7 Annoying Problems When Wearing Glasses

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I felt like writing a different type of post today as the other day I realised weve hit that point of the year where its cold outside and whenever you walk indoors the warmth engulfs you. Any fellow glasses wearers out there will understand the annoyance of this.

I have had glasses since the age of 6/7 and started wearing them full time when I was around 12. Over the years I have created a small list of things that dont exactly frustrate or anger me, they are just those little niggles that make you complain sometimes. So I thought Id share 7 of those with you and hopefully, if you where glasses too, you can relate to them.

1. Steaming Up

Like I mentioned above, walking into a warm building when its cold outside and steaming up causing you to become lose vision temporarily. There are also other occasions when this happens such as drinking hot drinks or opening the oven door and not being able to see your food is cooked with the addition of being in the dangerous situation of being briefly unable to see whilst around hot objects. 

2. Rain. 

Seriously, when people say there should be window wipers for glasses, there really should be. I just love, once again, not being able to see clearly through the things that are there to improve my vision.

3. Smudges. 

This one does apply to the ones above as well. I just find that the majority of the time when I go to clean me glasses, I only make it worse. Try and wipe away the steam - it turns to water. Try and wipe away rain - it just combines all the raindrops into one big one. Leave the rain drops and they leave water marks and smudges. Try and wipe away smudges using glasses wipes - success! Only to find that moments later another mark has appeared.

4. 3D glasses. 

I rarely go and watch 3D films because it is just really uncomfortable balancing 2 pairs of glasses on your face. The 3D glasses are usually really close to the tip of your nose and because they dont sit nicely behind your ears, as your normal glasses fill that space, you make a move and of your face they come.

5. Face masks. 

I like wearing face masks every now and then. But I have to time it so that I know I wont be doing anything for 10 - 30 minutes  (depending on the mask). Why? Because I cant wear my glasses throughout that time as it gets all over my frames. Trying to get honey out of the hinges is a difficult job. I wouldnt mind it if I could do things without my glasses on but I end up straining my eyes as I am very short sighted.

6. Lying on your side. 

I used to love lying on my side while watching a film, reading a book, being on my laptop. But its just uncomfortable to do whilst wearing glasses. Not only do you get the frame digging into your nose and behind your ear, I am scared of breaking them. And like I said in the previous one its not like I could just take my glasses off. 

7. Questions and remarks.

Last but not least, the constant questions and remarks. I dont know what the fascination is with glasses to those who dont wear them, but continual questions like can I try your glasses on? or how many fingers am I holding up? do get tedious. Even if Ive known the person for a few years they still pop out the questions. In addition to this, if we do let you try our glasses on, you dont need to make the remark on my sight, saying wow you are blind wont surprise me - I already know this and that is why I am wearing the glasses. 

I hoped you liked this different style, and I may do more in the future. Can any of you relate to these? Or do you have niggles of your own - Id love to hear them! 

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Healthy Banana Bread Oil Free

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I love banana bread. And banana cookies. And banana pancakes. Well I just love bananas in general, I usually have at least one a day without fail. But that becomes a bit of a problem, as I never give them chance to become over ripe, meaning I rarely get the chance to bake with them. Luckily, my mum accidentally ordered too many bananas and we had a few that got to the over ripe stage - it was a joyful moment.

Many of the recipes I have come across call for oil, and personally I dont like baking with it, so I used apple sauce in place. Also because the bananas where already very sweet from being ripe, I didnt want to add in loads of additional sugar, and this created a really natural taste to the bread and wasnt sickly sweet - which I have found other recipes to be. 

It is lightly spiced, perfect for the season. And the smell! Mmmmm. When it was baking away the whole house smelt delicious. The sweet smell of banana makes your stomach rumble. The hint of cinnamon and nutmeg gives the house that warm and inviting feeling when its all cold outside. My mum actually came in from work and asked for a slice straight away, but it was still in the oven.     

I decided to only make a small loaf as I guessed it would only be me and my mum eating it, and as it is better the fresher it is, didnt want to be left with a large amount. Personally, I love banana bread when it is slightly chewy on the outer crust, but moist and gooey on the inside. So I made the mixture a little wetter and baked it on a lower heat for 1 hour.

As you can see I left a few chunks of banana, which I really like along with the chunks of walnuts and dates.

I prefer it when it has cooled down with a nice amount of peanut butter spread across (my stomach is rumbling, I think I may have to go an get myself a slice). If youre more of the eat warm kind of person, a dollop of ice cream would go perfectly. Or equally as good, and more seasonally appropriate - custard.

Ingredients
Yields 1 small loaf

• 1 1/2 ripe medium bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup wholemeal flour
• 1/2 cup oat flour
• 1/3 cup apple sauce
• 2 tbsp light muscovado sugar
• 1/3 cup full fat Greek yoghurt
• 1 egg
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup pitted dates, chopped
• 1/4 cup walnuts, crushed

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 160°c and line a loaf tin with greaseproof paper.
2. In a bowl combine your mashed banana, apple sauce, egg and sugar and mix well until the sugar has dissolve.
3. To the mixture, add in your vanilla extract and Greek yoghurt.
4. In a separate bowl, combine your wholemeal flour, oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.
5. Next, fold your dry ingredients into the wet mixture and mix well.
6. Fold in your dates and walnuts.
7. Pour your mixture into the prepared tin and place in the oven for an hour. However, check on the loaf after 30-40 minutes and if the top is browned, cover with foil and return to the oven. After an hour check the bread with a skewer. For a gooey bread it should be mostly clean but still have some mixture on. If it still feels too unbaked return the oven, however please remember that it is a moist recipe.
8. Once it has been removed from the oven, allow to cool for around 5 minutes before removing from the tin.

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