You got off lightly me old son. I had 14 polyps removed!

@Trainfish , glad all went well, I remember my brother telling me he was only on la-la gas, which I must admit I am glad over here you get the full monty anesthetic, I didn't remember a thing. 

Just had a wander through the shopping centre on the way to the meat raffle at the bowlo (yes, from the bus stop). Called in at the newsagents, and I guess I'm lucky in that they always have an excellent selection of both model railway and railway mags.

There was a great range today, and a lot of N gauge stuff. Indeed, the American Model Railroader was devoted to N this month.

However, the average price of these things now being around the A$20 mark or higher, means no. I am simply not prepared to fork out that for a magazine. I've even stopped getting the Aussie Silicon Chip magazine on a monthly basis, and it's only 11 bucks!

agree, I only get Model Rail now, and that is digital.
Our local probus club gets given the out of date magazines from a local newsagent. Funnily enough anything rail related ends up in my hands, and then gets deposited at the club. May be out of date for news but the articles are what we (used to) buy them for anyway.

Good one. I occasionally get the odd handout from another newsagent nearby, but not often.

As you say, most of the mag is advertising anyway.

Railway Modeller has hit £5.95 per issue now. I do buy it even though sometimes there's naff all N gauge in it, but I then pass it onto mate Rob and he passes it on from there.
I certainly don't buy it for the modelling news as they're obviously behind the curve with that

I'm not sure about that, but I've been a monthly stalwart of both RM and SC over the years. I'm just not prepared to pay that price anymore.

I suspect we're seeing the print magazine world circling the proverbial drain.

Prices are increasing to the point where the perceived value is no longer there. One of the reactions is to reduce the number of issues per year, the other is just go digital-only.  And of course the price does not go down.

In the last couple of years, I've had two magazine subscriptions changed unilaterally to digital-only (where's my refund?), and seen two well established magazines changed from monthly to bimonthly in one case, and quarterly in the other.

If my remaining monthly subscription goes digital or less than monthly, I'm going to be seriously lacking in throne-reading  !

hi  all

  i  subscribe  to  " readly  mags "     has  thousands  of  mags   ok   all  online  but  at  least  10 to  15    rail and  model  rail  mags      £14.99   monthley   

  paul

Mrs Papyrus came home on Friday after a week away at music summer school. (No, that's not the unhappy bit...) She had a great time as always but yesterday afternoon she started to feel unwell. This morning she woke up with what she thought was a streaming cold - turns out she's not the only one. There was an alert on the group's Faceache page this morning. Covid! Oh great. At least 8 confirmed cases so far. I expect it was one of the accordion players, they are usually the source of any trouble... Fortunately, we've already had it once, we are well jabbed up and it's not as severe as it used to be, but it's still out there, folks.

Cheers,

Chris

Having had my cataracts removed last year, I've been finding, lately, that I'm not seeing as well as I was. The sharpness from the replacement lenses seems to be as good as it was but the contrast of what I'm looking at seems to have decreased - black text on white seems to be more grey on white, which makes reading more difficult. There seems to be a similar contrast change on bright days and I'm definitely seeing some glare/ghosting from cars' bright LED daylight running lights.
So I suspect that I've got posterior capsule opacification (AKA secondary cataracts) developing, where the back of the capsule that holds the lens in place is clouding over, in which case I'll need laser treatment to burn holes through the capsules. Hopefully that's all it is.

I have an appointment booked for the optometrist to have a look on Tuesday.

That's a concern as my friend Rob had one eye done 2 weeks ago and the other one is booked to be done in 3 weeks time. One year seems a short 'cure'

Yes, that is a bit of a worry. I've been recommended to have mine done, and I've generally heard good reports of the procedure, so it sounds like you have been unlucky. My sympathies.

Chris

Quote from: Newportnobby on August 03, 2025, 11:18:10 AMThat's a concern as my friend Rob had one eye done 2 weeks ago and the other one is booked to be done in 3 weeks time. One year seems a short 'cure'

They warned me that it could happen, and that if it does could any time within weeks, months or years of the original lens replacement op. Frequencies quoted online vary between 5% and 20% of people/eyes, and one clinic (in New York though) states on their website that because they find it so common they do the laser work at the same time as the lens replacements.

It's apparently caused by cells left behind from the old lens (it's understandable that they can't flush them all out) growing on the back of the new lens and on the membrane that holds it in place.

The laser treatment, if that's what I need, burns a small hole through the membrane to clear the optical pathway.

Apparently, it only takes a few minutes to do - but. looking at the website for the clinic that did the cataracts, it could involve several visits. Unless they've copied/pasted some of the text from the cataracts op page, they seem to only do one eye at a time so it might be as many as five blasted trips - again.

I have just been recommended to have this by the eye specialist my optician sent me to. I have an appointment early Sept. to discuss what type of lens etc and to confirm the ops in Oct and Nov.
Will ask about this now.
cheers
Graham