Now closed: win one of six pairs of Eyejusters

Reading emails and of course gransnet!

reading cooking instructions on packets

Ive got two pairs of glasses at the minute and I have to keep swapping them about. I like to knit and watch TV, so when Im doing both the TV is blurry. Also reading the menus at coffee shops (the ones that are on the wall behind the counter).

Reading, sewing, eyebrow plucking, looking at photos, all that kind of stuff.

I had to Google 'loupe'

I need reading glasses for any close up work. The warm weather recently, that has since disappeared, meant sandals and the first time I needed my readers to see to apply nail polish to my toes
I need a pair in every room and bag, specially when needing to read labels or menus.

Tying tiny fishing flies, but more importantly, attaching said tiny flies onto very fine nylon line. My reading glasses only just cope these days, and at odd times when I have come out without them, I have had to borrow DH's or abandon the day. Coupled with my poor eyesight, my increasing lack of manual dexterity and pinch grip are beginning to make me wonder whether I should migrate to 'the dark side', where bunging a maggot or worm onto a hook and dangling it in the water would be so much easier and more convenient! ?

What a brilliant invention! Never mind asking us what we wear our reading glasses for, ask us what our reading glasses still don't help with! I wear my reading glasses for so many things - reading, sewing, craft work, computing, watching TV, checking the ingredients of something in the shops, consulting the map when navigating on a journey.

However, there are many instances where they are not strong enough and I have to resort to trying to keep a loupe in my eyesocket while using two hands to do some fiddly job, like replacing the minute screws when they fall out of my specs, getting out splinters, deciphering tiny print.

Only today I had to untie a knot that had formed itself in a nylon thread. The only way to get it out was by using a pin as a marlin spike to get into the knot and tease it apart. Without the loupe I couldn't see exactly where to insert it, with the loupe in place I had only a few seconds to work before letting go of the thread to pick up the fallen lens from the table and put it back in my eye. Most frustrating (I did succeed eventually)

Cross stitch. Threading needles. Plucking the upper lip I'm blind as a bat and wear contact lenses normally, but some close work just defeats me without a bit of extra help.

I wear contact lenses that bring my eyesight back up to needing reading glasses I'm not entirely sure how this combination was arrived at, but I think it had something to do with the contacts not being strong enough for doing craftwork.

So I use reading glasses for the 'puter, for knitting and crocheting, and for peering over.

Quilting especially using the sewing machine, I have to buy prescription reading glasses as I need a different prescription for each eye. Sight is much worse in left eye so these would solve the problem.

Er...... reading things.