Musings from the sublime to the ridiculous and then .. Vallejo Paint Pots

We live in truly extraordinary times and without meaning to sound trite (considering the immense loss of life already endured in the world and so much more to come), I hope for one that "something" good can come from the Corona Virus Pandemic. I may be proved wrong, I have seen the best and worst (including silliest) of actions from people but I hope we can all come to a better sense of understanding with our relationship with nature and what we truly value in life. The ease at which something so small as a virus can effect the very fabric of everything we took simply "for granted" as a "given" in our daily lives is humbling in a very, very frightening way. The fragility of the system (hit by The Black Swan event ... OK, I agree scientists said that a Pandemic "would occur" but the caveat was always "probably not in my lifetime") maybe is only be apparent afterwards, despite what the prophets and naysayers say, but the living through it is my "lifetime defining experience" .. it is true to say I am discovering so many home truths about myself (and my family) on a daily basis, none more so disturbing than the fact that I "forget what Vallejo paints I have bought". With extra time on my hands I "spring cleaned" the family grocery cupboard to find we had so many multiple packs of things we had on the go. From pasta, rice, sugar, flour and spices, all with multiples of half to a quarter packs full, were abound. I gave a lecture befitting of Caesar on the perils of waste in the current climate to my children and wife, then settled back to my hobby area to find (again with more time than I knew what to do with on my hands - "How about the cleaning and the washing up?" said the wife) I had acquired a lot of clutter and unearthed some tubs of Vallejo paints. To my ashamed horror it appears that the genetic trait of "having several things open of the same thing at the same time" was probably from my side of the DNA, or nature versus nurture debate (see below, a green tub, a brown tub, a sand tub and a grey tub - and these were only the Model Colour range - containing multiples):

Argh, "hoist with my own petard" as Shakespeare put it in Hamlet ;)