Sunday - May 8

Melbourne - Victoria - Australia


Nothing pleases a boy more than arriving back into Melbourne and opening the sports pages to read of the continued dominance of his beloved football team

Observation of the day - There is a very prominent campaign here illustrating the perils of alcohol consumption. Whether it be highlighting the dangers of drinking and driving or the ramifications of excessive alcohol consumption on your ability to fight all manner of diseases but most of all, cancer. The campaign exists on billboards at roadside, and in all forms of the media both radio and television. Given that the burden alcohol related illnesses have on public medical expenditures is far greater than that related to tobacco it would seem only logical. It's somewhat confusing therefore that more western societies, (especially the US and UK) don't do the same.

Tuesday - May 3

The end is surely nigh when a newspaper as venerable as The Times starts espousing the virtues and simplicity of trading Foreign Exchange with a 10 page supplement that reads like '' FX for Dummies'' as it did today.

As an aside I read elsewhere today that there have now been twice as many civilian deaths in Syria (following the protests there) as there were in Libya before the Allied forces decided to get involved in the latter justifying their actions on ''humanitarian grounds''. I'm guessing though that as the only oil Syria has, is olive in make up and texture, that it might be a while for a bit of consistency in foreign policy to shine through.

And more food for thought. If we seek retribution for an ill done to us by inflicting the same upon the transgressor then aren't we simply lowering ourselves to their standards? What happened to respecting a nations sovereignty? I thought that was a cornerstone in the makeup of the UN Charter.

Monday May 2

Kwakutil totem pole - Savill Gardens - Great Windsor Park

A single piece of Western Red Cedar measuring 100 ft in height and 27,000 lbs in weight cut from a tree 600 years old as a gift to HRH Queen Elizabteh II in 1958 to mark the centenary of British Columbia. 

Tsylwyhtt

Sunday - May 1

Goodwood racing club. Surrey.

Goodwood members sports car show day. Where the wealthy get to show how really wealthy they are. And the rest of us get to walk around in the Spring sunshine feeling very poor.

Lamborghini

                  

 Ferrari F30

The Latest Mercedes Gullwing

                  

                  Ferrari something

Porsche . All style and class.

Ferrari F355 (I think)

                

                      Cobra AC

Aston Martin. Truly British

Ferrari F4

Alfa Romeo's latest retro model

Bugatti Veron. The worlds fastest and most expensive production car. Top speed? Fast. Very very fast.

Another Cobra AC

Even the Japanese turned up. The latest from Lexus

Not 1 but 4 De Lorean's ! Top speed a staggeringly underwhelming 85 mph .

The iconic Tessarossa. Thanks to Miami vice and Don Johnson.

A Ford !!!!

Bentley. All class.

Saturday - April 30

An 11km walk through  the wooded English countryside in Surrey.

Quintessentially British. A solo polo player trains against the backdrop of the ruins of Cowdray ruins at Cowdray Park.

                                               Cowdray ruins.

Friday - Royal Wedding

There was only one thing going on today. I was fortunate enough to be there and took a few snaps.

Oh. OK. I wasn't really there. Like 99.9999999 % of the rest of the UK population I was at either home or a party (the latter in my case) watching it on TV.