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Saturday, 20 September 2014

Blinded By Silicon



I return to the opticians this morning and manage not to fall over anything on my way there in my new contact lenses. The ones that are fine until you put them in. The optician is dumbfounded that they have effectively blinded me and eventually announces that I might be allergic to silicon. As I’ve been wearing contact lenses for the past 30 years with no previous problems this seems unlikely to me but she’s the expert... She orders me another different pair and says can you come back next week. If I must.

Then to the match, which Derby should have won easily but contrive to go 2-0 down before pulling it back to 2-2.

We stay in, ahead of the Pride Park bike ride tomorrow.

(Saturday 20th September)

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Blinded

Something jumps into my eye in the shower this morning. No idea what but I’m blinded for the first part of the day. Surprisingly the solution to the problem was to put my contact lens in and let that drive the intruder out.

Somebody offers the advice that the best way to clear debris from your eye is to blow your nose. Oddly enough, I didn’t think to try that.

L’s doing a race tonight, I’m not, I’m saving myself for Friday’s Jägermeister 10k. Well, she was supposed to be doing a race tonight but now she asks if she can 'do a Paula’, as in Radcliffe.

I’m not sure what she means... Win? Drop out half-way through? Hopefully she’s not planning to relive herself in the gutter?

L reckons she won't do as well as last year, so says she might as well drop out now and tell everyone that she’s pulled a muscle or something. That’s quite bitchy actually. I tell her that only applies to those that won it last year and to get on with it. Hard but fair.

The race is called the 'Mickleover 10k' by some or the 'Jack Piggs 10k' by others or just 'plain and rather dull with the last 5k down a totally straight stretch of old railway with no distinguishing features' by me. It starts at the Mickleover Sports Club and, at least with me not running, I can take the boys.

We have a stick session while the race is on. Well we try to have a stick session, I throw each of them a stick and they both lie down and start to eat their sticks. Well, I guess it was hot.

L’s not happy with her run. Her time’s not bad but not as good as last year's. Two years ago she’d have been thrilled with that. We stop off at L’s folks for a cuppa on the way home, which saves us some units, which might be needed later in the week. What with the Jägermeister coming up.

(Wednesday 3rd August)