Just a tease
While we have the heat wave, I have looked forward to some refreshing rain.
The last four days around 2pm we get clouds, some of them are even grey, but they are just teasing us, they go away again.
We were warned last week that the temps would remain high until the 15th. Last night they did a report on TV that said maybe until the end of the month, like the heat wave in 2001; or even later. The this afternoon the weather reporter said the 20th. Quite frankly, I don’t think they know. Meanwhile we suffer; this is the fourth day of 43ºC.
I hope you enjoyed my ‘quickie’ post at 2am this morning. Later when I got up at gentleman’s hours, I read some more of my previous posts. There are a lot there worth reading.
I even opened my music page and had a trip down memory lane, but I was disappointed to find that many video clips had disappeared for copyright reasons and stuff.
I will have to do a clean up there, and that is going to be a real bitch of a job.
Monday things: I opened a new bag of sugar this morning for my coffee; it was bloody full of ants. So now I have to scoop out ants from my coffee before drinking.
I once had a Warrant Officer who after going to Farnborough Air Show many years ago said to me “That communism maybe a flawed social doctrine, but they build shit hot planes.” He was of course referring to the Russians and an aerial display of the latest Sukhoi fighter of the time.
I must admit, that it looks like one awesome plane.
Vietnam is on the way downhill, McDonald’s opened their first outlet (I refuse to call them restaurants) in Hanoi last week. The nasty creep of capitalism. Of course the franchise is owned by the prime minister’s son-in-law, now why doesn’t that surprise me?
The Japanese have upset New Zealand. One of their whaling fleet entered EEZ waters and refused to leave. It has caused a bit of a political row. The Japanese whaling is against international law; they say it is for research. Bollocks! You don’t need 1,ooo whales each year for research, it’s commercial whaling in another guise. The Japanese are defying an international moratorium on whaling, and they should be brought to heel.
Damn, it’s so hot, the only sensible thing to do, is have another nap to escape the heat.
Later.
Remember this:
“GOD created the world, everything else is made in China.”
One of the great things about having a blog is re-reading old posts. It’s quite a nice record of events and feelings at the time.
We have problems with ants here too. And moths. This is another reason I dislike hot climates: there are too many insects!
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>Rachel, I’m usually too busy to read my own posts. By the time I blog on 8 blogs and read all the follows and people who have commented and reply to the comments, my time is gone. But, yes, you are right, it is a great idea and I must do it more often.
AV
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Everything else IS made in China. When I went to Budapest, the Hungarian crafts in the markets were made in China! ANnoying – except for the CHinese I guess. Come to think of it, how do we KNOW the earth wasn’t made in China? Look at all the faults in it!
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>but, I refuse to buy Chinese. But in a ‘crafts’ market you don’t expect to find Chinese, that’s terrible. You could be right about the Earth… 🙂
AV
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Excellent. An anti made in China post. Saves me writing one. We went into a shop the other day and I saw something I liked. Where was it made? China. So no sale today buddy. I’d rather pay more and have it last more than a week.
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>Andrew, I like to take a swipe at Chinese products. I hate them. I pay more too.
AV
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Right on about the whalers. Did you say *eight* blogs?
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>helen, thanks for stopping by, yes, I have actually 9 blogs, but I have reduced my Shit Happens to satire of Saturday only. I blog on most daily, you can fins the links om the side or footer bars, depending on the blog design.
AV
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