The Rest is Silence
HAPPY NEW YEAR
It’s January and I’d like to wish a very Happy New Year to our loyal reader. And may 2009 be everything and more than none of the rest of us expect it to be.
But, as ever, good can come from dark days even such these. Now that my e-mail isn’t pinging at me all day, I have so much more of my life available to think about the really important things in life. Now I can get around to creating that new Facebook page of my seventeen-year-old self. Ah, to be a teenager again. How happy those days were, when Ford Anglias still roamed the streets.
And over Christmas I was finally able to put all those manufacturers’ samples to good effect; the colour-changing LED sample box from OSRAM stood sterling service beneath our driftwood Christmas Tree (come on: this is Dorset – home of the Jurassic Coast and the hippy artist, after all); the blue LED uplight in the corner of the living room looked great once we’d turned all the lights out and headed for bed; and a special thanks to my good friends at UFO for the LED fibre-optic sample that I’ve managed to convince friends is a unique piece of light-art, commissioned by their favourite lighting designer.
One thing I notice about the global economic melt-down is how quiet it is. We’ve been encouraged to expect catastrophes to have a fantastic soundtrack, with glaciers cracking, cities full of people howling, and all the denizens of Hades flying screaming from the void. Instead of that, the phone just stopped ringing.
The rest - as they say – is silence.
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