The joy of specs
Aug 16, 2021
3 minutes
Image: LMPC via Getty Images
If the pain of purchasing these particular spectacles was borne mainly in the wallet, my ego was correspondingly bruised. Time has been reasonably kind to me. I still have a full head of mostly brown hair and all my own teeth. But here were my eyes showing their age, as the optician tactfully explained. As windows to my soul, they’d always been somewhat faulty, myopic with a slight astigmatism, and needing double glazing since I was
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