expensive specs
I went to collect my new (expertly, precision tinted) specs yesterday. The original frames I’d chosen wern’t right for the lens type (too thick or too thin or something) so I needed to pick out some new frames which they said they would glaze right away for me to save me going back again (it’s an hour each way plus parking money so not a trip you would want to do regularly if you didn’t need to really!)
Of course, that left me with half an hour whilst they did the job to wander round…. which is why we are now the proud owners of Globe Trotting which has sparked much discussion on not only the continents as marked on the mat (which are not what you would call acurately drawn…) but also countries and features within those continents along with covert reading, left and right practice (and oh boy do we both need lots of that!) not to mention balance, contortion and developing the ability to laugh at oneself! Not bad for £6!! Then we wandered into the fabric shop and came out wth fabric for 2 dresses and a pattern plus fabric for a shorts and top set.
Mind you, the new frames wer much cheaper than the old ones so I got a cheque back for £20 which offset the spend!!!
Anyway, new specs are odd. Fantastic but odd. They are much, much darker than i had expected - I could walk away from the PC safely in the other pair without wondering who had turned the lights out bu tthese? I can barely see across the room! They really do filter out a lot of colour (which obviously is the idea) and all of the glare and I have to say that I wouldn’t bat an eyelid at paying out for another set now I can see the difference betwen these and what i had made up for me by a normal optician (who just replicated a colour I said was about right with a quick colour-wash over the lens) Where the other set kept stuff reasonably still for a reasonable time, these have stopped a level of text vibration that I was unaware of, making everything so crisp and cutting out eye strain totally. Now I just need a pair of normal (ie cheap, off the shelf for £2) readers for doing fine detail crafts as I can’t see colours well enough with these and I’m all set!
Poundland! I have a pair from there, they are pretty crap really, but they do the job just fine.
Comment by Tim — October 9, 2007 @ 10:43 pm
yup, that’s the sort of thing I was thinking of, just something that will do what they are supposed to do and not be a tragedy if they get lost/broken
Comment by Administrator — October 10, 2007 @ 7:13 am
how odd, clo played Globe Trotting this morning as I have hit major slump and so she said I could just sit with my tea and spin the doodah wotsit. She loves it. Hers cost £1.50 from a charity shop so even better value
btw, I was wondering on the way home from collecting Clo from Rainbows that she has to call her leaders Rainbow Daisy and Rainbow Tulip - are you a Rainbow flower too?????
Comment by Michelle — October 10, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
I am very relived to say that titles for Rainbow Leaders are optional and that our group opted not to way way back before I joined! Aprilia wanted me to be “Sun” like the leader in the Ready for Rainbows book but I said that it would be silly to suddenly change how things were done (and bless her she believed me!)
Comment by Administrator — October 11, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
My husband and a few friends have used glassesdirect.co.uk and have all had good results, and have saved a bundle–about £20 a basic pair including postage. As to Rainbows–I just couldn’t call the leaders by their names–Dragonfly and Koala Bear
Comment by Elizabeth — October 12, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
Elezabeth - yes, I’ve looked at them, they are really good value however, the major cost of my main specs was the precision tint (gawd does’t that sound pretentious!!) which cost £100 and there is only 1 lab in the country that does them (there not being that much call for it…) so I hve to shell out HUGE £££ for them. My crafting pair is going to be one of those Poundland specials at £2 or whatever (although I still fancy a pair of the Clic ones!)
And as for Dragon Fly and Koala Bear …. where’s that smilie with the hair standing on end when you need it?????
Comment by Administrator — October 13, 2007 @ 9:11 am