A frustrating day

began with a dash to the opticians where Pat got her glasses. The social security (secu) cannot reimburse us because they can't accept a British prescription. Could the optician do a prescription for us ?

Here I must explain that in France you go to an ophthalmologist to get your eyes tested, and to the optician to buy your glasses. There are not enough ophthalmos, so you have to hunt them down and they have waiting lists months long. Opticians are on every street corner, however. (If this seems odd to you, well it seems odd to me, too).

Anyway, the optician couldn't do anything. They tried ringing a friendly ophthalmo but got no reply. Then they said "Could your doctor do a prescription for you?" I dash back home, phone the secu and they say yes. Hurrah ! Now all I have to do is explain to the doctor and pay the (reimbursable) fee.

Then to the student centre to have a nice talk with Sammy about the way forward, and then to print out lots of our FAC prospectuses and posters. Unfortunately we print these on inkjet printers, it takes a long time and it is very wasteful of paper because lots of them come out wonqué. Still, we have a lot of them now.

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