After your sight test, you may have been told that you are short sighted (or myopic in optician speak) – this basically means that you have difficulty seeing things far away but can usually see close up quite well.…
If the lens inside your eye becomes cloudy, it is known as a cataract. Cataracts usually occur over the age of sixty but can occur at any age. It is even possible to be born with cataracts (congenital cataracts)…
If you have astigmatism, you will have blurry vision at all distances as a result of the cornea (the front surface of the eye) or the lens inside the eye being ‘irregularly’ shaped. This is nothing to worry about…
Last year (and in our
Although we both have young families, Clare and I both dreamed of starting a small, independent practice and working for ourselves for a long while. At times, it has been a juggling act but we have worked very hard on…
Happy New Year! It’s been a lovely 12 days off for me but I am looking forward to getting to the practice, seeing everyone and getting back into routine. It’s 7.45am and I am currently eating my cornflakes, after…
We are closing for Christmas today at 2.00pm so we are taking this opportunity to send out this Merry Christmas message to all our patients, customers, friends and neighbours – past and present. We are taking a nice, long…
So we have just put up our Christmas tree. We hope you like our spec-orations that glasses obsessed Francesca made last year.. we love them!
…to put up the Christmas tree and Christmas decorations at the practice! We love Christmas at Pearce and Bowler Opticians and we’ve decided that we will put up our decorations on Tuesday, December 2nd. We can’t wait to start…
This month has seen quite a few younger patients coming with Mum and/or Dad for the first time to choose spectacles after visiting the hospital for their prescription. For young children, and especially babies, fitting of spectacles can be difficult and often parents become frustrated with poorly fitting frames and endless trips to the optician to repair or replace broken frames.