The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Contact lenses

We can not afford £40 per month for DD1 to have contacts but she is finding glasses a real problem in sports, especially football. I seem to remember a NP mentioned a scheme whereby you got all the set up for contacts and 1 pair of glasses a year for a fixed fee then paid for lenses on an as you used them basis that worked out quite cheaply if you did not use that many sets of lenses. Can anyone remember this?

Possibly me.

Boots contact lens by post.

It includes an annual contact lens check-up, any further check up or problems you need and then there are 3 different contact lens delivery options. The cheapest is packs every 3 months, so enough lenses to where them one day in three. The beauty of the scheme is that when you build up sufficient stock of lenses you just phone them to put the direct debit on hold for a few months. The maximum is a 6 month freeze. So for occasional users you only would be paying for 2 months in every 12.
You also get half price glasses, but you may find cheaper elsewhere.

You also receive advantage points (Boots loyalty scheme) for your payments and get 10% off any boots own brand product loaded to your Advantage card.

Doozergirl

Conrad wrote: »

Is this convenient in terms of Liverpool to Hammersmith? I am about to start looking at the Tube maps online so I know what I'm doing*


It's just me an my eldest Son for a treat so I want to go somewhere with a good choice of restaurants and not too close to the venue (I dislike mega busy restaurants where the theatre crowd all at once descend, hence not wanting to eat in Hammersmith)


*EDIT> so I think I will take the Central then Piccadilly lines, meaning S Ken is en-route. Now to establish how close S Ken tube is to restaurants - v close I would guess


Cheers

If you search for 'Rocca di Papa' in London on trip advisor, it then gives you the option to search other nearby restaurants on a map as well.

ivyleaf

michaels Is she old enough now to cope with monthly disposables rather than daily? They need cleaning every evening but are cheaper than daily ones.

Alternatively, my grandson uses daily disposables but wears them only on days he's doing sport, so doesn't need a pair for every day of the month. (No help if your DD does sport every day, of course!)
He has prescription goggles for swimming.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

... especially football....

The other month we were discussing activities etc.
Drop that one.
Problem solved.

Conrad

Pyxis wrote: »

Invisible paint?

Did it show up under infrared or ultraviolet or something?

And are you talking about the IRA days?

Sorry to be dense.

Yes IRA


I cant recall much about the paint but know Dad helped develop it and more accurately the cameras that tracked it from helo's.


His office was like some sort of Man cave I would imagine (we were not allowed to visit)

Conrad

So I've decided on Islington for dinner - all in one road, nice n easy to peruse, but thanks for the tips, bound to come in handy one day

Pyxis

If you've got the time, there's a really funny thread going on at the mo in DT about the discussions re. changing the organ donor default from active opt-in to active opt-out.

Take your popcorn and sweetie-bag with you!

Conrad wrote: »

Yes IRA
I cant recall much about the paint but know Dad helped develop it and more accurately the cameras that tracked it from helo's.
)

Are you sure it wasn't lemon juice?

chris_m

Conrad wrote: »

So I've decided on Islington for dinner - all in one road, nice n easy to peruse, but thanks for the tips, bound to come in handy one day

Well, you won't be able to go to The Angel, Islington (£100 on the Monopoly board), coz it's now a Co-op bank.
There is a Wetherspoons called The Angel next door, but it wouldn't be the same :rotfl:

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Well, you won't be able to go to The Angel, Islington (£100 on the Monopoly board), coz it's now a Co-op bank.
There is a Wetherspoons called The Angel next door, but it wouldn't be the same :rotfl:

Oh what a shame!

How dare they!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Are you sure it wasn't lemon juice?

Is that waterproof?