Shhh! She's sleeping.
When I was in primary four at Knowepark Primary School in Selkirk I kept getting moved desks by the teacher, Miss Dickson.
“Stop talking!” she would implore me.
But I kept on chatting to the people to my left and right. And so I kept getting moved, slowly towards the back of the classroom as a punishment.
And the further back I was moved the more I’d talk. Until she finally twigged, “Can you see the blackboard?” I was asked.
“No,” I replied.
“What does it say on the board?” was what I was asking my neighbours.
I got my first pair of spectacles 31 years ago and my eyesight has got slowly worse ever since.
So when I see out-of-focus photos like the one above I don’t think of them so much as rubbish photos so much as a close representation of what I actually see without my glasses on.
