Back To The Opticians

We've been back to Specsavers again today, it's quite involved this contact lens lark. It's not like glasses where you have an eye test, pick your new frames and collect your new glasses in an hour.

Debbie had her check up after wearing her contacts for week, just during the day until Thursday and left them in full time. It seems she's also got an astigmatism and they've ordered some new toric lenses like the ones I've got so we'll be back again to pick those up.

I've picked up an alternative toric lens for my right eye as the first one wouldn't sit right. It seems to be much better so far, I can actually see what I'm typing now lol. I'll need another check up to make sure these ones are working, so that means we've got at least another 3 visits before we're done.

I wouldn't mind but I keep trying to nudge my glasses that I'm not wearing anymore!

Paul

Wild Weather Continues

It's been wet and extremely windy round these parts for what seems like months now and there's no sign of any end to relentless wild weather.

Every time we open the back door, we find that the wind has blown something else all the way down the garden.

I've lost count of the number of times one of the bins has gone over and there also seems to be a secret plastic flower pot convention outside our door every morning. The watering can was a first though, we've not seen that since the summer.

While out in the garden today we noticed loads more snowdrops flowering and Debbie reckons that the grass has started growing again. We're supposed to be seeding that again this year but we weren't planning on doing that in January!

Paul

Double Glazing

We've taken the plunge, we're having double glazing fitted! Here are a couple of reasons why:

Too many times we have had to use a battering ram to close the back door cos it's sticking.

We actualy got locked out once when the Yale style lock turned into a Knackered style lock while we were out and we had to break in.

If you try dropping a feather down past a winodw like in the Everest advert, you never see the bloody thing again.

The rain is actually starting to come inside now.

You actualy have to get on ladders the clean the outside of the window, well if I did clean them I would.

Lucy can hear the mouse at the top of our garden whispering to the hedgehog and goes bananas.

So, at the end of next month we'll be rain proof, wind proof, sound proof and Lucy going daft proof!

Paul

MyBlogLog

It's quite some time since we added anything new to the sidebar here, back in the early days we signed up for anything and everything blog related.

I spotted something the other day that actually offers something new and as it turns out is exactly what I was looking for.

After signing up for MyBlogLog, you put a little piece of script on your blog and then every time you visit another blog who has signed up, it registers your visit and shows you're picture in their sidebar.

The really cool thing about this is that as long as you're signed in to MyLogBlog while you're surfing, it doesn't matter how you get to a blog, it will still register your visit. This is just the ticket for me because I tend to use Google Reader for almost all my surfing these days because there is never enough time to open every blog we're linked to every day.

There's much more to MyBlogLog such as linking up with other people and their blogs to form communities, it's early days yet but so far I'm really glad I found this site.

Paul

Snowdrops

We planted loads of bulbs in the Autumn, daffodils and snowdrops, there are loads of green shoots everywhere and one of the snowdrops is already flowering!

Paul

Contact Lenses

We were back at the opticians yesterday to collect out new contact lenses. Debbie has never had them before and had to be taught how to put them in and take them out again. When I first got mine a few years ago, it took me hours to get the hang of it but Debbie had them in and out the required 3 times in less than 20 minutes!

I got my new toric lenses to combat the astigmatism in my right eye, I can see miles better in these new ones but my right eye is still quite blurred so they're going to get me another pair to try next week.

Debbie has got hers in today but will taking them out later, building up slowly before keeping them in all the time. I've left mine in since yesterday and will try and keep them in all week until the new ones arrive.

Howbrook Reservoir

We've been out for a walk today round Howbrook Reservoir, even though it's next to a very busy road, it's really peacefull. There were quite a few fishermen so there must be a few fish in there and it's also alive with birds, we saw a number of yellow wagtails fluttering around as well as the usual mallards and coots on the water.

We didn't take the camera's so I got all these shots on my mobile (k800i). As an experiment, we've started posting mobile snaps on a new photo blog, you can see more of Howden Reservoir here.

Paul

Lucy's New Blue Collar

Debbie bought Lucy a new collar yesterday, it's blue with silver stars and she looks a proper bobby dazzler.

Paul

And So Back To Work

All the decorations came down yesterday, the living room looks so bare and now we've moved the computer into the dining room and pushed the sofa back, the room looks twice the size as well.

With all the clutter out of the way, the gaps in the wallpaper where the old stairs used to be are clearly visible, looks like another job that one. Debbie's also pulled a piece of wallpaper off on the fireplace, it's a kind of subtle hint!

We've been back at work today, it's always mad the first day back after the yuletide break and today was no exception, it's been good to get home and rejoice in the fact that we don't need to do the shuffle dance from the sofa round the coffee table to get to the stairs any more.

Even better, we won't be seeing Lucy launching herself off the back of the sofa to cut out half the stairs altogether, tonight she's settled on her favourite sport, trying to bury half a biscuit in her bed, the fact that it's impossible never seems to get in the way lol.


Paul

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone, hope you all had a great night!

We let the new year in with Dad and little bro last night, the hot roast pork and turkey butties were delicious, washed down with a glass or three of loopy juice.

We've been out for a walk today, taking advantage of the winter sunshine while it lasted, it's bucketing down again now, there's even talk of a little bit of snow over the hills near here. I'll have to keep an eye on that lampost, just in case we get the odd flake here.

Paul