Nothing noteworthy has happened recently, but I thought I’d post a quick update anyway.
My left eye has been giving me a bit of grief recently: out of focus and with black floaters – I thought they were flies when I first saw them and was hopelessly trying to swat them away from me.
A trip to the opticians revealed that the Vitreous Humour (the squidgy jelly stuff inside the eyeball) has become detached from the retina. Apparently. this is something that sometimes naturally happens as we get older – or “… as we mature”, which is how my optician more delicately put it – and nothing can be done about it. She checked my vision and gave me a stronger prescription.
The good news is that now I am officially ‘mature’ I get my eye test for free!
The bad news is that my new spectacles cost me three hundred and fifty quid!
In other news: I received a speeding ticket in the post, this week. Forty-seven miles an hour on the M1… in a variable speed limit section of the motorway where it had been reduced to 40 MPH.
To be honest, I don’t remember actually seeing the variable speed limit signs at the time, but I have been sent photographic evidence, so it must be true. Maybe I should have gone to Specsavers sooner.
I have returned the letter they sent me, having first ticked the box that says “You’ve got me bang to rights, guv’nor: it was me wot did it” and now I await my fate: either a fine and three points or a fine and a Driver Education Course. Obviously, fingers are crossed for the latter… because I’m a good boy, really.
Nothing noteworthy to comment on,🚗 That’s just the ticket.
Not even a noteworthy comment, to comment on 🙂
Your specs was well inexpensive innit. When I worked at Boots and got my 70% staff discount my pair of Tom Ford frames (just the bleedin’ frames) was £300 and yes, that’s with 70% off. Anyway, onwards and upwards. Which is your defence for speeding on the M1 – you were trying to achieve takeoff speed. Probably
Dunno about takeoff speed, but I have now hung up my Lewis Hamilton racing leathers.
I can’t believe they did you for 47 MPH on the M1. What happened to the Halcyon days? I like the rose tinted glasses much better than those mature ones.
Don’t go to driving school. I’ve been 3 times so you can see how pointless it is. And, there’s always some numb nuts who wants to ask more questions and keep you there longer.
I’ve been ‘educated’ before, Jules. It was about ten years ago, I think.
To be fair, it did actually work and it made me more aware of the dangers of driving at speed.
That particular time, I was doing 36 MPH.