A busy week,
I’ve done a bit of teaching, I have given a speech at a local Suzhou Garden
event and I feel that I haven’t had time to scratch me arse. But that is the
least of my problems really. On Monday I will have the water heater at my hoose
in Australia changed because the current solar tank system has sprung a leak.
Well it has had problems for a few months but I think it’s time to bite the
bullet. I have an idea what the cost will be, but I am hoping that it’s not
going to be too high. Nothing is cheap these days and an electrician and a
plumber must be the most expensive trades.
But I guess in
the big scheme of things it is no more than a blip on the horizon, especially
if you look at what is happening around the world. I’m happy that my VPN is
working again but it is also horrific to see what this clown Trump is doing in
the world and I am also disgusted to see that the British government are giving
him ammunition against Iran. I want to travel later in the year or early next
year and I am sure I am not alone in this, but when you have a fucking bunch of
greedy fanatical Americans bullying the world you just don’t know what tomorrow
will bring. I dread to think what will happen when Boris becomes PM.
The days of, “shoot
first and ask questions later”, has always been the prime policy for America
both in a domestic capacity as well as internationally. They really are just
arrogant, self centred and don’t give a fuck about anyone else and at the moment
they have the ideal person to push the buttons. The ideal puppet being
manipulated by the republican hawks, although Trump thinks he is in charge. The
British government should be ashamed of themselves for not supporting their
diplomat who seemed to be one of the few people to speak the truth about the
Trump Whitehouse. Britain needs to stick with Europe and the others that are
involved with Iran, stand firm against America and resolve the problem that is
on going in the Gulf. They keep saying that there are mechanisms in place to
circumvent the sanctions that are on Iran; well I say they should proceed and
forget America even exists. America is a rogue state and always has been. Mind
you the British government can’t implement the wishes of the British people in
regards to Brexit and so I guess it’s a bit much to ask them to resolve the
Iran problem or stand up to America a bit more.
I remember years
ago we were all drinking at the Cochrane House hotel, our usual drinking hole.
There were a few of us there, Lambert, Stuart, Dougie and myself……….although I
have a feeling there were more but can’t quite pull the names out of the memory
banks. Dougie was always an idiot after drinking too much; mind you he was an
idiot most of the time. He started an argument with another guy in the pub and eventually
we had to separate them before they killed each other. We all went back to our
respective corners and finished our evening in relative peace. Dougie just kept
drinking his double Black Russians……..he always had to get a double which was a
bone of contention when we were buying rounds. He was angry and drunk and more
obnoxious than usual. Anyway last orders
was upon us and we drank up and left and we decided to walk Lambert part of the
way home because it was a little bit risky at times to walk along behind Johnstone
High school on his way back to the Castle. We reached Cochrane Castle and low and
behold the guys from the pub were standing there, the nutter that Dougie had
been arguing with in the pub and soon it was on again ………nose to nose, chest to
chest and then the shoving begins. Not sure who threw the first punch but the
three of us just stood there and let it happen and so did the other guys
friends. We stood around smoking and laughing at the two idiots fighting over
the size if their “dicks”
This reminds me of Trump, of America………….start a fight with someone and then try to drag every Tom Dick and Harry into the fray and for what?
Trump thinks
that he is right and everybody else is wrong, America is just the latest
business venture that he is involved in that he will bring crashing down and
that is fine by me, I don’t really care what America does to itself but it’s
the fact that he will bring many other countries and people down with him. The
most powerful country in the world has a fucking Neanderthal at the helm. We
have all see the scenario before where we have an idiot in the Whitehouse doing
what he is told by the folk around him, mind you when you watch it on TV direct
from Hollywood at least we can have a laugh about it.
If you look back over the years at the involvement of America in world affairs since the end of WW2 you will see a familiar pattern. Trump is not the first lunatic that we have seen in the Whitehouse since then and I’m sure he won’t be the last. With the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America and a return to the dark ages in many states, I fear things will only get worse before they get better. Oh and don’t forget the PetroDollar. All these so called interventions around the world are mostly driven by the amount of money that can be made from said adventure. It’s common place for America to create a problem and then solve it by blowing the shit out of it. Mind you there is a documentary that you should watch called the “Coming war with China” in which you will see how they experimented with the lives of many innocent people in the Pacific while they were testing the Nuclear Bomb.
And so this
morning I got up and the rain has stopped and after breakfast I went to the
park, saw the old familiar faces. I haven’t been to the park as often this week
because I’ve been busy and the last two days the rain has been pissing down. It’s
great to listen to the rain at night; it helps me get to sleep. Today however
is rather pleasant, the air is fresh and the humidity is being kept at bay by
the breeze currently blowing through the apartment. I was going to go to the
hills for a walk but I might leave it till tomorrow, it should have dried out a
bit more by then. Today I will have a lazy day, read my “Stuart Macbride”
novel, do the washing, go for lunch and of course this is always a drama…………..what
to eat? Korean or Chinese…….I’ll work it out later………..I don’t want to stress
too much over this decision.
I started my walk at noon which was a bit stupid I know, but you know I like a challenge. I followed the main path up to the summit and I was hoping I could continue to the coast but as it turned out I had to come back down but I did find another path. In the first picture you will see the mountain in the background, it’s pretty high.It was hot but it was really humid and by the time I got to the top I was soaked to the skin. There were so many butterflies at the summit and as I was having a rest one or two of them landed on me and drank from my shirt. I saw some amazing skinks with long blue tails, I’ve never seen anything like it….. and they were really beautiful. I never got a picture unfortunately.
I headed down a trail that would lead me passed the golden waterfall. There was a cafe there and so I decided to have a caffeine hit, a quaint little place and the coffee was good and it was just what I needed because as I was sitting there I consulted Google maps and realised I had to head back up the hill for about 2 kms to get the bus home. I got there quite easy and so I guess the coffee did what it was supposed to do.
The bus was cold on the way home and I felt it more so because my clothes were wet. I’m now feeling a bit snotty and so I hope I shake it off by the morning. The old man next to me spoke to himself all the way home, the journey took around an hour…..trust me to be sat next to a looney and I was so anxious to get off the bus that I forgot my hat……. I’m forever losing hats.I tried to make a few videos but did not have much luck
