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Simpsonesque with a touch of Ice Cold in Alex out there at the moment
Our promised thunderstorms have been cancelled again, and 30°C is forecast; it's supposedly 22°C outside at the moment, and already 29°C in the living room
Hearing test Mk. II done, and shopping accomplished
The test was basically a replay of yesterday, except that at the end I was shown a bunch of types of hearing aid and given a price list, rather than shown one type and told that's what I'd be getting. I now have an appointment with their audiologist on Tuesday morning, who'll advise me on which type would be best for me and whether or not I need to spend extra for the really good ones, or can get away with the cheaper versions.
All seems to be a bit long-winded; you would have thought they'd have some facility whereby I could walk in, say I want to give them a couple of grand, and walk out all done and dusted. But apparently not
She did say that I should also get the NHS ones when they get around to giving me them, as it's useful to have them as backup in case of problems with the private ones
And after that to Sainsbury's, where the sun seems to have brought the peasantry out of their hovels in some force
And with all that done, I can now have lunch: a couple of bits of chicken from the hot food counter
At Specsavers for my hearing test, rather early as the traffic was light
One amusing thing was that their lawyers have clearly decided to go heavy on GDPR, so she recited the equivalent of an entire opt-in screen at me before ticking various boxes on the computer so she could record my test results
She had it off by heart too, which was quite impressive in its way
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