If you are as disorganised as me, one of the penalties of daily blogging is that you end up with less than an hour to post and keep your streak going. I could, if I had due regard for my readers and quality of my output, miss a day. However, when have you ever known me flinch from writing a cynical lightweight post just to make my stats look good?
That’s right, I’ve never flinched from cynical lightweight posts.
I refer, of course, to the cynicism inherent in writing a piece of fluff just to get a tick for the day. The normal cynicism of my character remains constant regardless of the need to write.
Today I offer the following advice to my fellow bloggers.
Always buy the best quality diamond you can afford. Remember the Four C’s of diamond buying. Cut, Colour, Clarity, Carat. Go for quality and do not be dazzled by size. Note that the carat weight of the stone comes last on the list. Better have a smaller sparkling diamond of top quality than a dull diamond of larger size.
Coloured diamonds, whilst expensive are just a novelty and, in my opinion, will be subject to the vagaries of fashion and harder to sell if the need arises.
When I worked out of a jewellers shop I once saw a large diamond that had been bought as an investment. It was large and it was cheap, and it was, to be fair, quite white. However, it didn’t sparkle, it was almost milky, and it had a selection of inclusions (bits of carbon and the like). We had to say that in our opinion it was unsaleable.
It hadn’t cost a fortune so it was a disappointment and a broken dream rather than a crippling financial blow. It was also a lesson about not buying diamonds on ebay.
This is a lesson in life, and can be applied to other areas. My mother always said it is better to have the worst house in a good area than the best house in a bad area. Some friends of our bought a lovely big house in a bad area. By the time they’d fitted security, bought a dog and borrowed a baseball bat it seemed less of a bargain.
It’s nearly midnight now so I’ll leave it here. The photos show the book reviews you can expect over the next few weeks.
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The Blandings book all have essentially the same plot and much the same characters, or slight variations, and are bloody marvellous. Meanwhile, I’m not surprised you bought ‘Eggs or Anarchy’, what an intriguing title.
It;s quite an interesting book (though not as interesting as the jacket blurb implies). 🙂
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I’ve never bought or sold anything on eBay. Definitely cannot store the horse in a drawer. 🙂
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Tootle pip!
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How can I have missed A Pelican at Blandings? Sound advice about not buying horses on Ebay.
I will review it soon. Yes, I may turn the ebay thing into a post, as John suggests.
I’m sure that there must be a blog post out there which lists the 10 worst things to buy on ebay. My suggestion would be a horse.
Horse dealers have a bad enough reputation without the addition of ebay. On top of that, if you make a mistake with a horse you can’t just put it in a drawer and forget it. Horse is current number one on the list. 🙂