wantglasses.co.uk

Ive recently had to go and have my eyes tested again, i noticed a little while ago that my vision wasnt as sharp as it had been so i decided to go get them tested.

Walking through tescos the other day they had a promotion on so I decided to bite the bullet and get it done. I dont pay for my tests because of tax credits and get help towards new glasses.

The bottom line is my eyesights got worse, Ive dropped from -1.25 to -1.75

The last couple of pairs Ive had have been bought online from www.glassesdirect.com Ive never had any problems with them but decided try another site this time.

Ive ordered these

http://www.wantglasses.co.uk/WebsitePages/A47-p-18.html?nextimage=145

and another pair

http://www.wantglasses.co.uk/WebsitePages/539-p-114.html

Ive got both pairs for £35!

Seeing as I get a voucher worth £35.50 to help against the cost, they’ve cost me £3 odd postage….

Bargain!

I’ll update as to what they are like when they arrive.

All Ive got to do now is post off my NHS voucher!

 

 

*UPDATE*

 

My card WAS charged despite having been told is wouldnt be!

Im now overdrawn facing a bank charge and the rest of the money I did have in my account has been swallowed up because someone in customer services cant do their job properly!

Im not at all impressed with this company, and if it wasnt for the fact that these are the only glasses Ive seen that I really like I would be cancelling my order!

Here’s a copy of the post Ive now put on www.moneysavingexpert.com and will be posting on other sites too.

Ive had a complete farce of an order with http://www.wantglasses.co.uk
I rang to check about the NHS vouchers and how I could process the order with one.
I was told to put the order in online, and that although the card details would be taken I wouldnt be charged if I emailed customer services and told them about my voucher. I was assured twice during this conversation that no charges would be made against this account until the voucher had been processed.
I did so, immediatly sent the email through to them and told them my order details.
A couple of hours later, I recieved one back:

Hopefully seeing as this post is coming up on the first page of a google search for wantglasses then people will read this!

Hi Emma,[/font]
Thanks for the email. I have noted this on the system and will wait for your form to come through. We will go ahead with your order in the meantime. I have told accounts not to process your payment however they informed the payment went through… so i have refunded this immediately to your card. Sorry about that!
Hope this ok. Please call or email if you have any more queries

All well and good, but now I have gone overdrawn, the little bit of money in my account that was supposed to be paying for my little boys nursery session this afternoon has been swallowed up and Im now being chaqrged for it!
All because someone from the technical department cant be bothered to add an extra option on the payments page!
After speaking to customer services Ive now got to go and request a bank statement from my bank, (and pay for it!!) go and post it through to them and have to wait for t to come into my account. This Im told could take up to 10 working days!!!!!
Im disgusted! I rang and checked this information before putting an order in in good faith.
Now Im stuck at home with no money and a little boy who’s very upset that he cant go to nursery this afternoon.
Not impressed at all!!!!!!
Not really a good impression to give a new customer is it
The worst thing is that they have my contact details yet didnt even have the decency to ring and explain the situation themselves. Just sent a fairly flippant email!!!!!!!!!!

*Second update!*

In the end I actually went into town, borrowed some money from my other half and went and paid the money into the bank so I didnt get any bank charges. Highly imcinvenient especially with two toddlers in tow!

The glasses arrived quite quickly (Although I suspect this was because of the stink I kicked up more than anything!) On the day they arrived I got a call from customer services, “just to check everything was ok” and the guy I spoke to casually mentioned they had read my comments on the money saving expert forum…..

Yup, I said, nothing but the truth though. He then replied that it was a mistake that I’d been charged, although I find this hard to believe seeing as the site uses and automatic payment system, so every time someone places an order the payment is taken straight away. Unless a voucher code is created for NHS vouchers to be used I cant see how it will be stopped from happening again, but meh! lol

All in all the glasses have arrived, they arent bad quality for the price and I suppose if I had been paying for them I would have been quite happy with the site.

