Good to see you @hogweed ... glad you're feeling better than you were ...a friend who has been enduring Long Covid for 12 months now, is still finding that it's a bad idea to push herself ... take it gently seems to be the key ... I hope the weather picks up soon so that the chair gets lots of use
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good quality varifocals are great, but cheaper ones can cause a lot of problems with peripheral vision because the prescription isn't continued all the way to the edge. That causes distortion, with the most common problem being difficultly in judging steps.
The only time I did have a problem was when I was persuaded to have shallower lenses than I had been used to, then the 'sweet spot' for reading was so narrow as to be unusable. Fortunately the optician did change them without charge.
Afternoon all. Just been reading back through the comments as every time in the past few days I logged on here something happened a few moments later (dinner ready, phone call, delivery...) I had to disappear. Now I have time as planned trip off as my car wouldn't start - the battery is flat again. Bought the car from my SIL last year a) to help him out and b) old reliable Ford Focus was going to fail its MOT, having scraped through the previous few years. This one is a massive great Honda which has a security system that uses a little bit of battery all the time. I don't drive that much but today was going to take it for a spin ending up at a local nursery that specialises in indoor plants and then on to the GC for lawn feed etc. So looking forward to our trip, but not to be. SIL will charge the battery tomorrow (again) and lecture me again how I should drive a minimum of 8 miles at a time at least once a fortnight. Grump. Don't want to. Failing that, he'll show me how to disconnect the battery when the car isn't in use.
I have worn glasses all the time since I was 5 years old and have had glaucoma since I was 38. I used two pairs of glasses when I got to about 45 and changed to bifocals a couple of years later. I now have bifocal, transitional lens..... saves me having to have prescription sunglasses. The only problem I have is when I take them off, I have to put them in a particular place or I can't find them!!!! I am one of those people who need glasses to find their glasses
@KT53. That’s exactly the problem with mine, so you’re continually turning the head to find the reading bit, by the end of the day my neck and head ached. cant remember how much they were exactly but well over £200.00. Nearer 3. I had to have the contacts in end so alls well except they are £40.00 a month. I’d be very miserable without them.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I was going to say the same but @KT53 beat me to it. @Lyn, the first varifocals I tried years ago had exactly the same issues as you. This is a case where paying extra for the top quality ones is really worth it. As has been said the cheaper versions, only have a narrow band of correct focus, the better ones have that edge to edge. I am in the position now where I am not short sighted anymore, but I still need them for mid and close quarters plus the astigmatism. By having the right ones I found my prescriptions only changed minimally for many years.
Good to see you Hogweed, you should have gone for the RTBC section.My old man used to call me Mrs Magoo,told him Karma would catch up,Being mildly short sighted don't need reading glasses,he now has distance and reading AND he still can't read a battery!
My grumble is about mulch. Having had problems with imported weeds in some products, I decided to get a bulk delivery of Strulch. I have used it before but only a few bags from the garden centre. We got 25 150l bags delivered to our sil, the idea being they have 15 bags I have 10. I brought mine home and began to use straight away. At end of last week I was finishing mine when I started to notice some appeared to be mouldy. I got in touch, and to be fair they didn't question it. I sent a picture of one of the bags content and they said it was a manufacturing fault and they would replace it . My sil has not used any of theirs yet. My gripe is they are very reluctant to take back the unused faulty bags, they say if we get it out of the bags and wet it down, when it dries the mould will die, or dig it in and it will rot. One Granddaughter has severe Asthma, so I don't want them even trying to use it . Luckily I can get rid of it on the Allotment, but it's a bl**dy pain.
I've never used strulch. It seems to me like a clever way of marketing expensive straw by giving it an organic cache. It reminds me of the on the vine wheeze that tomato growers use to pass on what used to be a waste product to the consumer by convincing them that they are getting a superior product if they buy the stalks
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
cant remember how much they were exactly but well over £200.00. Nearer 3.
I had to have the contacts in end so alls well except they are £40.00 a month. I’d be very miserable without them.
My gripe is they are very reluctant to take back the unused faulty bags, they say if we get it out of the bags and wet it down, when it dries the mould will die, or dig it in and it will rot. One Granddaughter has severe Asthma, so I don't want them even trying to use it . Luckily I can get rid of it on the Allotment, but it's a bl**dy pain.
It reminds me of the on the vine wheeze that tomato growers use to pass on what used to be a waste product to the consumer by convincing them that they are getting a superior product if they buy the stalks