It's not very often that Optician gets the chance to go to some of those high profile bashes that everyone assumes journalists spent their whole time at.
Last night was an exception as two of the Optician team joined CooperVision at the Breast Cancer Care Show as part of Cooper's support for the breast cancer charity's work.
It was a fantastic night which centered around a catwalk show featuring breast cancer sufferers.
CooperVision could not have chosen a better charity to support.
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Some of you lucky people have already seen this week's pink edition of Optician. The colour change is in recognition of Breast Cancer awreness month and CooperVision.
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By the replies and comments looged directly to this blog you might be fooled into thinking no one reads it. Well (gladly) that is not true.
On several occassions I have been accosted by optical ( and Ironman) folk want to talk about things that have been written on this blog, the Ironman Blog, which I had intended to shut down, and my newsletter Optician Direct
So the question is..........
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The more eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a remarkable similarity between the recent articles on CooperVision that appeared in OT and Vision Now and, perish the thought, Optician. The picture below is by way of proof that I, Chris Bennett on August 15th in the year of our Lord 2007 did hereby visit the afore mentioned company and did conduct the afore mentioned interview. That's my notebook in the picture, shorthand and all.

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Just days after leaving Silmo I'm back off to Paris.

This time it's pleasure...I hope.
Continue reading "Ah yes I remember it well -- Paris rematch" »
It is nice to know there are still some things you can rely on.

No this isn't about my socks, or rather my son's socks. This is about the reliability of Optician.
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