Up early as I had an eye test in the city. Which meant a walk into the village to outside the school to catch the bus.
Luckily, it was a nice morning, warm and sunny and we set off in plenty of time so I could take a steady stroll down there. We got there earlier than we planned, so we got the 9.10 am bus ( too early to use our bus passes, so for once we paid) but that got us into the city for around 9.50am.
Having a bit of time to kill we took the tram up to the theatre, crossed over and walked to TKMAXX at Liberty Square. Fatal. We went downstairs on the lift and yet again they'd moved the Halloween display. First off Kev found an iridescent purple cauldron planter and as we had one to replace in the kitchen window that was added to the basket, soon followed by another vintage style bucket this time a bat one, complete with fangs, so cute. It hangs up near to the cat one. Kev made it a party hat similar to the cat one. I had a voucher to spend from my birthday ( thanks, Sis) which easily covered them. So not so naughty after all.
We grabbed a coffee in Maccy Ds before getting the tram back down to Market Square and went to the opticians.
All went well with my eye test, no new glasses needed, but I did want some new lenses. The ones I have are two years old and that's about their maximum life for gas permeable ones. Not wanting any problems in Florida I thought I'd replace them, and to be honest while Im still working too...
That was when I got handed over to a young girl to set up a subscription so next time my lenses will be paid for. She was beyond useless. What should have been a ten minute job, took 45 minutes in total. I nearly walked out at one point. She hadn't a clue how to do this task she'd been set. And had to keep disappearing to ask someone else. It would have been so much easier had she admitted she didn't know what she was doing and fetched someone else who did. The catalogue of errors was so unprofessional, I was embarrassed for her.
Eventually I got out of there, only to get a phone call ten minutes later to say she had "forgotten" to book an appointment to pick up and try on these new lenses. For God's sake... I was not impressed, and if it wasn't for setting up a subscription for my lenses,I might not have gone back. Kev went to sit outside because he was getting more and more angry at how incompetent the whole thing seemed. I just hope they get my lenses order right, if not they can shove them where the sun doesn't shine...
Anyway, we had lunch at O'Neil's afterwards then got the bus home. It poured with rain as we headed towards the railway station, dreading the long walk home, we lucked out as it was dry here in Cotgrave for the time it took to walk back from the village. We had got home before we got the cloudburst here.
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