I set myself a target of 52. Only on 41 unfortunately. Might make it to 42, but a lot of my books are non-fiction which I dip in & out of.

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Nice. His art does have a kind of charm to it. I'm a little on the fence about it, but it's been growing on me.

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Chores are definitely not good. Very overrated. Especially bureaucracy. Says the person who is doing voluntary work in an office dealing with diocesan bureaucracy. šŸ™„

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I think prices are high across the EU - cheapest in South America. I found a site that said Switzerland is most expensive, then Denmark, then the UK.
I probably don’t use it often enough to justify the cost, but it’s the annoyance factor of the ads that makes me do it. I can live with them on Netflix/Sky etc but for some reason they bug the hell out of me on YouTube.

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No idea. It's a crap world,

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Wow. It's £12.99 a month here.

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Guys can be very weird. Keep your eye on him - though Poppy says a well-placed paw can result in treats…

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You could be right - our brains compensate for a lot of eye shortcomings anyway and there is an argument that wearing corrective glasses stops the eyes from working as hard and the brain from interpreting the ā€œwrongā€ information and making it correct. Let’s face it, the eyes see upside down anyway, which the brain corrects for. I’m sure there’s a point beyond which things aren’t possible, though. My brother was so shortsighted he simply couldn’t see a ball until it was right in front of his eyes. No brain can really correct for something it simply can’t see at all. I don’t think you can compensate for presbyopia, either. Strong light helps a bit, as I found. Even with reading lenses I still need stronger light to read small print nowadays. That's why I use a Kindle so much - variable front illumination and adjustable text size. Some paperbacks I need a torch for, in addition to my specs - but that tends to happen to everyone in time.

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Well that’s good. Hope it works out. Eyesight is a very precious thing.

I’ve worn glasses since I was seven. Yeah, pink nhs frames on a kid with bright auburn hair. I don’t think I’ve recovered from the trauma. I was so relieved when they brought out tortoiseshell ones. I started off long-sighted, then short, then I got given a prescription for astigmatism when I was about 15. They warned me my brain would take a while to adapt - they weren’t wrong. For several days it looked like the ground was at 45°. Horrid feeling. It’s a damn nuisance when it changes, because it makes previous specs unwearable unless I want to feel queasy. I still don’t know why it should change, but it does. I’m hoping that if my lenses harden as I get older, it will stop that, but who knows.

Luckily I don’t have the extra holes in my eyes. I just know what to do if I ever have an acute attack, (basically get to an eye emergency dept), plus I have to wear photochromic lenses to lessen the impact of going from light to dark places - something to do with the iris having pigment cells rubbed more if the pupil changes quickly. Not that my pupils contract properly anyway. I dunno, never really fully understood the issue. It’s never caused a major problem; it isn’t glaucoma, but too much pigment liberation could cause a blockage and an acute glaucoma attack. Yay.

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Well that's good to know. šŸ˜€ I guess you could always close one eye.

They can fix all sorts of things with lasers, but I can’t say I fancy the thought of having laser surgery on my eyes. The medics threatened to laser an additional drainage hole into my eyes because of the pigment dispersion. I wasn’t keen, but agreed. Luckily the day I went for it, I saw the consultant who was happy to agree that it wasn’t really needed, as the condition had never caused any damage to my retina. Phew!

If I ever get cataracts then assuming they insert a correctly shaped lens the astigmatism should go away. Then I could buy cheap reading glasses maybe.

My eyesight isn’t really that bad: +1 and +0.75, with a reading addition of +2.5 & +2.75. I think the worst I ever was, was -1.25. The astigmatism angle just means that horizontal/vertical is the least in focus, so I get eye strain easily. And of course since the age of 40 I’ve needed a reading addition. But I’m typing this on my 6ā€ iPhone without my glasses on, no problem at all.

My brother, however, has always been very short-sighted, though maybe less so now he’s in his 50s. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€

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