I’m back in the office after a week off. The plan was a gentle week tackling a few jobs around the house and some nice walks but I’m sporting a sore elbow after Mrs Optician and I decided to break in a new allotment. Just a typical day in the newsroom. Apparently there is a new [...]
Along with most people in the country I have spent a fair amount of time out in the snow over the last week. At the weekend, when things were at their worst in my area, I spend a good few hours clearing the snow, putting out food and water for the birds and walking in the white [...]
The press is often accused of never printing good news but there seem to have been a spate of optician spots brain tumour-type stories of late. The first concerns a brain condition missed by doctors in a mum from Burnley. The Telegraph reports that doctors had missed the condition which was picked up following a visit [...]
I was doing my sports cycling eyewear geek thing last night. Watching the Tour Series of citerium races from around the UK but secretly looking at the eyewear as much as the cycling. The Aberystwyth leg of the series featured some pretty nasty crashes but also the, only recently retired, pro cyclist Malcolm Elliott in some natty [...]
I reported last week on the departure of Optician’s publishing director into retirement and the DeRigo sunglasses (A nice pair of DeRigo Police mirrored blue aviators S8299 ) the Optician team saw him off with. As far as sunglasses went the day couldn’t have been better. Last friday afternoon in Littlehampton it was at [...]
I must admit I don’t normally bother exploring my Twitter followers’ posts but for some reason I had a bit of a peruse this morning. A student follower, Gemma, had a post about an elephant in contact lenses that looked quite interesting. This linked into an a website called Animal Tracks where it says you can get your [...]
I had the pleasure of attending the Sight Care Conference in Birmingham on Monday. Apart from the early start, alarm at 0530, a good day it was too. The finniest reaction of the day to come from the audience was to convenience store association chief James Lowman. He introduced his, very interesting, talk by admitting he didn’t know [...]
Pinterest has been creating a stir in the States for sometime but that now seems to have transferred across the pond.The idea, popular among ordinary people especially women, is that the site is like an electronic pinboard. You can pin pictures of anything up but lifestyle items, crafts, fashion and the like have been the [...]
Optics has a new celebrity in Goodlooking Optics’ Garry Kousoulou. His recent appearance on Channel 4′s Daddy Daycare has moved the optical profession onto a whole new level. A cohort of North London’s day-cared-for kids are now more aware of the optical business than ever before. Joking aside, Garry came across (in his own inimitable style) really well. His passion [...]
They say if you stand in Oxford Circus ( Piccadilly actually) for long enough you will hear every language in the world, it certainly seems to be the place to meet people. It was a cold day on Wednesday so you might expect people to be indoors, apparently not. I foolishly walked from Waterloo to [...]
Reed Business also hosts the following websites for the optometry industry:
| Website | Business |
|---|---|
| Vision Expo East | Exhibition |
| Optician CET | Magazine |
| Vision ExpoWest | Exhibition |
| Optometry Book Shop | Book Shop |
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