Financial & Travel Musings

The price of weddings seems on a never ending spiral upwards with not only inflation to contend with but increasing requirements for little extras around the main business of the wedding too.

So, as well as the wedding invitations, you now need to send “save the date” cards so that people can pencil the big event into their diaries even further in advance than they used to. Those bits of admin mean that it’s not uncommon to need a wedding planner to pull all the various bits and pieces together so that the day is a success.

Even for the main items it’s becoming more of a hassle with the need to co-ordinate the bridesmaid dresses with the rest of the stylistic features of the wedding.

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I was just watching a rerun of One foot in the grave which was made in the 1990s and it’s amazing how different it is in some aspects from series that would be made these days.

The most striking thing about it was what seemed to be product placement yet wasn’t because it was the BBC. Or at least, one assumes that it wasn’t explicit product placement. Not an episode goes by without one product being named repeatedly throughout the show. It’s more striking because these days even labels from trainers have to be removed (often at considerable expense) before they can be approved for use in a show.

Older TV shows from the 1950s would feature Black and Mild cigars as celebration events for the arrival of a new baby yet these days smoking isn’t allowed at all in hospitals and would be seriously censured in a maternity ward obviously. That’s a particularly noteworthy different in shows made in the 1950s though, oddly, not in those made earlier.

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Our little guys both made the absolutely definite decision last week that they didn’t want to go back to the football coaching until the summer sessions started again.

They’re not too keen on going out in the really cold weather and the hall that the winter sessions are held in is rather dingy. In the summer it’s all outside on a proper pitch. It’s better for us too as we had a great spot to sit and watch the little guys vs our winter spot lined up along the wall of the hall.

However, this week it’s a different tale as they’ve gone from absolutely definitely not wanting to go back until the summer, to mad keen to go this Saturday.

Oh well.

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