Whist

 I had a 'bright' idea a while ago to organise a whist drive mainly to ee if I could see the cards better with these 'new' glasses I was given a few months ago.  These glasses are causing me some grief, my eyes are sore in the morning and sometimes they make focusing difficult. I don't understand why an optician would give out the wrong spccs after all they are suppose to have tested me for the right lenses'

These glasses do change my vision in certain ways though, I seem to see things further away, and that is why I thought I would organise a whist drive. I also thought it would help with getting people to socialise again after the dreadful two years people have had of not being able to socialise.

I asked a friend to help me with the whist night she said she would bring the cards and a raffle prize. I put poster up in the book shop in the next town and put it on twitter and just went around asking people if they wanted to get involved. I also booked the room and some tea. I had no idea how many would come if anyone would really and that I might have to cancel it in the end.

So the whist night arrived last Friday I went early to organise the room and to 'greet' the people as they came if they were going to come. I had heard during the day that some were coming which was good. I thought they might arrive early but as time went by I thought there was going to be no one coming one said he would be there early but wasn't.  

Eventually people did turn up and then there was the awkward bit of collecting money. I did get all of it in the end with a friend's help. the evening went ok really and everyone got their prizes including me.

In relation to the glasses, they seem to help a bit I think, the old glasses meant I was struggling to see the cards and therefore could not work out in my head manyk tactics that I could employ in the game.  Maybe I take all too seriously and its just a night out really a night where is you don't want to you don't have to chat, you don't have to drink you can use your brain to try to remember the cards that have gone.

Anyway I have been asked to do another one therefore I will need another poster to order the tea and to try to recruite others to come along the more the merrier I guess. I might have to get some biscuits too I don't really want to be out of pocket but I am not so far I am 80p up. 

By the sound of the motorbikes outside, it seems things are getting back to the way they use to be, load of born again motorcyclists coming down this road


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