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further to yesterday's unfortunate incident involving spectacles ...

I actually broke the arm, rather than the lens. And as they are almost four years old, it was probably just old age that did for them (I can sympathise ..). I did have Vision Express insurance when I got them, but they never reminded me about it, and it wasn't renewed.

perlmonger has very kindly mended them, in some Heath Robinson-esque manner involving a plastic drinking straw and some red sticky tape. So now I look like a pikey, but at least I can see again - the spex I was wearing were giving me eye strain.

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a few weeks ago I bought a rather linen-y hooded top in a shop in Glastonbury, and I dragged it out to wear yesterday for the first time.

it bore a label (claiming to be printed on handmade paper) stating the following:

I'm made with 100% organic cannabis hemp. Vegetable dyed or natural colour.

Fairtrade product, no child labour, no sweat shops. Our workers work when they want to.

No fertilizers, no pesticides, no chemical dyes, no chemicals at all.

Tree free. The raw materials for this product are plants gathered from the surrounding Himalayan mountains.

Handmade by the peoples of the Kingdom of Nepal.

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all of which is really nice.

but I bet they *still* got paid peanuts ...