Lack-lustre

Onion skins (in case you hadn’t guessed) being collected for an eco-dyeing project.

The problem is that I can’t summon up the enthusiasm to get started - which is very unlike me. From my last few lack-lustre blips some may have suspected that I’m not 100% at the moment. I think it’s an accumulation of things and is not something I have experienced before. I think I never really recovered from that awful virus I had, I always think I can shrug these things off . . . not this time. The weather doesn’t help, nor the fact that my knee is bad and I know I have to do something about it.

Then last week I had blurry vision - in the eye that had the cataract removed. Very worrying. Unfortunately our optician was closed until today (most businesses in Appleby close during Fair week). But this morning I rang up and my wonderful optometrist could fit me in. It was an ‘interesting’ journey through the end of the Fair traffic and rubbish etc but I got there just in time for my appointment. Richard did a thorough examination and told me what I suspected from my interim research - I’m one of the 10/15% of cataract patients needing a tiny (10 second apparently) laser treatment. Now I just wait for an appointment for this to happen. Ironic that the only surgery I have ever had and . . .

Nevertheless I feel so lucky that we have such a wonderful local optician, so supportive. And maybe that’s one thing off my mind and I can concentrate on getting my usual enthusiasm back.