Opticians Why So Expensive?

 Well apart from the delay to my appointment meaning I had to extend my car parking it all went rather well.  Getting old and failing eye sight and hearing and general health - it's not fun is it?

But, as it goes, one of my eyes has improved slightly and there's no major problems excepting the start of a cataract forming slowly in one eye - not please about that but it is what it is I guess.

My prescription has hardly changed but my glasses are 4 years old now and I have a small crack where I dropped them on Christmas Day - the oven surprised me with a huge gust of vapour as I opened it and my glasses fell to the floor and a small hairline crack by the lens screw has appeared. So I saw a couple of frames I liked and we quickly put together the cost for them.  Little change out of £600.  So I went to my previous online supplier and got them for £150!  Yes - why are the shops so expensive?  

Our PM has been on TV "addressing the nation" luckily I didn't watch the Dalek and of course, he just spouts lies and deflects the criticisms back at us "far right bigoted voters"  - The car crash is still happening in slow motion and these cretinous politicians have nowhere to hide now.  Their true colours are coming into view and maybe the rest of the population might wake up and smell the coffee.

I doubt it sometimes though judging by the adverts on Facebook this week someone is selling LPs and asking a lot for them.  Of course, these aren't rare LPs but some of the most well known of all time - the ones that were at the top of the charts for a year or more and sold multiple millions of copies in this country alone let alone the millions around the world.  So in reality they aren't worth that mush as there is no rarity value or scarcity about them, things that would command high prices.

We had the water tank replaced yesterday a mains water pressurised tank and it really has made a difference to the pressure of the water both hot and cold and the hot water now flows properly and isn't a dribble out of the taps and better than that - it's hot all the time.  It was a bit of a shock paying the bill this morning but it should last 25 years they say so fingers crossed it does that.