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For a non negligible number of people, that is the reality.

Including us. Currently I am hoping my eye op and sight test will allow me to carry on driving. But in the interim, it's home delivery for 95% and a pop to the locals for anything out of stock or that needs eyeballing (meat, veg).

Sadly I am not too far off that as well ARMD is currently at bay, but cataract ops are looming...

The process of finding reliable suppliers of basic clothing online is no different from pissing round the high streets of old...

But I still need to get to the doctors and the hospitals, bookshops and museums..and visit friends

and - you can't get your hair cut on-line

Well generally I dont bother :-)

But there is barber next door to a supernarket.,..

You have friends ? :)

SWMBO has a woman visit. Also a beautician.

I am much nicer than you

Its all a load of rubbish anyway, but good for population control.

Once there's any hint of cataracts, no point in delaying having them done. They only get worse.

There's nothing new about home delivery. Grocer's in Three Bridges delivered to us in his cratey old Bedford Van in the 1950s. Occasionally I'd be told off to return to his shop with him to pick up one or two more items which has been forgotten in the order. And then walk home, about a mile.

There aren't many stores that cater to cyclists here.

Only the mountain coop could provide a poncho, or other styles of rain wear. Ordinary mall shops don't have stuff like that.

And bicycles aren't the future really. We keep an enemies list :-)

Paul

There was even a delivery van featured in Dad's Army - set (authentically) in the early 1940s.

highly recommended, even for low usage IC cars

I think most people in their seventies have a "hint" of cataracts, if the ophthalmologist or optometrist is good enough. I don't see the point in having operations until they are really troublesome, for example when dazzled by bright lights. You may never need the operation.

Neighbour who used to have his own garage still has the morris van that bought in 1988. It still has the original disks because it was made in the era when pads had asbestos in them and were the wearable item.

Now pads are harder and disks are softer, so the latter also need changing after every Nth change of pads.

The Bus Grease Monkey YouTube channel is fascinating. He is an ex-photographer who had an old greyhound bus with the Detroit 2-stroke engine and learned how to do his own maintenance.

Now he does this for a living. Many times he shows the utter disaster that has been carried out by 'professional PSV/HGV repair shops'. At least one poor owner ended up with a wrecked engine after a seemingly simple repair to the cooling system that was ballsed up by the 'experts'.

"N" can be 1, or if you're lucky 2 ...

In my experience the time between being told that I had a mild cataract and the time where I could start seeing the effects was approx 5 years. I then had to wait for another 2 years for a NHS referral.

I have had one eye done and was told about 6 years ago that I was starting to get a cataract in the other eye. I visited an optometrist a couple of months ago and mentioned now may be the time that he referred me to the consultant for an operation, as he had suggested on the visit

As I can afford it I will looking at going private for the cataract operation early next year.

With my first cataract I was finally getting double vision with high contrast objects. It was not bad but with something like a TV aerial against a bright cloudy sky I could see the aerial in focus but with a slight shadow aerial a little bit offset to one side. From a long(ish) distance a red traffic light at night would be seen as a red circle but with overlapping light red circle offset by around 1/6th of the diameter. With one good eye and distance glasses I could still read number plates at the regulation distance etc. but sometime when reading text on screen with reading glasses the text looked doubled. This could be overcome by refocusing my eyes. My second eye is not this bad, yet.

I just wanted a break from surgical intervention for a few months...Ive had enough this year

AIUI, it was specifically 'the dissolution of the monasteries'. They represented the upper end of the Catholic hierarchy, and owned lots of land. The ordinary churches were essentially untouched, and carried on as usual. The incumbent priests simply modified their allegiance as required by the new order. Google "Vicar of Bray".