Financial & Travel Musings

When you get to a certain age most people start to get really self-conscious about their hair or rather about how there’s getting to be less of it than it used to be.

The problem is that hair loss cures aren’t really much of a cure for the most part. In fact, there’s only one that actually works and that’s Minoxidil but the problem is that it requires you to work at it for the rest of your life which is something that few people can keep up with.

So cures, yes. Perfect cures, not yet.

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There are some weeks that just seem way too long aren’t there?

We’re at the end of what seems one of the longest weeks for a long time yet funnily enough no tangible progress was made with hardly anything. Always the way, isn’t it? You end up totally knackered with dark circles under eyes yet have pretty much nothing to show for all that work.

Still, at least this lack of progress was in many ways just an illusion as there’s a whole lot of loose ends that were getting tied up and things should really start to move ahead next week.

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I suspect that anyone who saw the photos of that Finish jet a few days ago would probably be voting for ground based transport until the air is completely clear of the ash and dust.

It looks like extensive lobbying on the part of the various airlines has brought forward the time by which they’ll be permitted to fly once more. However, the question is whether people will opt for those flights or choose to go with land/sea based transport.

It’s a difficult call. Test flights can only test so much airspace. They certainly can’t test all the different concentrations of ash and dust that the planes might encounter. After all, there are tens of thousands of flights to be taken when things do get back to normal compared to a very small number of test flights taken up to that time. That means that, in effect, each commercial flight will become part of the test programme and I’m not so sure that’s a flight that I’d like to be on.

Yes, it’s a major hassle for all concerned but given a week or two it would be possible to get everyone back to where they should be without requiring all those flights.

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