A Time of Magic

It used to be that shopping for spare car parts involved trailing round lots of scrap yards in search of that elusive part for your car or alternatively of paying an absolute fortune for it from the dealer.

These days though the likes of Mopar performance parts offer a massive range of surprisingly affordable parts for lots of cars. The scrap yard option is, of course, still there but realistically I suspect that most people just find it a depressing waste of time these days.

In days of old it used to be simple to equip an office. Just buy a nice desk, chair and filing cabinets and you were all set.

These days, of course, office furniture is much more varied and generally needs to be updated too which is a nuisance. Not so long ago everyone ran with desktops so “computer desks” needed somewhere to put that tower not to mention a monster of a monitor. These days many people stick to laptops even in the office but even for those that don’t the towers are a whole lot smaller and that monster monitor is now an even larger flat screen.

There’s not even so much need for those filing cabinets these days as more and more documents move online. So, for example, the human biology course that I’m currently doing comes with course books on paper but also downloadable copies of them (how long will such dual production continue, I wonder?).

You still need that nice chair though. Probably a heavier duty one as we’ve all become a whole lot heavier over the years!

Unsurprisingly, that’s my standard summer attire when we’re in our place in France.

What’s maybe a little more surprising is the sheer number of sandles, shorts and sunglasses that you get through over here. The snag is, of course, that these things aren’t usually designed for long term wear so you end up having to look towards more sturdy items such as Dansko sandals rather than the usual cheapo makes that everyone buys.

A bit of a nuisance in some ways but a nice indication of the weather that we usually get over here