I feel like I've mainly been tying up loose ends this week and I'm not sure whether that's good or bad.

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I went back to the opticians with my trial contacts and they agreed there is a problem, so they are going to order in another pair for me by a different manufacturer. (I could see pretty well with the right eye but the left eye wouldn't stay focused. I assume because the lens kept moving.) I'm trying not to get too optimistic about the new ones though.

More positively, I have managed to turn my husband's summer ball, well part of the preparations, into a poem. I have also just finished reading The Butcher's Hands by poet Catherine Smith and it did live up to my expectations. The collection covers a fairly wide range of subject matter from a wide range of viewpoints, from the 'Bad Fairy' and executioner ('Calculation') to a Postulant. Amongst other strengths, they also contain some fantastic imagery. Delicious!

Meanwhile, I've also been struck by two sonnenizio (a sonnet which takes one line from another poet's work, then repeats a word from it in each of the other 13 lines and ends with a rhyming couplet) by Arlene Ang in the latest Orbis. So I'm off to investigate more now and maybe give one a try myself...