Cheap glasses? (and update)

[juliet]

There is a slowly-growing crack in one of the lenses in my glasses. Can anyone recommend a cheap place that I can go to in-person for an eye test (haven't had one for a couple of years) and to get the lenses replaced? (have no particular desire for new frames; certainly not enough so to *pay* for the hideous experience of choosing the damn things).

ION: I have spent the last couple of weeks helping angelmine and my brand new oddson Luca :) He is very lovely, and it's been a great, if intense, experience. (I miss both of them now I'm back in London!) I have been singing to him, viz: Leonard Cohen (Hallejulah has 7 readily-available verses, which makes it excellent for singing babies to sleep), the Magnetic Fields (Papa Was A Rodeo being one of the few songs I already knew all the words to even when massively sleep-deprived the day after Luca was born), and Billy Bragg (The World Turned Upside-Down; indoctrinate 'em while they're young!). I feel I am fulfilling my oddparently duties well.

Have also been to Belfast for a funeral, which was and still is a sad thing.

Now I mostly want to sleep for a while.

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[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I used to get paid-by-work eye tests at Specsavers, and they were fine. Now work have switched the contract to Tesco, who are also fine (and markedly cheaper if you're paying yourself).

For glasses, I've no experience of getting lenses replaced, I'm afraid.

My strategy is to buy very, very cheap glasses online. This enables me to be entirely relaxed about choosing them. I just buy the cheapest I can find that look remotely suitable. If they don't suit/fit me, I just buy another pair. Not that I've had to do that anything like as often as I expected. (Once in about six years, I think.) I used to to use GlassesDirect.co.uk (I think they were among the first, if not the first), and had no trouble. But they're not nearly as cheap as they used to be. These days I use Tesco, and paid something like a tenner for the pair I'm wearing at the moment.

Hooray for Luca! And hooray for helping out. Go you!