A Time of Magic

We’ve all three makes in our household and you’d think that it would be easy enough to switch between them, at least at the level of a compact camera but it isn’t.

Whilst I don’t have any problems changing between the Canon camera and the Nikons, when I try to take a photo on the Fujis it just never seems to turn out quite as I was expecting it to. Oh, the menus are different for sure but the cameras are basically set up for point and shoot so you’d think that would work quite well. Still, at least it makes Wendy’s camera hers and mine, mine

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!