Some months ago my dr rdrz may recall I was complaining that my phone battery was suddenly going down very fast. After several months of this, and following a recent software update, I find that it is pretty much back to the previous battery-life once charged. Go figure.
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I have already been back to the opticians' twice to get my glasses ( Read more... )

Now I have my Grant of Probate, I thought, what I should do is set up an Executor Account.
And may I remark how Very Unhelpful the websites of certain financial institutions are in this matter, but I did eventually speak to someone and find that I could go into any branch.
So I went to the nearest one this morning, and after first being told, They ( Read more... )

Well, I seem to have all the ducks in a row to post off the application for grant of probate.
On the academic side of things, I have done some work on the thing I am doing for a non-specialist audience. Also some research for the thing for the centenary celebration that I am doing.
In Dept of Not Yet Forgotten, I have been asked to read someone's ( Read more... )

(With added hassle from Thames Water.)
I finally got a grip and made appointments for 3 personal maintenance things, two of which I had been having nagging messages about:
Hair cut! because I was looking more and more like the Dulux sheepdog, an allusion which is probably only meaningful to UKians of a certain generation. Now done.
Eye test: which ( Read more... )

This week it feels like I am spending money like a drunken sailor.
That is, if the sailor in question was having dental work done as the result of first visit to dentist in 2 years, finding themself having to pony up for new glasses as the result of eye test, etc.
Okay, maybe the boots (but probably not going to see what was in Ecco's online sale ( Read more... )

Further to this post and ensuing discussion about a) problematic metaphorical use of term short-sighted and b) cliche tropes about spectacle-wearing, I had several thoughts.

Apart from a few people who still adhere to the Bates Method, does anyone refuse to use (or refuse on behalf of e.g. their minor children) visual assistive technologies? Are ( Read more... )

Sam Wollaston is right (bluuuuue mooooon, you saw me standing aloooooone) to be less than completely convinced that 'there really is "a new breed of women" as we're told', who practise 'rinsing', or women getting blokes to give them stuff, often really expensive stuff, for no return.

I give you Miss Adelaide (the Famous Fiancee) doing her act at ( Read more... )

I do not think it is just wounded amour propre to be negative about an article which happens to fail to cite Mi Amayzin Contribushionz to historiography of particular subject at particular period, when no-one else's relevant work published in the area since c. 1996 (of which there has been quite a bit) is cited either.

Just sayin'. FAIL.

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Eye- ( Read more... )

Having some difficulty in getting up to speed, but that is probably due to various factors.

Was sleeping not terribly well, for no apparent reason, over the long break (chiz), and into last week.

However, my hip was being particularly at peace all the time - in fact right up until I went back to work; I am beginning to think that it is some ( Read more... )

Increasing numbers of children are suffering from myopia.

Would that be 'suffering from' or 'diagnosed as being'? given that the figures are worldwide and presumably include regions in which routine sight-testing has historically been far from universal.

Furthermore, for fairly large swathes of historical time, even given the possibility of ( Read more... )