Nostalgia, What Nostalgia?

One of the great historical icons of Australia - was originally started by an American, Freeman Cobb.

Cobb & Co were the equivalent in Australia of the great stagecoach companies of America before the 'iron horse' came to rule the plains.

I've had the pleasure and the privilege of having seen one of the premium, when at their peak after the Lambing Flat gold discovery, Cobb & Co stagecoaches, and my god, it is something like an even more luxurious thing (if you can imagine it) than a Rolls Royce. It is dramatically solid, and stylish, and high-quality, and beautiful.

Simply beautiful - Japanese caliber,
battery-powered workings

Today, you can I think, still get the occasional men's aftershave from Avon called 'Cobb & Co.' 

And there is a company which makes clocks using the 'Cobb & Co' name. And they also make a very beautiful style of watch of their own design using varieties of Australian natural wood and gold or steel. 

Soon, I believe even the Postal Services in Australia will be cutting back on the 'normal' delivery of envelope mail. 

Personally I really approve of the way I see ordinary everyday people of almost every kind sitting at bus-shelters thumb-tapping away on their latest Samsung intelligent phones. People like to write and read more than they ever did; which is a good thing.

Some things you read and/or write are of course, constructed with a great deal of thought and skill and art. 

Tomorrow the 2015 Geneva Motor Show will open to the public and in it, will be the new Aston Martin Vulcan track racer. In limited numbers of maybe around thirty, this car is the equivalent of a Samsung Galaxy Intelligent Phone.

The following pic is not of the Vulcan, but it is an Aston Martin and you will not see much publicity about this edition anywhere.

Aston Martin DBC - rare,
but real...

The fact is, today, there are at least two different worlds.