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Posted on October 28, 2022 by royiii
That's what I think it is all about now – just living for the moment – to quote the strapline from a well-known sports shoe manufacturers, just do it!
I fully appreciate that there are limits. Unless you are a millionaire, life just doesn't offer up the prospect of a carefree hedonistic existence, but you can kind of scale down the parameters.
In my case, this involves me realising my dream of getting something that I have been meaning to buy for years, namely a seriously wide-screen telly!
At the moment my flat is home to this monster:
Wide-screen dream?
As you can tell, it is not too bad in the size stakes – it boasts an expansive forty-seven inch monitor, sporting LED (Light Emitting Diode for those acronym lovers out there) technology that gives a good quality picture.
It does have some drawbacks though. The TV is about ten years old and predates the flat-screen models that came out later.
The set itself is bulky and, along with the cabinet housing, takes up most of the area in front of the window, blocking the front room radiator.
There is also the competition to take care of – for years my forty-seven inch telly trumped my mate from the Kingston Radio Station – his thirty-two inch screen just didn't cut the mustard! Then he turned the tables and got a fifty-inch flat monitor TV that made my telly look as if it was from Jurassic Park.
So, action will need to be taken to free up my front room and return the TV size bragging rights very firmly back to the jurisdiction of New Malden!
The plan is to buy an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode – don't ask but the contrast is supposed to be awesome) Smart TV set with a fifty-five inch screen. These have a modern flat-screen set-up, and if the TV is mounted on the wall above the mantel piece, loads of room will be freed up.
Even though the funds are more or less in place, there are a few things delaying the purchase. The onerous household chore of fixing the kitchen sink taps will need to be sorted as a priority, and this could potentially cost some.
Also, as I am now mostly in the family home helping care for my Mum, I just don't get the time to organise things.
I have given myself the task of trying to sort these things early next year, maybe as a New Year's resolution.
If I can't get them done then it may well be the case of dreaming on!
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