Two dear friends recently decided to sell the billiard table they had hoped would provide shared family experiences for their children and grand children. Living on a pension, with an unexpected bill for a new hot water service, it's time to let it go... and those family dreams... This led us - I helped out here - to learn all about selling on Gumtree. The price they sold it reflected its utility to them relative to the young man who arrived with cash to collect it with two of his friends. In as new condition, it was sold with the frame for cues and balls and a spare set of balls - a real bargain at $800 - loss of $1700 (value of dreams?) in three years. But how $800 would help with those bills - and it was collected and relocated with ease on the same day, a boon for the two mid-seventy year old sellers! |
This week David Bowie died aged 69 of cancer ... Also aged 69, actor ....Alan Rickman,. Died of cancer yesterday. Their contribution to the cultural experiences and memories of many, the replaying if the film, video and audio creative products they generated used as tributes in another round of cultural consumption...
I just found a note written at a conference earlier this year...
Social Capital - 'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts'... Keeping it here 'for the record'. |
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