At some point one of the two of us knocked my glasses into the lake where they sunk seemingly without a trace. In my book this was not down to me as I had carefully placed them by the post of the dock where I could find them when I climbed back out.
Best Beloved swore they were not on the dock when he came down at the beginning of my swim so could not possibly have knocked them in when failing to follow my instructions on how to hand me the large inflatable ring or my flippers. Actually, it was me who dragged my flippers off the side and wrangled them onto my feet. Maybe… But this is NOT a mea culpa.
Despite the best efforts of our menfolk and a lot of poking around with sticks while supper got cold, the glasses could not be retrieved. My sister watched traffic incident videos on her tablet while I went off to find my spares so I didn’t have to resort to flailing around in the dark in my prescription sunglasses.
The question of how much it would cost to replace the specs was muted. They were Specsavers so about £250, I muttered. “But I will claim it on insurance.” For which I fork out a small fortune every year and rarely make a claim. Except for the brand new paperwhite Kindle I left on a plane on a trip to Copenhagen.
Brother-in-law transformed himself into my hero overnight by retrieving the glasses from the lake at the crack of dawn. A man on mission is not easily thwarted. Best Beloved is a generous soul and sighed with relief as I adjusted my vision back to normal, after the strain of my spares pulling my lenses into focus.
The problem with glasses is that they break and you can lose them. As I tell my students, the safest place to put them is on the end of your nose. But you should not wear them in water. There is a good chance that they will slide off or someone will kick them into your face. However there is a solution to being blind as a bat and liking fresh water swimming…. prescription goggles….
Minnie’s Musings 
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