Wednesday 20 August 2014

Plums on a tray




Destined for a tray bake plum cake.
Riveting stuff.
I blame my broken glasses.
Someone sat on them.

What were they doing in your pocket you ask?
Well sometimes I would rather look unframed about me
 with a compromised focus
than look clearly 
in a restricted field.
So I put them in my coat pocket.
Then I take the coat off and put it on the bench
and someone sits on the coat.

That'll be £60 to mend the snapped bridge, says the optician.
So compromised focus it is for the time being.
I have an assortment of old glasses to press into service
until I'm due for another eye test.




14 comments:

  1. Not good. But cast your mind back to schooldays - wasn't it a common sight, children with broken specs sturdily strapped together with stretchy Elastoplast? It could be a cool look if worn with aplomb. Just sayin'.....

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    1. This remedy was seriously attempted but there wasn't enough purchase. Then my husband (the guilty party) wanted to use a small nail as a brace across the bridge for the plaster to stick to. I drew the line there.

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  2. Lucille, sorry to hear of the case of the broken glasses, but I must say that your green tray of splendid plums is a lovely photograph. Carrying on, I'd also like to tell you how much I liked the plates's displays in your prior post.

    What a delight it is to visit here! xo

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  3. Such a lovely tray, though: the right shade of green and looking a bit worn without being artificially worned. I mean distressed. The comment box spellchecker doesn't like 'worned'.

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  4. Specs. are alarmingly fragile , irritating to wear and unflattering unless you're Sofia Loren . But hard to do without .
    I've been known to superglue broken bits of mine back but I agree with Rachel , Elastoplast works best ( better still back in the days when National Health specs. only came in Elastoplast pink ).
    Those lovely "real " plums look delicious , much nicer than the very purple shop ones .

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  5. Questioning my sanity letting my 18 year old daughter go alone tomorrow for new specs, as I spent too much time taking her old ones in for repair last year. So happy "sturdy" is in style this year!

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  6. My husband sat on my specs too. I took them to Boots, where I got them, to get new frames and to my amazement the lady said they were under guarantee because they were less than a year old. Yes, but my husband sat on them, I said. Surely you don't guarantee against that? Yes, she said, and gave me new frames free.

    Good, eh?

    Those plums look LOVELY.

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  7. Oh, I sat on my glasses, took them to the local Spec Savers and got a similar pair a few hours later...

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  8. I have the same reading glasses that I bought from Poundland in Eastbourne two years ago. I see that the Poundland is now closed. Bummer, I was hoping to get an extra pair! HA!
    Those plums look plumb good.

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  9. My daughter M likes to go around unfocused, too -- seems so odd to me.

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  10. Your vision still seems to be spot on when it comes to photographing the plums.

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  11. I think the apple green that they painted MMM's bedroom has lodged in your subconscious.

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