A Time of Magic

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Not so long ago the gifts that we could choose from were those stocked in the local shops and if you were anywhere at all remote or even in a small town that was very limited.

Nowadays it’s all changed of course. Not only is the largest bookshop in the world available to all of us but we can choose gift baskets which would put to shame any that were available even just ten years ago and would have truly amazed our grandparents both in terms of the range that you can choose from and the price which, despite years of inflation, has barely shifted the price of a wide range of products available online.

Of course, it’s that much greater market that is both increasing our choice and driving down the prices. Who’d have thought 20 years back that to buy a CD you’d use a shop that was based over 1000 miles away from you?

It has to be Florida, doesn’t it?

At just everywhere else in the world you can expect theme parks to add another attraction or two each year, in Florida they seem to add another theme park. Paradoxically, that makes Orlando vacations more difficult to plan in that there’s just too much to interest everyone. It’s somewhere that you need to cut down the number of places you intend going to rather than scabbling around to find somewhere of interest that can happen in many other vacation destinations.

Still, ’tis nice to have way too much to see than not enough, isn’t it?

Let’s face it, we’re all getting older but none of us really want it to show, do we?

That’s led to a massive industry that covers everything from fitness clubs to reduce those sagging bit to lotions & potions to do something about the sagging bits on our faces. Whilst many of us are either too busy or, frankly, too lazy to do much on the exercise front at least we can do something easily enough on the wrinkle from with top wrinkle creams that’ll cover up all those cracks and even some that have been shown to do something or other somewhat deeper to actually slow down the arrival of the wrinkles in the first place.

Now, “all” you need to do is get that credit card out…