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While it may not be very unusual to experience sunshine during summer, the closer you get to the British Isles the rarer a commodity it becomes. Considering the total absence of an Indian Summer this year, we are supposed to have a truly wonderful weekend. Feel lucky people! You get the opportunity to fill the air with smoke from your barbeques and have a good time for once!

It is forecast (I am not trying to jinx anything here…) to be sunny, without clouds and no rain.

Go forth and be jolly!

Written somewhere in the garden.

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The last few months have been largely uneventful.

• Beginning of June I broke my left ankle in three places, when I slipped on someones slipped drink at a friend’s birthday party.
• I have spent the summer months at home, due to the broken ankle, following the American Presidential election primaries, first supporting Hilary Clinton and now Barack Obama.
• Russia and Georgia have been at war. There is widespread discord as to who attacked whom and what caused the whole pandemonium. Russia said it intervened in South Ossetia and another Georgian breakaway region because Georgia had attacked there resident Russian Nationals, while many other nations have condemned the Russian activities. Both sides have bombed the place back to the stone-age. Civilans were once again the ones suffering the most.
• Meanwhile the Olympic Games took place in China, mainly in Beijing. I have followed many of the games, watched the opening and closing ceremony and was very impressed. The next Olympic Games in London in 2012 will have very high expectations to meet. In the words of London’s Mayor Boris: Ping Pong is coming home.
• I have in the last few weeks begun to walk again and I am getting better, so things are definitely looking up.
• On the same day I booked a flight to Spain a plane crashed in Madrid, killing most of the passengers. It is safe to fly, repeat, it is safe to fly, it is safe to fly, it is safe to fly…
• General Musharraf (no longer a General) resigned as President of Pakistan, causing a political vacuum that several dubious figures are furiously trying to fill.
• Just in the last few days Russia officially recognised Abkhazia and South Ossetia as sovereign, leading to condemnation of the seven other G8 countries. Recently the news have been filled with Cold-War like rhetoric. Strong are the words coming from NATO, particularly from the US and Great Britain. However, they appear futile as Russia does not seem to be in the mood to listen.

UPDATE: I am now also twittering, as Hugh pointed out in the comments.

Good Night.

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With the temeratures dropping a bit, and more and more clouds appearing in the sky something like this definitely cheers me up big time.

I have also been drafted to mow the lawn, which is no easy task in our new house. I mean, have you seen the garden? I think I need a motorised lawnmower. I am putting my trust in Nico to provide the obligatory link to a few motorised lawnmower retailers.

However, coming back to more important things. I love spring/summer with all its associated perks.

And before anybody asks, no she does not have only one arm, she was stroking her other hand through her hair.

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I completely forgot to mention that Wimbledon is on again and that as a consequence I am glued to the telly whenever I get the chance. However, it is but small recompense for missing the Summer JADE Meeting in Paris, which, even though the organisation team should really be exiled to the moon, I would have loved to attend.

My dear friends Desi and Natalia are running for positions on the next JADE Executive Board and I wish them both all the best. My thoughts are with you both.

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