Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch

Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch – that is what my partner used to say when we were going out for the evening, checking he had all four!  Well I have the latter two, I don’t need the second, but where had I put my reading spectacles?

 

I searched all the places I thought I could have left them, the table where I keep the books I am currently reading – no.  The kitchen table where I had been reading about rearing queen honey bees, my book shelves of cookery and gardening books, my computer table, again no sign of them. 

I looked on the seat where I had sat in the garden sunning myself, the greenhouse amongst the runner beans, sweet corn, broad beans, peas and the other vegetables I am raising.  Nothing.

I gave up and went about Monday morning’s recovering from the weekend cleaning  when suddenly I had a light bulb moment; I had sat on the wall yesterday watching my honey bees going in and out of the hives in the sunshine through a pair of binoculars and yes, that was where I had left my spectacles. 

I don’t think the fox or badger had tried them on and they were a bit too small for the deer I saw near the house last week.

I am lost without my reading spectacles although I do keep two pairs, this dates from when I was working, one pair in my handbag and the other pair in the house.