When you have vision that isn’t quite as good as you would like it to be, you don’t always know what you’re missing. But when I got contact lenses for the first time, I couldn’t believe the detail that was laid out before my very eyes.

It took me a good hour to learn how to put them in. The Optician who oversaw my contact lens training was patient with me at first, but after an hour he was clearly exasperated with my lack of progress. Eventually though, I got them in – and a whole new world of minute detail was before me.

I got them just before a long trip to South East Asia, and I was pretty glad I got them as well as a pair of glasses. The glasses were stolen by a nice young lady in Kao San Road, so I needed those lovely disposable contact lenses.

I did run out at one stage in my trip, but I was in Kuala Lumpur, where you don’t even need a prescription to get contact lenses; so I got loads and saw everything with perfect clarity, all around the globe.