My second Blog entry on this astonishingly hot night, relates to the shrinking World. We have bought a second home and I am down in South Wales shoring up the structure and making good those many jobs that occur when we invest in property. It's so warm that the work on this occasion is being done outside.
I was beavering away, and a lovely chap walked around the corner. Well he has to be lovely because he is one of my new neighbours. Well, we got chatting because I thought that he thought that I was a tradesman and he had just popped out to offer me a cup of tea. I know that's an English thing and I'm Welsh, but the family will tell you, I am particularly partial to a nice cuppa. Especially when working.
Unfortunately there was no tea in the offering, but it was nice to chat about Africa. Mr Nice is from the Cameroon, and his Mum had just got out of a taxi on a two week visit from Africa. No, she used a Plane, and didn't travel all the way by taxi. I must try and sit down with them and have a chat once 'Mum' has settled into Wales for her brief stay. I have friends from Ghana, and the Sudane and it would be nice to learn some more about the Cameroon. With this heatwave in place, Africa is well in the forefront of my thoughts. