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The eyes have it - Old and New spectacles Dress of the day 392

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 My previous Spectacles. Angela Close up of the New Spectacles. Photo by Trevor Sharot. The new goggles Goggles were available in black or orange. I chose orange. I have an orange and black swimsuit. The goggles are sighted for long distance only. You are presumed not to be reading nor isnpecting fish close-up, but checking distance, to avoid other swimmers and see your destination. My eyes are slightly differnt and the two lenses are matching my eye strength, so hey are marked left and right. Therefore you have to check you are not wearing them upside down on the wrong eyes. However they are not matched in great detail like proper varifocal glasses which also correct any astigmatism (difference from left to right in the same eyeball) . They are like off the pag glasses which just adapt to the basic one, two three  difference in reading glasses. However when you have two different eyes so one would be at the smaller distance and the other lens would be the next size up to matc...

New Non-Reflective Spectacles From Hatch End Eyecare! Trifocal, Reactolite

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  Angela's New Spectacles bought From Hatch End Eyecare My new frames show more of my eyes. The lenses don't reflect light in photos and online on Zoom. Hatch End Eyecare has the most amazing and amusing shop. My old glasses, slightly lopsided, had come apart several times. The right hand side had dropped the screw several times and finally, lost the grip of the thread and were superglued together by my helpful husband. We had looked at three shops in Singapore which offered only plain spectacle frames which looked like those offered on the UK's National Health Service to schoolchildren. I knew that a trip back to London might offer alternative frames. The old glasses, before they broke. Photo by Sharot family. Old and new spectacles turn dark in the sun. I don't want to carry two pairs. The new spectacles turning dark in the sunlight. Photo by Trevor Sharot. The broken frames had come from the other Hatch End opticians across the road. (Confusingly similarly named hatc...