Spectacular!

For my birthday this year, CBC's old housemate and our good friend gave me a really considerate and well-thought out present. He bought me a pair of wooden-framed sunglasses because he knew I was trying to avoid plastic. CBC and I were both really touched at this thought and they were really beautifully, stylish, well-made sunglasses. You can see me wearing them here last week. Sunglasses are one of those things that get easily-broken, lost, ditched and then replaced. And they are generally made out of plastic so they can contribute to plastic pollution. They are quite hard to mend once broken as they are quite brittle and fragile. Thus, last week at our...