Theatre attendence and the slow down in the global economy?!

Piece on the radio and internet today on how there is yet another theatre show closing down. This is the second one in a month that has closed.
Questions were being asked.... does this mean that people have lost their love of the theatre, are the shows not as good as they were....

Here is another, abeit a little depressing, conclusion. People do not have the spare cash that they did and they are tightening their belts ever so slightly.

Ever so subtle, but is this yet another indicator of the slow down in the economy?
.........could be

Next to look for, nail/manicure shops, art shops and coffee shops. See if the high street starts to change.

Couple of photos of Manila from last week

 
 
 
  

Starbucks coffee vs taxi fare

Have just returned from overseas.

What struck and troubled me a bit whilst drinking my low fat decaf mocha venti latte in the morning was, that the cost of the taxi fare in the morning was less (than one third) of the cost of the coffee I was drinking at that very moment the same morning at Starbucks.

Inequality in society. Something is just not right about that.

Pollution Hong Kong

Pollution in Hong Kong is getting bad.
Couldn't see the city from the air, in fact couldn't see the end of the runway.
Shame really.

The funny thing about greenhouse gases

Not sure if there is much funny about the situation at the moment. It really does seem like the summers are getting warmer, wetter and the winters milder.

However there was an interesting story the other day on the BBC website about ice cores from the Antarcica.
Deep ice tells long climate story Appears CO2 is at the highest level for the last 800,000 years.

Now 800,000 years ago we were running around without a care in the world for mobile phones or who won survivvor (it was the real survivor I suppose).
But even 800,000 year ago it is still recent compared to the age of the dinosaurs (160 million years ago, big cold blooded animals, needing a warm climate). As you know they seemed to become extinct all of a sudden around 60 million years ago.
Logic is this. Now if oil is a bi-product of organic matter and all the oil seems to sit in massive underground reserves, in one location, could this be related to this very extinction event?

Now wouldn't it be ironic if by burning fossil fuels, we could be simply returning the Carbon Dioxide from the past, back into the atmosphere once again. One big circle.

Still not good for humanity and the end of the world as we know it, but a big circle all the same. Funny that.

English Summer

 


Here's a nice country scene from England in the Summer 

Diving the Blue Hole

 

Diving the Blue Hole in Belize. Kind of dark and dingy really, but looks good from the air. 

Website Redesign

Yes there has been another complete website redesign.
Am busy trying to transfer to another web hosting company,
1. It is cheaper
2. It is more local

Anyhow, decided to redesign and base the web updates based off blogger. Is nice and easy to update and probably all that I need for now.

Poem

Very interesting flipping through blogger and came across a whose archive of the titles of previous posts was so almost a poem. Made a few changes is not bad.


nine eleven
a wired generation
the degeneracy of our culture?
or the look of devastation?
the greatest artefact of the century
globalisation or totalitarian?

love for free or forced to fight
fight for love or love to fight

extinguishing peace.........?