JeffM

Lucy said

Sorry Lucy no excuse because I am older than you and I learnt how to do it. :P

Best wishes

Jeff

Lucy

Well Jeff, that's certainly an encouragement to me, and as I said at the end of my above message, I'm keen to learn so I'll have a go, following the method you suggest, and hope it works!

Thanks again!

Love, Lucy

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Smudgeur

Lucy I have been delighted to read your stories - especially as you mention glasses quite a lot - these, along with heels, seemed to have played a significant part in your life.

Glasses and heels are my dual fascinations, to find a woman who regularly wears both is wonderful - especially as you are London based like myself.

I will be keeping an eye out for the bespectacled and heeled beauty next time I walk down Oxford Street and Bond Street!

Do you still regularly wear glasses? If so what style and prescription?

Many thanks

Smudgeur

JeffM

Pleasure dear Lady.

Jeff

Lucy

Hi Smudgeur!

Yes, I wear glasses, although my vanity leads me to take them off on dates, balls, social occasions, having my photo taken etc. Also, I sometimes leave them off when walking along the street to kid myself that I can get by without them! I can't get on with contact lenses - I always feel as if I've got a pair of big lumps of grit in my eyes.

I expect you've read in my stories how I first discovered I needed glasses, and the odd passing mention since. I am short sighted, so I need them for distance, but can read without them and have therefore (until now) resisted the idea of bifocals or reading glasses. However, my short sightedness has gradually progressed over the years, so I have to hold the page quite close to read without glasses.

I have several styles of frames - one very "secretarial" with thin black frames and thin oblong lenses. I also have a "stodgy manageress pair" in heavy tortoiseshell horn-rims, and another pair the total opposite - my "Glen Miller" rimless ones which, if I keep the lenses very clean, hardly looks as if I am wearing glasses. Also I have a middle-of-the road gold-rimmed pair and a similar pair of fancier gold adornment running both ways from the hinges, and a similar pair to the gold-rimmed ones but in the more modern thin-black-wire finish. I've kept a few pairs of my sixties and seventies pairs in the evocative styles of the day ("Nana Mouskouri", "Michael Caine", Dame Edna Everidge" etc. etc, but the prescriptions are very out-of-date on those.

I won't say more now, because very appropriately my glasses feature pretty soon in the sequence of my story instalments. You fellas always have the knack of asking about things that I'm about to write about, and I don't want to spoil the story in advance. You must be psychic!

Love, Lucy

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Smudgeur

Hi Lucy

Thanks for the reply I am as envious about your frame collection as your shoes! I am quite partial to the styles of the late 70s/early 80s myself - particularly the "drop temple" style (upside down type glasses that many ladies wore during that period). Did you ever have any of those?

If you ever want to sell any of your old frames, I'm a bit of a collector so would be delighted to buy them from you. Send me a personal message if you're interested.

Kind regards

Smudgeur

Paul (North-East)

Wow Lucy! Your excellent stories back to back make quite an epic already. I think you may have to consider a trilogy when it comes to the book!

Over 3500 views also! Very well deserved I might add.

Love, Paul.

Lucy

Hi Smudgeur! Thanks for your kind comments about my glasses! As I said in a fairly early instalment, when the optician (by the way, they don't call themselves good old straightforward "opticians" any more, do they? They're all fancy "optometrists" and "oculists" and "opthalmic practitioners" and so on!) told me that I needed glasses, I was devasted to think of spending the rest of my life as a frump. However, when people like you and other fellas are enthusiastic about my glasses, it makes me feel a lot better!

It is very sweet of you to enquire about buying one or two pairs, but sadly I don't think I have any at the moment that I could part with. Half of them are current and still worn, and the few old ones have been kept for the special reason that the hold happy memories of each particular period of my life. However, follow my Story - there's a bit focussing on my glasses soon (if you'll excuse the pun!).

Love, Lucy

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Lucy

Hi JeffM!

I did it! I followed your advice. I wrote Instalment No. 42 on Microsoft Word and then copied-and-pasted it on to Lucy's Forum, and then copied-and-pasted it again on to this MegaForum! I'll now be able to carry on doing that in future. Thank you very much for helping me! You're a darling!

Love, Lucy

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JeffM

Hi Lucy
Seems I have made my self and a couple of others redundant by passing on these "copy and paste secrets".

It was a pleasure though so I am not complaining.

Jeff