Come on Team GB!!!....

Hello Judges',
Well what a miserable week last week this is turning out to be, with all the rain, grey clouds and bloody cold weather ! Here at the opticians I have been busy of late and had a few surprise pairs of sunglasses come in late so that has meant our excellent photographer having to click even more shots off. I am currently sat here with the heating on and looking out of my office window over a struggling sunny sky dotted with even more grey clouds. The weathermen are predicting a rainy May... I don’t want to get out my umbrella anymore or my raincoat. I and no doubt you do not want to be wearing our winter wardrobe when only weeks ago we wearing our summer outfits.
So the other week saw the announcement of 100 day countdown to the Olympics which provoked a conversation in the Opticians with a couple of my staff and customers that did set us about laughing. First the opening ceremony will be presented by Chas and Dave or Ant and Dec…. The more controversial option maybe Simon Cowell and Danni Minogue ( for the mixed relay we won’t ask how they will pass the baton without dropping it)
Then next came to the actual games that would be played, egg and spoon race, sack race which quickly became the grab a handbag and peg it over 400m away, the hopscotch marathon, the bitch slap for a kebab , shooting would be done after 20 shots of vodka and on a high street at midnight (probably in my home town of Nottingham!) Sailing would be pedalo’s on Skegness. Weight lifting would become the keg roll. In all we went through rather a lot of stupid ideas for what the world thinks of us British.
The Olympics are going to be a real chance for us to shatter these rather 'off 'preconceptions and show that team GB means business and bring home the gold. Going off track from the fun the Olympics are a chance for us to prove how great a sport nation we are with some of the best sport personalities competing on our turf. Particularly I am looking forward to seeing Stella McCartney’s creations in motion and see them on the podiums. I wonder if they will be wearing the Stella McCartney sunglasses ?
Oakley and Tag heur have been busy of late with being sported by the extremes and tag being sported by none other than our own Jenson Button. Look at our site for all oakley sunglasses and tag heuer sunglasses .
This is a winning year for us all and we will continue to strive for gold for you at Sendoptics
Keep smiling Judges', and let’s will the sun to shine on us again.
Remember that www.sendoptics.com is the home of discounted designer sunglasses.
Keep 'em peeled,
The Judge

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Aussie cull on colour deficient lenses

Crazy as it sounds, last week it was reported by the Canberra Times that shades with brown, yellow or reddish tinted lenses will be unacceptable for driving in.

Those with rose-tinted rage were told that traffic-lights use a green-blue hue to help colour deficient road users (about 8% of men) detect green traffic signals, whilst sunglasses with a brown lense designed to block the glare from blue skies actually end up blocking out the blue light emitted from traffic-lights.

Professor Stephen Dain of the University of New South Wales, Australia and former head of the School of Optometry and Vision Science discovered that in a study of "49 colour-deficient males and 20 with normal vision were given various tinted sunglasses and asked to identify colours of simulated traffic lights.

"About 20 per cent of colour-deficient subjects wearing tinted glasses could not correctly identify the lights. His report notes that "response times for colour-deficient people were slower than colour normals for red and yellow" lights."

The interesting news for those style, rather than, science conscious wearers of sunglasses is that according to Professor Dain, European countries are trying to avoid imposing legislation on sunglasses manufacturers in an effort not to hamper sales.

If you fancy being particularly responsible, have a look at some high standard lenses to protect your peepers...
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