Too much can be a bad thing

Especially when it's magnification.

I have a hobby, I build and paint small, 32 centimetre, figures. As a Discworld fan it seemed a good idea to work on characters from that series. So I bought two witches, Granny and Nanny, and some brushes and paint and started work. All was fine but I soon realised that my eyesight wasn't up to the fine detail. So I bought a magnifying lens and tried again, not good enough. Next, I purchased, from China, a special loupe that has a 20X magnification, very good but just too powerful for anything except very, very fine detail. So, back to ebay and I now await a set of wrap-around lenses that can be mixed and matched for up to 5.5X magnification and a set of incredibly tiny brushes normally used to paint artwork on finger nails. I should add that none of this was expensive. In fact most of it was stupidly inexpensive, the big drawback has been the time taken to reach this point.

I have just heard that my clever daughter has secured the job she went after. She is now the staff manager for a training company in Hampstead. Already, she is wanting to spend money. A printer / scanner seems to be first on the list.