I'm going to Specsavers this morning. Overdue, I have to wear my reading glasses with distance glasses on top to read a book. 4 years since I had new reading glasses, but I had a test 2 years ago and they said they were OK so I just had glasses for driving for the first time.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We are still glued to the TV. Rather nice to see all the people celebrating Bastille Day as well as watching the race. Still 81 km to go. It’s really interesting. To see all the old ruined churches and chateaus.
@Busy-Lizzie 😂 I balance my driving glasses above my reading glasses so that they function like bi-focals, so I can knit and watch tv at the same time 🤣. Must make an appointment at Specsavers … 🤓
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afternoon all, not done much today so far, apart from our usual walk. I did manage to deadhead all the roses yesterday and tidy up the front garden and will do a bit more later. New restrictions in France sound appalling @Dordogne_Damsel, I'm sorry you're so stressed. Hopefully only having double jabbed people may make it easier to manage your queues? We're keeping our fingers crossed that the family wedding at the end of July will still be okay but we're not key players so it won't be really matter if we can't go after all. I actually took four pairs of glasses on holiday last week by accident. Took my usual bifocals so I can read signposts and the map to navigate for OH, prescription sunglasses ditto, and two pairs of plain reading/laptop glasses, one pair of which I'd forgotten was already in the suitcase! Stupid! I also took two mobile phones, my old small Nokia which doesn't weigh my handbag down and my newish Samsung smartphone which does. We're determined not to have smart meters and they probably wouldn't work here anyway because of a lack of good mobile signal, thank goodness. We know which appliances etc are likely to be expensive to run and frankly don't really care. It's all a ploy so that the energy companies can monitor, control and charge extra when they want to.
We can't have a smart metre in Norfolk because there's no mobile phone signal, at least that's what OH says. I found it useful at my old house in France because they could read it when I wasn't there. But there wasn't much phone signal there either.
Been to Specsavers. New reading glasses ordered. Long distance glasses are still OK.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That was the problem here a couple of years ago @Busy-Lizzie … twice Npower arranged to come and fit them and didn’t turn up so we received two compensation payments. It transpired that the company that got them didn’t turn up because they knew they wouldn’t work here. Now we’re with Eon and they’re sure that the new smart meters will work here … the engineer has been and gone and we have new meters. All quite painless … so far 🤞
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Hi folks, really busy at the moment looking after grandchildren. We had a smart meter fitted ages ago but it doesn't work because the meter is in the cellar. Th last meter reader we had wouldn't go down the cellar until we had cleared the cobwebs away because he was scared of spiders. Have been for sports massage today, she found lots of spots that needed sorting out Ouch. Had my nails redone and I'm now back home relaxing. A Merri and Mabel day tomorrow.
You. see,I didn't realize you need a mobile phone signal for a smart meter,not very good reception here because of the south downs. Thought I had problems with Scottish power, some one in the paper had several years of agro. Mine was 9 months quite long enough. EDF put night day reading the wrong way round,that was bad enough
My son lived near the east coast … the Satnav in his car picked up the signal from the wrong satellite and the image on his screen showed him driving down the middle of the North Sea. 😂
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I'm going to Specsavers this morning. Overdue, I have to wear my reading glasses with distance glasses on top to read a book. 4 years since I had new reading glasses, but I had a test 2 years ago and they said they were OK so I just had glasses for driving for the first time.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We're keeping our fingers crossed that the family wedding at the end of July will still be okay but we're not key players so it won't be really matter if we can't go after all.
I actually took four pairs of glasses on holiday last week by accident. Took my usual bifocals so I can read signposts and the map to navigate for OH, prescription sunglasses ditto, and two pairs of plain reading/laptop glasses, one pair of which I'd forgotten was already in the suitcase! Stupid!
I also took two mobile phones, my old small Nokia which doesn't weigh my handbag down and my newish Samsung smartphone which does.
We're determined not to have smart meters and they probably wouldn't work here anyway because of a lack of good mobile signal, thank goodness. We know which appliances etc are likely to be expensive to run and frankly don't really care. It's all a ploy so that the energy companies can monitor, control and charge extra when they want to.
Been to Specsavers. New reading glasses ordered. Long distance glasses are still OK.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have been for sports massage today, she found lots of spots that needed sorting out Ouch. Had my nails redone and I'm now back home relaxing. A Merri and Mabel day tomorrow.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.