Arto's Specstacular Bat Specs

Arto recently found these ace Bat Specs and kindly sent me a pic.

I so remember them as a kid. Hard plastic with an actual bat's face on top!

So cool! I wonder if they came with a costume?

Did you have Bat Specs?

Do you wear normal specs like me? I have since age 11! 

SOMETHING YELLOW - Contemporary Glass Society

When I saw this I thought it was the kind of cute plastic toy I collect.

It's made of glass!

Check out the Contemporary Glass Society.

https://cgs.org.uk/onlineexhibition/something-yellow/

Do you like glass?

A Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble New Year; Its 2024!

 

Happy New Year Readers! Thanks for all your continued support! Tune in to MoonBase Central throughout 2024 if you can!

Woodsy

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and on a complete whim I got this glass the other day for a New Year sherry. Going for a song, a rock song, I couldn't resist it's link to one of my favourite heavy bands in the 1970's, the mighty Uriah Heep.

Yes, those ever so 'eavy rockers took there name from Charles Dickens's famous scribblings no less.

It'll come in handy for my New Year tipple today!

Still in the Seventies I missed out on an old Dutch bone china tea cup , which had the word Vader printed on the side in beautiful script. No idea why I didn't swoop.

I can't find an exact picture of it but here's a similar cup with Vader on the side, along with Moeder, Dutch for Father and Mother.

Have you an interesting New Year glass, vessel, cup or favourite tipple?

HOLY SPECTACLES!

 I saw this recently on auction and I thought, Yes!

The memories of wearing some of these came bouncing back, such a classic design.

I wonder if these were licensed?

Did you have a bat mask?

THE EYES HAVE IT

Forgive another one of my post-lockdown rambles but its odd. I've worn glasses since I was 12 so sometimes I forget I've actually got eyeballs.

Yet occasionally they do strange things that remind me I do have eyes.

First off, they itch. Its not just a straightforward itch but a deep itch tucked right in the corner past the tear duct! Its a tough job getting in there with a finger but it has to be done as that eye itch stops everything in its tracks. Not sure what causes it in the first place though.

Could be sleep. Not the comatose nightly state but rather the gritty stuff we get in our eyes after it. What my European Missus calls sand as the sandman sends her off. Sleep .. or sand .. is irksome stuff and requires immediate attention too once it starts grating on the iris. Rubbing can cause even more grating and before you know it you're crying huge tears with all that erosion!

Face rubbing brings on another reaction too. It does on me anyway. I assume it started as a kid but when I rub my face, especially with a towel after a shower, I moan and groan as I'm doing it particularly when I rub my eyes! Strange. Eye groaning!

Another peculiarity are the worms. I say worms as I don't know what to call them but they do look like small worms. I'm rambling about those short curly strings of light that flit around in front of you when you go cross-eyed in sunlight. When you stare into your own iris. I've never known what this eye fauna is. I assume its light rather than life.

School friends used to play tricks with their eyes. Some could pull the upper eye lid down so it looked like an alien and some could roll their eyes so far back that they were white like a shark's death stare! Tricks like these were usually followed by inhuman finger stretching and tongue curling. I watched them all as I couldn't do anything except groan when I rubbed my face with a towel!

Nowadays the only notable thing about my vision is the lack of it and its stablemate, hearing, is hanging up its boots slowly too, much to the annoyance of my Missus, who has to repeat things twice!

Being a glasses wearer since the Seventies, I've seen my whole teenage and adult life through shaped plastic and often wonder it what I saw was what everyone saw! Glasses could be part of a conspiracy to undermine parts of society!

The thought of contact lenses wandering off up inside my cranium put me off them years ago and similarly a laser technician with a twitchy hand dissuaded me from pupil shaving too.

Nope. I'll stick with glasses and attend to the various itches, worms and groans my eyes require just as they are.

Have you any eyeball quirks?

BRAINS' BLUE GLASSES

Being a specs wearer since the age of 12 I've always admired Brains' blue gigs.

They always reminded me of the prescription glasses I wore from the off. Mine were black though. I doubt if blue was an option in 1972.

I did see a female news presenter with a pair of thick pale blues specs on the TV the other day and I immediately thought of Brains or in her case Mrs. Brains.

I can't find any just like Brains online but here's something along those lines.

Have you got Brains' blue specs on?