All in all I would reccomend people using the telepone ordering system if they are going to order using an NHS voucher….

I thought I was dying….

I have a major phobia about being suck, it was a nightmare when I was pregnant as you ca imagine….

I get hot, sweaty and panic about choking, I burst into tears and tremble even before Im sick! I would actually ratherfeel like complete shite for a week than have an hour of puking.

Luke’s had a stomach bug which seems to be passing round at the minute, so because of sods law, yesterday morning I came down with it!

4am I woke up and starting throwing up, This carried on until about 9am and in the end I had to admit defeat and ring Karl up to come home until Vicky finished at 11 to come and help me with the kids.

I managed to get them downstairs but as soon as I had done I had to run back to the bathroom…..

I swear to god I must have bought up everything Ive eaten for the last week and a half, I seriously thought I was going to die! Im the first to admit, I get frightened when Im being sick, the thought f choking puts the fear of god into me and I turn into a trembling mess!

I spent the whole day in bed only coming down to puke up in the toilet every so often…

Ive not felt that bad for years.

Its obviously the same thing that Lukes had so now everythings bein scrubbed! lol.

Ive used a bottle of bleach in the last day,the whole place stinks of it.

I hate being ill

The Pain Doesnt stop when the baby arrives……

I’ve recently realised that just because your lovely baby arrives and has just either put you through heel during labour or made sure you need months of recovering after a c section the pain doesnt stop.

A couple of weeks ago Jack was having a cuddle on the sofa, turned round and slipped, headbutting me in the process…… half a bottle of foundation, lots of powder and shed loads of concealor later and you couldnt really see the two resulting black eyes!

Tonight we were messing about as I was getting Jack ready for bed, he sat on my knee getting his trousers on and threw himself backwards and yup, you guessed it… Headbutted me again!!!!!

My nose immeadiatly started bleeding, Luke started wailing, Mummy said several hundred “Grown up naughty words” and her nose expolded allover her nose… Now even an hour later its still bleeding occasionally the dull throbbing in my face is getting worse and Its getting more difficult to breathe through my nose! lol.

I’ve had a quick feel along the bridge of my nose and while its not got a bump or lump there its cracking like mad.

I darent look to see if its bruised, the thought of sitting in front of a mirror tomorrow and then having to explain to everyone that my two year old has broken my nose isnt an appealing one lol

this is why hanging should be bought back….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7312730.stm

Killer who posed with body jailed

Price posed for a mobile phone picture alongside the victim’s body A murderer who stabbed a man 80 times and then posed for a picture next to the dead body has been jailed for life at the High Court in Glasgow. Stephen Price, 20, was told he must spend at least 15 years in prison. He earlier admitted killing 24-year-old Scott Burgess in his Paisley home between August and September last year. His partner, Karen Duncan, was jailed for seven years for culpable homicide. Her sister, Irene, was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders’ institute. Karen Duncan and Price posed for a mobile phone picture alongside the victim’s body, after they washed Mr Burgess’ blood from themselves in a bath. After the murder, the court heard how they buried their clothing in a black bag along with the murder weapons - a knife and a screwdriver - and the mobile phone. Bloodstained carpet was cut out and put down a rubbish chute. Scott Burgess’ body was found nine days after his death The judge, Lord Brodie, said: “It was an unprovoked attack on an unarmed man in his own home showing gross level of depravity. “You are all young and all had difficult backgrounds. “You were drinking on the night in question. However, that may explain your behaviour, but provides no excuse.” He told Price: “You planned to assault Scott Burgess in his own flat. “Once inside you locked the door and carried out a very long and unprovoked attack and I can see no reason for it whatsoever.” Derek Ogg QC told the court there was no motive for the horrific crime apart from the fact that Price believed Mr Burgess had made some derogatory remarks about his friends. “So furious was the assault Price managed to stab himself in the arm,” he said. The scene of the knife attack at Mr Burgess’ home in Paisley “Mr Burgess collapsed into unconsciousness or death and Price then posed with his body, brandishing his knife and smiling whilst one of the Duncan girls photographed him on a mobile phone camera.” Paul McBride QC, representing Price, said: “It will be of little or no consolation to those who loved Scott Burgess, but Mr Price says he wishes me to express his deep heartfelt remorse for what he has done.” Irene Duncan had admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice. The 18-year-old will be supervised for a year after her release. Price’s 17-year-old girlfriend admitted culpable homicide after twice stabbing Mr Burgess with a screwdriver. She will be monitored in the community for three years after her release. QCs Frances McMenamin and Donald Findlay, who represented Karen Duncan and Irene Duncan respectively, said that they become involved because of drugs and coercion by Price

