A Time of Magic

In times gone by you’d be thrown into the world of commercial printers offices and all kinds of complicated choices as to how to print your stuff.

These days, it’s a lot simpler and there are lots of online printers who’ll handle things like postcard printing for you. Generally speaking it is things like postcards that stymie home printers as they just can’t handle card thick enough for postcards. Photos are generally fine these days (though expensive on home printers) but if you’d like a really large enlargement or something on canvas then you’ll generally need to do this via an online outfit as few home printers can handle odd papers or really large ones.

And none of this is anything like as expensive as it used to be. A high quality poster sized print is under £20 these days.

When you’ve been in a house for a while, you accumulate things.

Whilst it’s not so bad for household items, when you start trying to collect things together in the garage you really need to start considering things like stainless steel drums to avoid all the problems that chemicals can cause very easily.

Of course, once you’ve everything in those drums you may well have the problem that you’ve nowhere left to park the car…

I can understand the need for vitamin supplements in the war years and indeed in the post war years of austerity when diets weren’t quite what they should be. However, these days it seems something of a puzzle given the wide range of foods commonly available and the overall improvements in our diets over the years.

Yet, still there are significant numbers of vitamin supplements on the supermarket shelves.

To be fair, some of that is down to the rise in the numbers of vegetarians in the post-war period. Some vitamins simply aren’t in non-animal products so they’re going to have to take them unless their food is contaminated with microbes of faeces-based fertilizers (so, no, there are no 100% vegetarians). Similarly there are others on various diets that exclude one or more vitamins. But even so it does seem odd that there are quite so many vitamins on the shelves.