[Magdalen] Well, whadaya know! - New specs

[Jon Egger]

I loved the times that I was wearing contacts.  Sadly, I'm a slow
'blinker', but not on a Dodge truck...if that was the case, I'd be in a
song by His Bobness.

Grace&peace,
brud

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Both my contacts are multifocal, but one brand are "torics" for
> astigmatism. I wear that one in my left eye and a regular softlens
> multifocal in my right, I couldn't drive at night with the torics in (and
> it was a little difficult in the daytime) but I had difficulty with close
> work or prolonged reading with the others. This works well even though I'm
> right-eye dominant. For jewelry work I have special craft glasses that are
> made to my specs with contacts in; I don't know how it works but the
> company that makes them (craftoptics.com) are specialists at it.
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 03/09/2015 22:41, Lesley de Voil wrote:
> >
> >> Having been short-sighted  and wearing glasses since my teens, in my
> >> forties I discovered on breaking one lens that I could read the music
> >> with the dominant eye and see the choir in the middle distance with
> >> the other.
> >>
> >
> > That reminds me of the school-ma'am or half-moon glasses.  The teacher
> > could read through the lens and then fix the naughty boy in the back row
> > with her beady stare over the top of it.  (Some may regard that as sexist
> > but it reflects the common situation.)
> >
> > Roger
> >
>