So glad I went to Specsavers!

I had a feeling that Specsavers would ask me for a review after my visits for new glasses recently – they were extremely helpful and friendly – so I wasn’t surprised when the email came in last week. I set to the task immediately as, if I don’t do something straight away, it might never see the light of day again. Hence, I was not expecting to receive the same request from Specsavers this morning. Perhaps I hadn’t submitted my review correctly, I wondered, so I dutifully wrote another, less wordy review – “Excellent glasses and great service!” (well, I had done it all before!).

Now, at the same time, I remembered that I’d promised to go to Tripadvisor and write a rave review for our favourite fish and chip at Newton Abbot. After much ado installing Tripadvisor onto my mobile phone, and having to spend a lot of time trying to find the “Jacksons Fish and Chips” entry on the site, I had become rather unenthusiastic about carrying out my promise; so when at last I made it into the ratings section I was terse yet flattering. “Great fish and chips!” I wrote and left it at that, hoping no-one would notice that I was actually fed-up.

A short while ago an email came in with the heading, “Your review of Specsavers.co.uk has just been published.” Well I thought I’d check it out this time, seeing as I hadn’t done so previously. I’ve been chuckling to myself – I don’t know how the confusion came about… My Specsaver review read, “Grey fish and chips!” On that basis, I thought I’d give a grey wolf eel fish a nice new pair of specs.

And here are the before and after photographs of a much-loved Porch family photo that had seen better days. I am the startled baby.