BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Rusty Nails]

We're cat sitting in the Netherlands at the moment and can't believe my son's TV arrangements. Subscriptions galore, YouTube, Disney, Netflix and more.aa

Clearly the age of making an annual payment and then watching whatever is on is only for dinosaurs like us. We've given up and are enjoying our books

I pay for Apple TV for one month every year or so to binge watch the latest series of Slow Horses. Love the books and the series is almost as good imo.

 

[briantrumpet]

My optician separates the roles.

My baker separates the rolls.

Incidentally, UK ophthalmic opticians are qualified and encouraged to spot diseases of the eye as well as comment on things they spot that imply other health conditions. Opticians in France aren't and will only sell glasses. I discovered this when I noticed symptoms of what I discovered was posterior vitreous detachment that started on a walk in France – I described the symptoms to a highly experienced optician friend, and she said if I were in England she'd recommend going to see an optician within 24 hours to get it checked out, but not to bother with an optician in France, as they wouldn't be able to diagnose it at all, so the only option would be an eye hospital. (In fact, she gave me instructions on what to watch out for for any deterioration, but that I'd probably be OK to wait the week before I was coming back to the UK anyway).

 

[icowden]

I'm a fan of A ebooks for secondhand books.
50 books a year at £5 delivered is a lot less than 50 books at £11.99

Kindle Unlimited can be quite good - depends on what you want to read. I also download epubs of books I already own physical copies of and send those to my Kindle account (I refuse to buy the books again when I already have a full collection - e.g. my Discworld collection including at least 2 signed copies - I have paid my dues)

 

[icowden]

and she said if I were in England she'd recommend going to see an optician within 24 hours to get it checked out, but not to bother with an optician in France, as they wouldn't be able to diagnose it at all,

Even in England they are hit and miss. They missed my daughter's Type 1 Diabetes even though they couldn't work out what her prescription was accurately given that her eyesight kept changing.

 

[First Aspect]

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Explains thst there was a change in terminology in the 80s and 90s, thst still hasn't really stuck colloquially.

I had personally learnt to talk by the 80s, and first heard the term optometrist in the 90s in North America. Where colloqually they also dont distunguish, and rarely or never use the term "optician". So "optimetrist" sounds alien to my ears.

 

[Ian H]

Even in England they are hit and miss. They missed my daughter's Type 1 Diabetes even though they couldn't work out what her prescription was accurately given that her eyesight kept changing.

A friend who knows (he's a member of the City of London Spectacle Makers' Guild, and has freedom of the City) recommended an optician. He also advised avoiding the usual chains as they mostly have newly qualified, inexperienced staff.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Most people in the UK who want glasses or eyes testing go to the optician's and don't differentiate between the opthalmic or dispensing optician (in small practices they are often the same person) and don't really care...in the same way as they go to the butchers and don't expect to see the animals slaughtered there. It doesn't really matter outside the profession.

Our optician spotted some change to my then 19 year old son's eyesight that just didn't sit right with him. He referred my son urgently to a private opthalmic consultant and it was eventually discovered it was caused by cancerous tumours that were destroying his optic nerves. He is now partially sighted but it could have been much worse if a problem hadn't been spotted and acted on by the man he still refers to as his optician.