First time for me.

I saw Olivia had bought a bare cake that had instructions so I decided to make some icing and cut up some strawberries that have been affordably priced of late. My icing began as my usual runny mess shown here, it's something I abandoned many a year ago due to being consistently bad at it.

Then after some more cooling I had another go at whipping it and I received the shock of it looking like icing. Now I hope Olivia doesn't get mad when she returns from her well paid casual job that is keeping us alive.

I'm getting pretty happy with my sight now, it's a real joy to see how bright my photos are, cataracts sneak up on a person and I waited far too long to do anything, not helped either by the hospital keeping my name at the back of the pecking order.

Cataract operation, done.

Things went pretty well, it's a simple and quick operation so I didn't expect any drama.
The downside is at this point it's astigmatic, but maybe that might change, otherwise I may make up a set of fancy reading specs for using the computer.

Under the cover was this, they don't like us punters doing this so don't tell them.

When I got home Olivia noticed it was bloodshot, but it did have a bit of work done to it so only to be expected.

Useless tomorrow.

These good old specs shall be useless to me tomorrow, they're already half useless as I'd already taken the left lens out six months ago, tomorrow my right eye (fingers crossed) will have cataract surgery and hopefully except for closeup things spectacles will no longer be needed for Jimby.
We're blessed with an excellent health system here but be warned that you have to be very patient I've been graded category two which means being done within 90 days but they're quite a bit more cunning than to skip along at that pace, in my case after they did my left eye I then had to wait almost 90 (the actual 90 days would have been on a weekend and the hospital doesn't work on the weekend) days for them to inspect their work and then put my right eye into wait mode, another 90 days.
At least my mind can rest easily knowing I haven't jumped a queue, although to some respect I did when I had advised them that according to legal standards I was blind in my left eye then (sub 6/60) which now my right eye is pretty well as bad. That raised me from category three to two which lends me to believe that category one (30 days) must only exist for important people and girls under 16.
It's a gunna be nice to see properly for about the first time in my life after a lifetime of astigmatic myopia.
I sat on these specs a couple of months ago and went meh, just glue them together it won't matter.