3.2.12

You get what you pay for ... another top tip!

Have been food shopping at M&S of late and it is definitely a good thing to do. Well, mainly! Yesterday I was buying milk and saw a bargain: a pint of milk marked down to 10 pence so I bought it.

In the evening I was drinking coffee and thought, eeeuuggghhh! What's happened to that??

The penny dropped eventually. Cheap milk and good coffee do not mix.

Otherwise, M&S food is very good.

DW

30.1.12

Test Match Special

I have been given the opportunity of returning to Dubai again next week and whilst I will be there, most of the third Pakistan v England cricket test match will be played. Whilst I work every day until around 2:30 - 2:45, I have bought tickets for Sunday and Monday to go and watch the game.

Watch this space for photos and other observations.

DW

Eye? Aye!

Everyone who comes here regularly knows that two years ago to the day I had an operation to correct a detached retina in my right eye. As is normal, given the treatment I received, I also needed a lens replacement in the same eye around 6 months later.

Not perfect but I have absolutely no complaints at all: the knowledge and skills of the surgeon and his team to rebuild my retina from outside fills me with massive admiration.

Well, a month or so ago I realised that the vision in my right eye had regressed: nothing like the same symptoms as the PVD I had and then the detached retina. More of seeing through watered down milk. I monitored carefully as I travelled away from home and did a bit of reading about what might be wrong.

In the end I wasn't worried but of course I had to see an eye specialist and did that on Friday of last week. The diagnosis is that my new lens is attracting gunge to it: much quicker than normal, apparently, the lens has clouded over somewhat, explaining the effect of looking through watered down milk!

I need to have to lens laser zapped now so I am waiting for that to happen.

In the meantime, I am seeing things in a lop sided way as watered down milk vision is blurry vision!

DW