Absolutly disgusting! These people were laughing about what they had done. they blatently didnt care if they got caught and made a mokery of the fact they had just murdered someone by posing in photo’s.

Sick morons who should be given the death sentance instead of clogging up our jails and costing us money. They are mentaly ill, they are supposedly “normal” human beings (I use that term loosly and know the dangers of drug taking, drinking and know that chances are after appeals etc they will probably get out early.

Dispicable…

Caricatures

I found this caricature of Us both at a weeding a couple of years ago. there was someone walking round drawing them between courses to keep people entertained! Brilliat idea I think.

Have a look at the drawing then look at the photo and see what you think…

aaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My husbands just gone to work. Ive been up all night throwing up with some sort of bug, the same one Luke has and seeing as we’re ill, the same one that Jack will probably get over the next 24 hours… I spent the whole day yesterday saying I couldnt wait for him to get home so I could go to bed.
What happens? He comes in, I end up sorting the kids out and although he went and got takeaway for dinner I still ended up having to get them ready for bed etc. Then When Luke wakes up an hour after he falls asleep, comes dowstairs and throws up everywhere IM the idiot that ends up getting the carpet washer out and cleaning it up so that we get rid of the smell and the bug properly.
Jack wakes up a bit later saying he’s poorly but by this stage Im in bed, he’s not… We both end up sorting him out and then going to bed.

This morning after sleeping through me being up and downstairs all night being sick he goes to work without even offering to find someone to have the kids, or God forbid have a day off so I can try and recover a bit!!!!When he comes home with a migreine, its straight off to bed and I take the kids out somewhere so he can have some quiet and get some sleep.  I appreciate that he has to work, but he’s also got a responsibility here, it makes me feel like shit that very time I get it thrown back in my face that he’s the one working full time and Im not, as If he’s the only one worrying about money!

I just want a day off!

I am officially having the day from hell. I hate mondays at the best of times but todays been one of those “curl up under the duvet” days.

It started off quite promisingly, I woke up to Jack singing a combination of twinkle twinkle and Happy Birthday (The only two songs he knows I think) and Luke shouting through to him to shut up.

Bought them both downstairs even managing to do so without the usual argument with Jack about coming downstairs and not being able to play in his bedroom all day. Ha I thought, a good day thank god!

It all went downhill rpaidly from the moment I mentioned breakfast.

After asking both of them what they wanted for breakfast and finally deciding (After a discussion about how chocolate isnt for breakfast) ww would have jam on toast.

I made it, got them in thier highchairs and then Jack started whining “My not like jam on toast” “My want cereal” Then it was arguments over what we would watch on tele. Im being a bad mother today as I feel like Ive been hit with a truck and stuck the tv on to keep them quiet. The whining was increasin volume at the same speed that My head was getting worse so I just let him get on with it and left him to eat his toast and whinge to himself. He was just in an awkward mood.

Eventually we ate all our breakfast (Jack forgot about whinging and ended up asking for more) and I tidied up a bit, stuck the hoover round and ran a bath so I could de jam them before Jack went to nursery. By this stage I was feeling seriously crap. My head was banging and i have got sod all energy.

