Foreign Perspectives

After a while any house seems to get gradually more and more cluttered up with bookcases and various other bits of furniture to hold the increasing amount of junk (otherwise known as really neat technology) that we collect these days.

However, there is another way and that’s to use purposed-designed furniture so rather than stack your speakers in what’s basically a cupboard and thereby negate the advantage of the money spent on them, you can get a speaker mount instead. It’s particularly noticeable on speakers as normal furniture will mess up the sounds coming from speakers and that applies equally to the fancy TVs that you get these days too.

Downside is that you’re going to end up with a lot more separate items in the house but you’ll find that you’ve a whole lot more clear floorspace.

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Much as we try to keep a broad focus in the areas of travel & finance here I’m sure that you find that it wanders quite a bit. Therefore what I’m planning on doing is to split it in two with ForeignPerspectives retaining all the travel postings and another blog picking up the financial ones that don’t also fall under the travel/expat headings.

Now, the question is: what to call the new blog? I’d have quite liked FinancialPerspectives.com but unfortunately some plonker has already registered that for one of the junk sites that you seem to get under every decent name these days. Anyway, I’ve been hunting around and still haven’t found anything that seems “just right”.

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You’d think that when they were placing an advert for their holiday property they’d at least read what country it was in, wouldn’t you?

Surprisingly, an increasing number of people these days don’t seem to read anything before they click. For example, this morning I’d a submission to our holiday listings site for a property. Snag was that it was listed as a “for sale” property rather than a holiday one, as being in the French language when it was in English and as not being in France. It seems doubtful that they actually read what they were typing for that one.

To get the process as clean as possible, the main input form for the properties contains information about what should be in every section and yet even there it’s frequently ignored. For instance, whilst we’ve a section that’s for use in sending comments or additional information to me and isn’t published, I very often find that it contains essential information about the property.

Maybe now you’ll understand why some of the large listings sites have adverts that are in very dodgy English!

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