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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Lilith __,
Sheesh!
I paid $340 for
*thorough eye exam (being doing these things since I was 6 – necessary)
*new Adidas frame & couriered lenses (yeah- orange & optical grade plastic.) -
Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Simon Grigg,
<q>Glasses seem to be one of the great scams of New Zealand. Why you should be charged for the test when you are about to be overcharged for the frames and lenses still bemuses me.
To be fair, my optician and opthalmagic surgeon suggested, that since initial cataract op had been so successful and I had good depth vision & useful close-up sight in the other eye – Warehouse reading glasses would do just fine. They do. Between $7.99 and 15.99 apiece.
Edit – but if I can ever get some more Porsche frames (the kind where you can interchange lenses) – like my late lamented orangelensed (my eyes work best with that colour) sunglasses that I inadvertently sat on for the very reasonable price my brother got ’em for on e-Bay* I’d be a goer…lovely engineering...* Yeah, he’s been trying ever since the disaster…
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Astigmatism is quite separate from the one eye=longsighted/other eye= shortsighted thing. Generally doesnt happen when a very shortsighted person has a cataract operation in the dominant eye (and can I add my huge appreciation to those of you who have also experienced to the “WOW! Now I can see!! thread?”
(It’s why my major donations go to the Fred Hollows Foundation.)) -
Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
learned I was *very* shortsighted at age 5 (I’d gone to primary school knowing how to read….but couldnt see what was on the blackboard.) Got shot out of primer 2 into primer 4 when my parents insisted actually, I could read – and write – and not in that primitive hand they were teaching me at NNBPS-
been downhill all the way since, I suppose-(but I still remember the day I discovered what 'The Port Hills' were and what lightbulbs were...aged 6 and a bit-)
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Lilith __,
As soon as I win Lotto, I’ll buy a bale-ful!!
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Nice looking wee guy - and will be game & obedient (my late uncle Bill swore by collie/lab crosses for pighunting*
- while he loved staffies he thought they were unreliable in tha hunting- game, and were apt to go bush (and wind up being shot.)*He was one of the first to use leather chest-protectors & deep collars for his pigdogs-
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Looks intriguing - lab plus?
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All the Chris’s – Chris W, Chris, and Scott Chris – thank you so much for making my evening – China soundscapes & a lyre-bird – so excellent!
(Wonder if we could ever organise a meeting between tui&korimako&lyre birds & a troup of indomitable older Chinese with the birds & the games?
Be such a memorable soundscape!
NB: tui can be trained to imitate both human voices & calls…) -
Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Simon Grigg,
n Bali there was a bird that I'm convinced was recycling the incessant dominant local racket - the whine of low CC motorcycles. I have no idea what it was but it did it very accurately in the early morn.
I have a crackly tape that sounds remarkably like a chainsaw starting up - until the tui lets loose with a few chonks & bell-notes-
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Great!
-cataract ops are very quick, and generally totally successful. It was wellworth putting the $5000 plus on my mortgage (because I was no longer able to drive safely, and driving isnt a luxury in a remote area....and while I was near the top of the list, the opthalmologist reckoned it would be at least another 3 months before
the job was done.)