Foreign Perspectives

In days of yore there were fantastic weekly magazines that listed everything from a needle to an anchor and lots besides. Sadly they’re all gone these days but in their place we’ve loads of websites that in place of those weekly gems we have the deal of the day.

Of course, it’s not even one deal of the day as in place of a very small handful of magazines there are hundreds of websites and collectively they offer a magnificent variety of stuff for our collective perusal right throughout the day. Just as with their paper predecessors many’s a day can go by just leafing through the selections on offer.

Not that I buy many, of course.

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We’d half an hour to kill after juniors 1 & 2 had the drops in their eyes for the eye test so we spent it wandering around the cosmetic section of the chemist.

What a minefield that was! Whereas elsewhere in the store you’re lucky to even see a shop assistant, in the cosmetic section you can’t even pause for more than 30 seconds before one of them tries to sell you something from their counter (rarely the one you’re looking at).

So if you’re looking for the best wrinkle cream it will always be from whatever brand that they are selling. That’s one of the best examples as there actually is a best wrinkle cream because one of them actually makes the wrinkles reduce rather than merely covering them up as all the others do.

Worse too is that they’re constantly plonking stuff on you. The other day Wendy ended up with quite a severe headache because of that as she’s allergic to one of the products (which, of course, goes straight over the head of the bimbos on those counters).

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Pet shops are largely geared up for small pets and if you’re looking for something in the line of horse supplies then it’s usually outside their remit.

The snag is, of course, that the usual pet shops are quite small places and simply don’t have the space to stock the larger scale of stuff that the larger animals use. However, we’ve found that even supermarket size pet shops don’t bother to stock the gear for the larger animals.

Online, as usual, it’s a different matter fortunately and that’s the place you’re best considering.

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