there was any particular problems with my right eye last year, and said that the prescription was the same so I didn't change my varifocals last year.
This year I couldn't make out any of the letters with my right eye, but the opticians room was too warm for me and I kept steaming up the the glass thingy I was looking through. And my eyes felt very dry in that heat. The optician cleaned the condensation off the glass and then I could make out some of the letters.
It was then she said I had cataracts in my right eye.
And I have to go to an appointment next week for it to be assessed. And then there is a 2 year waiting list for the cataract operation...
And on the High Street when I came out of the opticians I took my glasses off, shut my not so good eye and could read car number plates, appropriate distance absolutely no problem. Then shut my good eye and I could still just read number plates, appropriate distance, with my not so good eye.
Am I in denial what the female optician said about cataracts in my right eye or what?
Anyway I'm back home now I'm sitting in my bedroom looking (without my glasses) alternatively through my good left eye and then my right eye, and my slightly blurred right eye view doesn't look any much different to me than than it has for a long time.
I can see better without my glasses using just my right eye. I can read words with my right eye without my glasses, they're a little blurred but not too bad.
Anyway, I have a new prescription for varifocals, but the glasses won't be ready for a couple of weeks...
The optician, who I've never seen before, seem to think that these cataracts had happened rather rapidly. But I am looking around my bedroom with my not so good right eye (with no glasses on) and I can see relatively clearly and I can read the notices on my boxes so I'm just wondering. What happened at the opticians when I couldn't see those letters clearly with my right eye.
Presumably I might get some more answers when I'm examined properly for the cataracts next week.
I am not panicking (yet).
The optician said the left eye vision was quite a lot improved from last year, and that the left eye improvement was compensating for my poor right eye ...
I have never heard of that before.
I am going to have my nap I never got this morning. I didn't get back until mid afternoon, I did a couple of messages so that I didn't have to go out tomorrow...
I don't know if there's anything to worry about yet or not. I keep looking around my bedroom with my good left eye shut and my bad right eye open and I can't see that everything looks any different than usual, but it was just I couldn't read those letters at the opticians, but the equipment kept steaming up because the heating was far too hot in there.
I suppose I'll find out at this appointment next week if there is a problem or not.
You are welcome. Libre is fine my transit system was over active but seems to have worn itself out. Slept quite a bit - could that leg of lamb be to blame?Thank you @ianpspurs
Sorry your Libre is playing up...
Thank you for that information @dogslifeGood morning all. fbs 7.6. Further to the posts about blackbirds, I have just found this:
Generally speaking, the resident UK Blackbird develop the distinctive orange-yellow beak and eye-ring around the first year of their life. In contrast, Blackbirds from other parts of Europe are believed not to develop their orange-yellow beak and eye-ring until the second year of their lives. Seeing a blackbird in your garden with a black beak and eye-ring is therefore likely to be a first-year male blackbird, perhaps a winter visitor from Europe.
Keep warm folks.
Ah, your post gives me some hope @Lamont DI wear varifocals all the time except for garden wear. Less dizzy.
I needed reading glasses since early forties, but my distance had always been perfect.
It wasn't until around my mid fifties at my opticians, that the eye test concluded I needed distance as well as reading.
So I used separate glasses, which I got use to.
Until I started on my last job about ten years ago. When I was swapping glasses every five seconds doing the work or just leaving my readers on. Which wasn't good, when I was squinting in the distance.
I got an offer on my next visit to the opticians, have had them for about seven years ish.
A visit in the end of the pandemic, the optician told me two things, one was I might need an appointment for cataracts, the other was for more suitable and more expensive varifocals.
I said I would think about it. I didn't because I got the same spiel about not bad enough and long waiting lists.
I returned for my next screening this year and had the necessary, he told me, no cataracts and the specs are fine, and my eyes on distance have improved. Go figure? Same guy!
So I went to Specsavers for a check and they verified everything my opticians had said but added they had more stylised frames, meaning a vanity or fashionable pair! I wasn't playing.
Varifocals are expensive, you do need to be certain they are right for you. And they do take a week or so to get used to them. Just be careful!
But they are very good, if you need them!
Yes, I agree, shoulder of Iamb is so much better than leg of lambThe gels had a different take on the meat but all here agree shoulder is better. Who knew?
Thank you @ianpspurs . I am really happy with fbg at the moment. It was really good to chill out.good idea to go early and chill out - great fbg.
Great news @AnnbMy winter fuel payment from the DWP has arrived in my bank account. So I can pay for the oil that I bought a couple of weeks ago.
Hope your bid wins @AnnbYears ago, when she injured her spine as an outdoor pursuits instructor, DIL bought a 2nd hand wheelchair. She used it again when Em was nearly born but in the interim, she loaned it to Tom, until he got his own from the NHS (that had to go back when he died). Recently I've been using it and have become fairly dependent on it to get anywhere which requires walking more than 20 yards. Now that she has more trouble with her spine, and is to have surgery on it, she needs her wheelchair back, so I've been looking for a 2nd hand one on the internet. Neil has found a suitable one on Ebay and we have put an offer in on it. Decision time is tomorrow morning. We'll see how that goes. Amazon have them 2nd hand but this one looks better for the same price.
The weather is overcast but without wind so, perhaps DIL and Em's big sister (escort) will manage to get away on the ferry later today.
I do have a mobility scooter but find it difficult to get it in and out of the car boot without help is does disassemble but some of the sections are quite heavy and take up quite a bit of room so I have ordered a lightweight cheapish folding wheelchair for when the scooter is not suitable Keiran is a bit upset with me he thinks I’m giving up but that’s not true I will use it when needed but walk when I can.Years ago, when she injured her spine as an outdoor pursuits instructor, DIL bought a 2nd hand wheelchair. She used it again when Em was nearly born but in the interim, she loaned it to Tom, until he got his own from the NHS (that had to go back when he died). Recently I've been using it and have become fairly dependent on it to get anywhere which requires walking more than 20 yards. Now that she has more trouble with her spine, and is to have surgery on it, she needs her wheelchair back, so I've been looking for a 2nd hand one on the internet. Neil has found a suitable one on Ebay and we have put an offer in on it. Decision time is tomorrow morning. We'll see how that goes. Amazon have them 2nd hand but this one looks better for the same price.
The weather is overcast but without wind so, perhaps DIL and Em's big sister (escort) will manage to get away on the ferry later today.
I hope your private clinic is good, I finished up having sparmedica messing up my last right cateract so badly I had to have it done again by a superb private surgeon in Cumbria, it cost me £3000 but it was worth every penny. I now have excellent vision in both eyes. Better than most mid eighty year olds. I did need lazer treatment on the capsule but that is normal after working on the capsule to remove the torn lens put in by the private medical company.@gennepher
A while ago I had cataracts in both eyes the NHS waiting list was quite long but the NHS funded treatment at a private clinic which shortened the waiting time considerably though they only financed one cataract so now only have a cataract in my left eye.
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