It’s a chilly day today; winter drawers on!
I’m not sorry, though as it’s lovely to see how the leaves are changing colour now and the nights are drawing in. I love the changing of the season, each one having its own beauty. People are sometimes surprised that I like cold weather or the rain but I really do. The only thing I dislike is the wind (oh stop it!) and that’s because I’m a contact lens wearer and it blows particles of dust into my eyes that then feel like rocks. I’ve worn lenses since I was eighteen. Yes, they did have them then! I became short-sighted at the age of ten and in the space of about three weeks; suddenly I just couldn’t see the board and had to move from the back of the class to the front.
Wearing glasses was the bane of my life during my teens, which were an out-of-focus blur. I put my glasses on when the bell to start the lesson rang and I took them off again the second I heard the bell to end the lesson. Going to the pictures with a new boyfriend was just like listening to a play on the radio because there was no way I was going to let him know I wore glasses until I’d reeled him in a bit. Oh the vanity of youth!! It’s only with hindsight that I realise I’d want nothing to do with a bloke who’d dump me because I wore glasses.
Things came to a head one morning when the Sister was ready for school on time and I was late and she wouldn’t wait for me. Perhaps I should add here that I was Head Girl and should have been setting an example, but, hey, we don’t live in a perfect world! So the Sister went off and when I got to the bus stop, which was a request stop, there was nobody there but me.
So, I decided to just put my hand out to stop whichever bus came along and once it was near enough to see the number, if it wasn’t mind I’d just shrug and smile myopically at the conductor. And after a couple of minutes I saw a bus in the distance and stuck out my arm assertively only to realise I’d hailed a United Dairies milk lorry!
It was then I knew I had to get some of those new-fangled contact lenses that our PE teacher was wearing. And I’ve been wearing them ever since.
Although when I’m writing I don’t wear them as I can see close within hour them. If I wear them I have to wear reading glasses over the top. Go figure! And I’m writing Singles’ Holiday the TV serial at the moment, although yesterday I did a bit of acting; some corporate stuff for one of the big four supermarkets and very civilised and enjoyable it was! So no Retailers’ Raspberry for them!
No, I’m afraid my RR today goes to NatWest for misinforming Nick and me about what we needed to take along to our meeting to open a bank account for Melabeau Productions. Said misinformation meant we wasted a whole afternoon and were not impressed. We’re now opening it elsewhere, so standby to make your sponsorship donations!!
