Dave turned a quarter of a century this week… we went to the climbing walls ‘clip and climb’ area before heading to the pub. It’s a funky play area.. e.g. climbing on perspex so you can race against your opponent, velcro walls so you only get minimum grip with your fingers.. speed climbing… lots of fun (thanks to Dave for the pics)
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So… I dunno how many of you think about peak oil and some of the possible reasons behind the Iraq war (and maybe the Iranian one?) But I thought Robert Newman’s History of Oil (27megs) from http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/ was quite good. Firstly it’s comedy (and I love good comedy!)… but he explains some ideas in fairly understandable language. For example the petrodollar cycle (oil is traded only in dollars… and why this has real benefits for Americas economy (and the deficit they can run)).
Look! I’m not turning into a raving anarchist (even though I do live with some interesting types!) but I thought it was both fun and interesting.. so thought I’d share :)
Other news.. thanks to all who have posted to http://picaweek.blogspot.com. Just go to www.blogger.com with username/password picaweek/picaweek. You can post anonymously or get a login if you want (mail me).
The idea (again) of picaweek, was to collect pictures from friends & family & anyone who comes across this blog and feels like it – from around the world. So far there’s posts from Africa (Uganda and Ghana (who is/was in Ghana?!?!), North America, South America (cousin Thomas in Peru), Asia (Thailand and China), Europe (Ireland (yay), Germany, Italy and Austria). So I think that’s got every continent covered except for Antarctica. Anyways.. thanks again to all who have put pictures up… I’m planning on getting into the hills this weekend so hopefully will have something purty to put up :)
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