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  • Staggering tales of non-compliance

    I'm sure everyone has their own favourite horror stories of contact lens non-compliance but some things never cease to amaze. In my build up to the Alpe d'Huez triathlon I thought it would be useful to try out some extended wear contact lenses...

  • A sad day for cyling..... and optics

    Yesterday marked the passing of cycling legend Laurent Fignon from cancer. He sprang to prominence in the early 1980s as one of the youngest winners of the Tour de France and went on to become famous for losing the three week-long, 3,000km+ event by just...

  • What an undersized world we live in

    It's amazing what you find out if you talk to your children. I was chatting to my son recently about school when the subject of teachers cropped up, not liking them mainly. He then proceeded to tell me a story about the day everyone took a magazine...

  • The calm before the storm??

    Let's hope so. It has been eerily quiet of late and realising times would be quiet in the office I thought it would be good to get a few visits in the diary. While that can be nice for a while we all need some commercial activity to get the business...

  • We gotta app for that

    Optician is always keen to try out the latest gizmos and so we signed up to one of the latest iPhone apps designed to measure your PD. While this might look like someone playing Botticelli or doing a very poor Adolf Hitler impression it is in fact the...

  • We gotta app for that

    Optician is always keen to try out the latest gizmos and so we signed up to one of the latest iPhone apps designed to measure your PD. While this might look like someone playing Botticelli or doing a very poor Adolf Hitler impression it is in fact the...

  • Unbelieveable --shot for sunglasses

    When I first saw this story about a young man being shot for a pair of Cartier sunglasses I thought it had to be a one off. Think again. This story about a lad shot for rusfusing to hand over his sunglasses while leaving a night club is truly shocking...

  • Radio Daze

    My first week back from the Alpe d'Huez triathlon was a bit of a blur. Everyone seems to be on hopliday at the moment ( as was I) which makes life harder for those of us left at home. As my second week started I had a few of interesting telephone...

  • Be careful what you put online

    Hot on the heels of the news that burglars are using social media networking site like Facebook and Twitter to target housholds. It seems that posting the wrong thing online could also hamper your chances of landing a job. A report from the US found that...

  • It's publishing Jim but not as we know it

    I've nearly always worked on weekly magazines so publishing a book is a bit of a culture shock. But that is excatly what Optician has done. I now have in my hand a lovely little book on Glaucoma based on the recent series and featuring all of the...

  • High class assault on optics

    Now you expect it from the Daily Mail but not the Torygraph.There again perhaps it is a sign of the times but on Tuesday the Telegraph published 5 ways to...Save money on your eye care. Cue the top 40 hit parade music. Coming in at number one is get a...

  • Driving change

    I used to know a really good European joke about what if the French cooked and made love like they drive. It ran through all the nationalities and as ever the UK was the butt of the joke. These days of course we are all European so it's only fitting...

  • Driving change

    I used to know a really good European joke about what if the French cooked and made love like they drive. It ran through all the nationalities and as ever the UK was the butt of the joke. These days of course we are all European so it's only fitting...

  • Breakfast in Worthing

    Readers of my other blog will be familiar with my sporting exploits but to cheer everyone up post World Cup and post Wimbledon I thought I would share this one with you. The most noteable optometric facts are Optician Son #2 wore Maui Jims while I opted...

  • Plus ca change

    It's surprising what you find down the back of the drawers when you move. S omeone has just handed me a copy of Optician ( and the photographic trade journal as it was known) from March 22 1912. One of the largest articles is a report on the seventh...
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