Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Last Hussar]

And all true.

[Techno]

And he's not a happy bunny this morning, 'cos the arm on his 'best' glasses has just broken again.

Not even Araldite lasts very long.

PLEASE let the opticians be open tomorrow, so I can finally sort a new arm for them !

Cheers - Mr trying to type anything out with the glasses I've got on, is a pain.......At least they're OK for long distance.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Some peps never stop complaining.   

[Techno]

You were doing SO well...up until the last few words, Nobby.

(And to think I so nearly deliberately deleted one of your posts yesterday.....(The one you replaced 'cos you'd 'lost' the original)....And being nice, I didn't.
I really should have, just to see your reaction.

Cheers - Phil 

[fsn]

You were doing SO well...up until the last few words, Nobby.

Well, as has been observed by many ladies of Runcorn, I just couldn't keep it up. 

(And to think I so nearly deliberately deleted one of your posts yesterday.....(The one you replaced 'cos you'd 'lost' the original)....And being nice, I didn't.
I really should have, just to see your reaction.

[fsn]

And he's not a happy bunny this morning, 'cos the arm on his 'best' glasses has just broken again.

Not that I'm paranoid, but I have my downstairs glasses, my 2nd downstairs glasses, my upstairs glasses, my wargames room glasses, my painting glasses, my work glasses, my spare work glasses, my emergency work glasses, and my real emergency glasses which I keep with my emergency glasses repair kit. 

Hope the optician is open and you get sorted.

I really started to value my eyesight when I started to lose it.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hope it's sorted soon Phil, otherwise you won't be able to read the sheet music for Flight of The Bumblebee

[Techno]

Hope it's sorted soon Phil,

Same here, Will.

I 'repaired' the 'best/newest' pair this morning.....before I did a shop....and they're still holding.

I have umpteen pairs of 'spares'.....Most of which are a damn sight better than nothing at all.
I recently found a pair that must have been 'newer' than what I was regarding as my last 'old ones'....Go figure.....(Those last 'old ones', I can see perfectly well enough through  the left lens......The right....Well....I tend to shut my right eye so I can see clearly.)

I think the odd pair that are (for now) my reserve pair.....I must have given up on, because the lenses are much smaller..than 'wot I like'.

The problem with being as short sighted as I am......If I have glass lenses....they're as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle....and drag the frames down my nose, all the time.
This is why I always wear a 'sport's band,' to keep the sods in place.
If I cut down the weight by having plastic lenses.....They're too prone to getting scratched.

Hey Ho !

Cheers - Phil (Rambling away, as usual. )

[FierceKitty]

Stick on the broken bit with superglue, then wrap it in a strip of muslin soaked in epoxy. You'll look a total nerd, but it should hold.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But will it removable ?

[FierceKitty]

I hope Phil will let it set before he puts it on.

[Techno]

 

It's almost like being back to my early years in 'secondary' school.

I was forever snapping/bending the plastic arms on my 'specs'.....and doing the 'nerdy thing' with evo-stick and 'sticky backed plastic'.
I DO remember that I had a couple of pairs of 'specs' that had 'windscreen' type glass.....So they would shatter, rather than splinter.......safe, for example, if I got a cricket ball in the face.

THOSE were much thicker than anything I wear nowadays !

They would have been something pretty close to around 1cm thick, around the edge....I'm genuinely not joking.
If I could only go back to wearing 'contract' lenses......(No chance.....Sigh 

Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Yes beer bottles have got thiner in the last 1000 yrs.

[Last Hussar]

I knew someone who had incredibly thick glasses.  She had contacts that were etched with a prism type thingie.

[Techno]

And now, over to the weather, with Phil

Anyone else have an Armageddon type thunderstorm last night ?

Stroll on it was a 'bit fierce', over here, late last night/early this morning.  .....
And absolutely heaving down with the wet stuff.

As usual, it'll give me chance to curse the boiler, while I reset everything on it. 
I've said it before...The boiler's the big pain when we have a mains 'flick'.

Cheers - Phil