Whilst away at Woodbrooke I had a glasses crisis. Everyone there is terribly helpful and the Friend In Residence taped them up for me whilst searching fruitlessly for some superglue. However the glasses, having now been mended twice, were basically doomed; so forth I sallied yesterday in search of more.
These are just bog-standard reading glasses so I was planning just to get some off the peg: however, Specsavers are now prescription-only and warned me that most opticians have gone the same way. ‘Where should I try?’ I asked. ‘Poundland,’ she replied, as though the only alternative to full-on, sanctified, blessed-by-the-Pope prescription glasses is a pair of tatty plastic fall-apart-as-soon-as-you-wear-them goggles. No thanks. ‘Anywhere else?’ I wondered hopefully. She suggested Primark. Primark? OK, I’ll give it a try… but no, Primark had ‘a few’ glasses in and are now sold out. No plans are in train to replenish the stock. Sighing, I exited and went instead on a blinds quest. (There must be some amusing way of tying up ‘blinds’ and ‘glasses’ – I expect it’ll come to me.) The blinds in the futility room were old and mouldy and I thought of replacing them with roller-blinds; however a criss-crossing scan of Wilko’s failed to locate any. I was just leaving when bang! I came face-to-face with an entire row of reading glasses, all helpfully labelled with the degree of magnetism and a reading chart to guide you (I’m 2.5 in case you’re interested.) So reader, I bought them. It was only when I began to unwrap them at home that I saw the instructions about batteries.
Batteries? Since when do you need batteries for glasses? While the mind boggled I took them out and examined a bulge at the side which I assumed was the battery compartment. What the -? I turned back to the instructions and discovered there’s a little switch on each side which turns on a reading light.
I can now read books whilst looking like a plane coming in to land…
Kirk out![IMG_0742[1]](https://lizardyoga.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/img_07421.jpg?w=656)
Kirk out
Sarada Gray 
Does the magnetism make you 2.5% more attractive? Reading is one thing I can do without glasses. Have usually felt slightly superior about it, but not any more. I want some! Do they do a 0% ?
LOL! I think you can get clear glasses with no magnetism somewhere. Alas I fear they make me 50% less attractive but hey, ho – without them I wouldn’t be able to read anything
I also like “futility room” – it just beats magnetism to being the word of the week, as in futility vehicle (an off-road jeepy thing designed for running guns to war-torn regions but used solely for shopping and the school run) and futility company (misleads you into thinking you spend less if you switch to them).
Both of those are good; the first one beats Chelsea tractor
And presumably a futility room is where you clean things so you can dirty them again.
Yep, I refer you to my previous post on decorating it
I wanted some a while back, thinking they were terribly techy, like the kind of eye-wear for disarming explosives whilst dangling from a cable. I did try and make some by selotaping a pair of pen-lights to each arm of a pair of glasses, but found them too heavy on the nose. How are these?
They’re great. I’ve used the lights a bit and they seem fine; mostly I just use them for reading. They’re a little on the narrow side (round the temples) and you can’t try them on as they’re wrapped so bear that in mind.