Financial & Travel Musings

One of the big plus points of the technological developments over the decades is how items that were previously very much exclusively the preserve of the rich have become available to us all.

The list is long and getting longer. These days just about everyone can go on a cruise whereas not so long ago cruises were very much once in a lifetime type of holidays. If you’d heard about someone with their own cinema even ten years back you’d have known that they were loaded yet these days many people have home cinema systems and home theatre seating is widely available.

Let’s hope that the current economic blip doesn’t disturb this trend too much.

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The key part of your engine is one of the very smallest, namely the bearings.

These tiny little things come as part and parcel of just about every piece of machinery that we use these days so the things are produced by the million right around the world and oodles of different sizes too of course. Although seemingly trivial these little items are naturally essential to keep the various moving parts actually moving: you definitely notice them if they’ve rusted up for sure.

And, of course, they’re used in those neat little puzzles for the kids.

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It turns out that unbeknownst to me the wall lights that we’ve had for years are actually called wall sconces which probably explains why I’ve not been able to find updated versions of them on google lately.

After many years of faithful service we’re going to have to search out some new ones as the existing ones are starting to pack in. Darned handy they are too: not only is the light distributed much better around the room but you can forget about bumping into them in the middle of the room.

I’d never have been searching for “sconces” though!

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