I went upstairs to grab towels and the dog tried to run past me, knocked me into the door handle and I now have a huge cut in the middle of my back that hurts every time I lean on it or catch it!

After soaking the bathroom, tantrums about hair washing and scrubbing teeth and paddys becasue we had to let the water out we got dressed and took Jack to nursery.

He didnt go last week as he was ill so I was expeting him to act up a bit as I left, but he screamed, threw himself on the floor and tried to grab at my legs crying. It was awful!!!!! I felt horrble leaving him, but I know that if I went back he’d have done it every week. Last time he went he cried for about ten minutes then settled.

Luckily when we got in Luke was shattered so we sat and watched a bit of button moon on the tv and choilled out having a cuddle.

Went to pick Jack up who had very quickly forgotten I’d left and was quite happily playing with cars and what have you. When we got there of course luke ran round playing with all the toys and I had to drag both of them out the room and round to the car. To top it all off it was chucking it down so Id got to get them in the car as quickly as possible.

Jack ran straight into the car door as I was trying to get Luke in and as a result has a huge lump/bruise in the middle of his forehead. Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!

Eventually got home and Ive just stuck them in bed for a bit. Im waiting ten minutes to see if Jack settles then going up there myself. I’ve already told Karl Im going to bd when he gets in.

I hate being ill. I have to struggle on instead of just giving in for a day or so and feeling better quicker. Karl cant take time off and theres no-one to look after the kids. I’ve spent the whole day letting them pretty much run riot and I’m ashamed to say I’ve been having daydreams about them having naps all day so I can get some sleep!!!!!!!!!

Giving blood….

well this morning I made a complete prat of myself!

Went to give blood and didnt have any problems until afterwards when I sat down for my sugary drink and biscuits…..

All at once I went all wobbly and thought I was going to pass out. I shouted to one of the nurses who jumped up, grabbed a mat for the floor and lay me down, before I’d had chance to breate I was being cooled down by two fantastic nurses and was covered in alchohol wipes (to cool my skin faster) I took about 10 minutes to get back to something like normal and had to sit there for about another 20 minutes.

The room was sweltering though (Thats my excuse) and I’m suffering from a bit of a cold so its my own fault really.

Thats it, next time I’ll be having an early night the night before, drinking plenty beforehand and not going if I feel ill at all!

Wading through Treacle

Today is one of those days where Im constantly wishing the day away. The kids are acting up, Jacks shattered and taking it out on anyone who gets in his way and Lukes going through his hitting stage. No matter what I try to do I cant get anything done properly without having to stop constantly and break up some sort of fight.

Karls rung me to get me to ring our mortgage company about moving and Ive not had chance. Ive rung them three times so far and every time I ring I end up having to put the phone down and stop them hitting or screaming at each other. Its hard work but I keep focussed on the fact that it wont be like this forever. In the next few months we should hopefully have a garden that they can go and play out in and Jack starts nursery in september so I will have more time to focus just on Luke. Its also getting more springlike every day so we should be able to go and feed the ducks, go to the park etc without freezing after five minutes.

We’re off to Mum  and Dads tonight for our usual thursday visit so no doubt I will get lots of “Emma, jack/luke needs his bum changed” Emma they want a drink” ” Emma he’s picked that up and he’s not supposed to”

I know Karls been at work all day, but I sometimes wish that people would realise that Ive not exactly been sat doing nothing all day and that sometimes instead of spending five minutes moaning about the fact that Jacks nappy needs changing again they would just do it for me! Drives me crackers when Im running round sorting juice and food out Im being shouted for to come and do something else while everyones sat watching the kids doing whatever it is that they shouldnt be. Its like Im the only one with a pair of hands! I appreciate they are my kids, but would it really kill to give me a break and a hand with them every so often?????They are iwth me 90% of my waking day.

Anyway, I didnt intend my first post in my new blog to be such a whinge, Im off to make the most of the half an hour or so break that I will have today. I think coffee and a slice of toast is in order!