It Is… Pt 40

‘sun eating dragons’
‘cf’

… What in the wide, wide world of, what happened there, happened there? The clocks went back in the northern hemisphere, specifically Blighty, as if they go bonkers anywhere else, and without so much as a by your leave, all went very dark, cold and wintry. Such is the case, but by-gummily, in an instant, just like that (not like that), buuff, dark. When only just the day before, in that ol’ summerly saving season, it didn’t darken till, ooh, perhaps just shy of the dragon-eating sun, and now, boom, Sunday arvo, just outside Manchester and a smidgen before tea time and boom, pitch black, cold and very wintry. Hmmm, yes, just mentioned that. Darkness and drastic and drilled with mind-warp tunnels looping to the abyss. Sunrises are nice and light though. Leaves are yellow, lime, purple and red. The nimble deadly Asian tiger mosquito is less apparent buzzing its nuisance in the bathroom. Sorry, flashback. And now on the tail coats of fancy, there so happens to be snow in New Zealand and South Africa, and that as they spring board their way into summer. South Africa are often plunged into darkness but somehow loadshedding didn’t occur during the Rugby World Cup, uncanny. The Boks snuffed out the All-Blacks’ light to see hope for their fourth time. Came first and fourth, which is a river in Scotland and also totally bamboozling to its reference in the first place.  while England effectively came third on the basis, they were probably 5^th or 6^th at best. Are we still talking rugby? Leaves everywhere. The colours robust. The nights long and dark. Pierce another plastic film lid with a near to hand pen and pop it in the microwave. Leave the dish cloth to soak in bleach in the sink. Don’t wash your hands in there. Go to bed at 9, read, get up and rinse and repeat (queue song).  Isn’t there more to the cold dark wet and windy nights under the duvet. Wrap in straw and newspaper and wake in March. Oh, stir me for my birthday would you. There, a whole garbled shard of nonsense without using he, I, she, we, you, they and they’re, which was the intent… until the end when I forgot, and there again, oh and in the middle bit too, would you believe it, damn, shall we go…

… to the World News…

 The FBI have named Irvine in Orange County, California as the safest city in the US. Not so amazing, except it is for the 18^th year running. I should be running to keep warm, I’m in the car Doctor’s waiting room and it’s blimmin freezing. Still in the Grow Your Own mag you can win a lemon, lime or orange ‘citron’ tree worth £19.95 which is a bit surreal isn’t it!

Ukraine is fast becoming self-sufficient at rearming itself since reliability on world supplies are running thin. Though, they are happy to receive their first US made F-16 combat fighter from Holland and are expecting more soon from Denmark, Norway and Belgium. While we’re here; Swedish outfit H&M are returning to Ukraine, following the previous mass exodus by the likes of Coca Cola, Ikea and Carlsberg – who knew H&M were Swedish. And with Ikea, surely, they can make their own flat pack fighter.

As much as the world welcomes AI with all its possibilities there is an overwhelming concern for its safety. The AI Safety Summit at UK’s Bletchley Park, Alan Turing’s old gaff, is not simply to discuss potential job displacement and losing cutting edge but the realistic fear of robots taking over. Even China and US are snuggling up on this conundrum, especially following recent spats over potential threats in the South China Sea and specifically Philippines, which US said would defend to the hilt, whereby China’s response was to pull all its panda bears from US zoos home early.

Kenya is proposing to scrap visas for African nations. President William Ruto, who was recently at the International Conference for Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Tropical Forests in Brazzaville Republic of Congo, wow, what a sentence, anyway, he said, ‘It’s time we realise that having visa restrictions against ourselves is working against us. When people cannot travel, business people cannot travel, we all become net losers.’ – Would be nice to live in a world like that huh.

The French president Macron, seemingly does, he’s been to 30 countries this year. Now he’s off to Kazakstan, by invitation of himself to, muscle in the Summit for Organisation of Turkic States. Uzbekistan, Krygestan and Turkey no stan will be there, and it just so happens Kazakstan and Uzbekistan are France 1 & 3 suppliers of Uranium.

Ok, Iraqi Airways are back flying direct to Denmark and Germany. They were banned for 8 years after being rubbish, variable safety concerns and just generally a poor service, to the point where a couple of their pilots had a fist fight in 2018. Good to see them back though.

Ok, lastly, Banff Centre Mountain Film & Book Festival is on in Alberta – North America’s premier adventure themed book and film event for the past 48 years. If you’re going, why not travel with German luggage label Rimawi’s new leather collection, Distinct, which is effectively their old metal cases wrapped in leather, since they found a new radical way of doing it… now everyone will be doing it. Just do it, now who said that.

 Till next weak – spelling correct.

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