However, one of the more manageable aspects of being this age is that even if you started life with excellent vision, by now almost everyone has started to see the world less clearly. This, of course, has its up side. There are many things you're glad you can't see properly.
But I wear my driving glasses diligently, so I did get rather a shock today when, chugging slowly out along Port Road in the early afternoon and idly watching the footy traffic inching along in the left-hand lane as they all prepared to turn off onto the road that would take them to the stadium, I saw out of the corner of my fifty-something eye a blinking traffic sign that said
TURN LEFT
WITH CAKE
