we have half an hour and then an hour. 0h. ok, come and have a seat here for me, monty. eight—year—old monty is having his eyes tested for the first time in two years. we're going to do a little check for you today. last time we saw you was september 2019, so it has been a little while. during lockdown, opticians did stay open but, according to the college of optometrists, around 6 million appointments were postponed. i think i was concerned because we had not been to the optician's for a long time. and also, certainly, monty hasjust come out of isolation, so he has spent quite a lot of time playing minecraft with his friends as the only way of sort of chatting to them. and he's been getting closer and closer to the screen as he's been playing. so itjust seemed a bit, for boy whose onlyjust eight, being really close to the screen, seemed a bit odd. oh, so you are a little bit short—sighted. we've got —1.25 on the right and a —1 on the left.