[pendy]

I was lucky, I was told I needed glasses at the age of about 11, and my mother stumped up for a pair of pink pearly frames, a bit winged, not quite Edna Everage. I seem to remember being rather proud of them, but eventually got fed up with specs all the time and switched to lenses (gas permeable, used to sleep in them, the lot). Having had bilateral cataracts, when they removed the cataracts they inserted corrective lenses into my eye, so I have in essence contact lenses INSIDE my eye. Absolutely brilliant - except that I have to wear glasses for reading. TIP: get reading glasses prescription from optician, if it's 2.5 or less, nip down to the pound shop and buy them there!