Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
How much will you spend on Hot Air?
In spite of the whitewash over the leaks from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University, which concentrated on the leaked emails and resolutely ignored the real story – the flawed programmes which manipulated the raw data into showing warming whatever was happening in the real World, the convenient ‘loss’ of the world-wide raw data upon which the over-hyped warming predictions were made, and the total discrediting of the IPCC and its corrupt leader Rajendra Pachauri – the actual science is actually beginning to influence politicians as the Australian and US Governments abandon their ridiculous Emissions Trading schemes. bad science
Choo Choo Lament
Last of the steam-powered trains – The Kinks
Freedom day
Today is a public holiday in South Africa, it has been since 1995 and commemorates the first democratic elections to be held here.
Unlike other countries our public holidays are on the actual date i.e 27th April, 16th June irrespective of which day of the week upon which it falls.
With this weeks holiday falling on a Tuesday a lot of South Africans took Monday off as well and enjoyed a long weekend.
But I digress, I want to introduce you to Dan Heymann, he wrote the words and music of “Weeping” during the mid-1980’s when he ‘was an unwilling soldier Continue reading “Freedom day”
Three coffee songs
Here are three songs with ‘coffee’ in the title. The first is a Bob Dylan one, ‘One More Cup of Coffee’, from the Mexican-flavoured Desire album, released in the mid-seventies during his second creative peak. Bizarrely, the Dylan version isn’t available on YouTube, but this one by the White Stripes is pretty good … it doesn’t have Scarlet Rivera’s violin or Emmylou’s harmonies, but it retains a touch of Mexican mystery. Continue reading “Three coffee songs”
Gray
I was watching a film. A typical The Conte of Monte Cristo adaptation. The good boy was betrayed by his best friends. He returns in another identity and starts taking his revenge. Step by step, bit by bit he was making them suffer in the very same way they had done to him. As a good audience I was enjoying to see them suffer. Continue reading “Gray”
Country side sayings
In these parts they say if the ash is out before the oak, we’re in for a soak and if the oak is out before the ash, we’re in for a splash. Continue reading “Country side sayings”
Gentle stroll in the Chilterns
Nothing too strenuous you understand, but a pleasant stroll on chalk downland, avoiding the rabbit holes. Lovely views, which unfortunately, are quite difficult to photograph successfully.
Not another soul in sight, but a lamentable lack of red kites; wrong time of day, so the photograph is one I took earlier. It’s the closest I could get. They seem to soar in leisurely fashion, but in fact they are moving much too fast for me to snap successfully.
The Ugliest Statue in the World
The story goes that this statue of Peter the Great was originally going to be Christopher Columbus – a present to the US from Russia. The Americans, however, took one look at it and said, ‘No, thanks, bub,’ and who can blame them?
Someone asked what the buildings I have been photographing might have looked like in Soviet times, so I found a few
A divine plan? Maybe….
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
Boadicea's Chariot 
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