On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:28:08 +0100, geoff wrote:

In message , geoff
writes
In message , Nick Leverton
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SWMBO's reading specs have broken, the frame adjacent to the bridge has
fractured. Even in the event she gets round to ordering them this
week,
it'll take at least a fortnight for new ones to arrive from the Far
East
via an online optician (for strong prescriptions it's hundreds cheaper
than the local bricks-and-mortar optician charges and a far better
range).



I've never found anything that actually works

How far are you from Watford

I presume that they are simple prescription reading glasses

The last pair of glasses I got for the wife took half an hour and I
paid £20 for them, they had the lenses in stock, You might not get
quite that service, but ...

cheap and quick

http://www.glassesonspec.co.uk/

Or type "fairplay optical watford" into google



Or http://onestopglasses.co.uk/ who have been very good on several orders.

Rod