Looking ahead

After yet another trip into Lancaster, I’m now once more back to one pair of varifocal glasses. I’m still waiting for my new ones to arrive. The Fox is having the lens in his reading glasses weakened. It seems it’s our fault. We keep our computer screen about a metre from where we sit, not the standard 65cm, which they’d assumed.

 We’d never realised there was a standard distance. We just put the screen at what, to us, is a convenient position on the desk we have. We have the screen straight in front of us with space in between the keyboard and screen for any books, paper etc. we may need to consult while on the computer.  How unreasonable of us to keep the screen so far away!

Our next trip to Lancaster should be for my new varifocals & the Fox’s changed reading glasses. That is, if it’s not for my next trip to the hospital for the gastroenterology department. I’m due to have the pancreatitis checked out yet again, but I can’t see that being a problem. However, I’ve not heard when the appointment is yet. I suspect they’ve lost my records yet again. I’ve had to chase after them every other time!

On the good side we’ve sorted out our next holiday. We’re off to France. We’re trying going by train, through the tunnel. We’re having a week in Tours in the Loire region, followed by a few days in Paris. We had originally been hoping to go to Beaune but all the hotels were full, at least as far as disabled rooms were concerned. It must be the best part of 20 years since we last visited Tours. And then we only went with friends for a day trip to the enormous aquarium there. It should be good to explore the town more.

As for Paris, it’s over 40 years since either of us were last there. The man I spoke to to sort out the holiday kept going on about the hotel in the huge skyscraper just behind the Eiffel Tower, & I couldn’t help pointing out, when we were last in Paris, there were no skyscrapers in the centre of Paris. They weren’t allowed.

Paris has certainly changed in those 40 years. Les Halles, the food & flower market has moved out of the centre. The Pompidou Centre exists. There’s a great glass pyramid now outside the Louvre. It should be interesting to see the changes & to see how our perception of the city has changed as we explore it with older eyes.