A Time of Magic

If I were to pick a tool that appeared to fall into the category of “less useful” I’d have said that it was pressure washers.

However, that’s because in my mind they were basically just for the car. That being the case, why would you buy one as it was sure to be cheaper to just use the one at the garage?

What’s changed though is that I realised that you can use them for a whole lot more thanks to some neighbours. Not only is their car sparkling much more often than mine but their brickwork looks like new in comparison to my grotty looking bricks and there’s loads more around their property that has benefited from the treatment too.

So, seemingly “less useful” but in reality rather useful indeed.

Although more and more of our lives is spent online few people bother to backup any of it and thus, sooner or later, something is sure to go wrong and you’ll end up losing all kinds of stuff that you didn’t realise that you needed.

One of the ways to avoid the hassle element of backup is to do it online. That’s only recently become a truly practical activity with the increase in line speeds just about everywhere and when you add to that the rapidly decreasing cost of storage there are even free online backup services these days so there’s no excuse.

Obviously you’ll get less storage space and facilities on the free services but that “less” might well be enough for the essential files that you have.

Since we’ve laid off the diet programme whilst in our place in France we’ve been putting on weight here and there but now that our departure is coming up, it’s time to think about restarting our exercise and diet programme in a month or so.

In that we’ve gathered up a whole bunch more fat thanks to our relatively sedentary life style of recent weeks we were thinking that a fat burner is probably going to be our first port of call. However, as before we’ll be combing that with a proper diet and exercise programme so, in principle, we should be back in a sensible shape fairly quickly.

“In principle”, perhaps not in reality I suspect