Another fairly relaxed day. I went out to get my hair cut, and I’m amazed my new hair still looks okay after coming back through the gale force winds that were blowing this afternoon. You can’t beat that magical salon hairspray.
I also took a detour to the hospital to pick up some hearing aid batteries. I’ve worn hearing aids since 2002 but only got digital ones in 2016 (it was a huge, huge saga, mainly due to the fact that NHS Scotland and NHS England will not communicate with each other, so I basically had to go through over a year of tests before I could have new ones after my old analogue one broke. It was a very deaf time). The digital ones are great, but they eat a lot of batteries – and when the battery is getting low it makes a horrible doom-laden clanging sound (this usually happens when I am not in a position to be able to change the battery, like when I’m in a music venue watching a band, or in the middle of a 10K race), so you can’t really eke them out right to the end of their lives.
I also find it funny when I think about my hearing aids compared to my glasses – if you think about it, they perform the same function (sensory aids), but I don’t know anyone these days who goes through the NHS for glasses (I presume NHS glasses must still be available? I wonder if they’re still the uniform thick-framed things that people associate with the term ‘NHS glasses’?), yet it’s still standard for hearing aids, and so the latter feel so much more medicalised. I can’t ever imagine high-end designer labels doing lines of hearing aids either, or listing them as an accessory when I do my OOTD photos! Glasses are considered fashion, whereas hearing aids are seen as technology, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
Still, I will never take hearing aid technology for granted – I really appreciate it on haircut days, because I need to take my aids out (and my glasses off if I’ve not been organised enough to wear contacts, which is usually the case), and trying to hear what the hairdressers are saying is tough, even if I’ve asked them to speak up.

Hearing aids thoroughly back in place, I’m spending another evening watching Geth playing Final Fantasy IX. Great story so far!


In other news, I’m getting thoroughly sick of my blurry phone camera now and I think I’m going to invest in a better one.
Today’s earworm playlist:
The Housemartins – Build
Heaven 17 – Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
Duran Duran – Rio
Rag ‘N’ Bone Man – Human
Kiesza – Hideaway
Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting
Queen – I Want It All
Nicole Scherzinger – Don’t Hold Your Breath
M People – Movin’ On Up
The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?
will.i.am, Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger – THE (The Hardest Ever)
And a bonus track that Geth was humming earlier:
Madonna – Like A Virgin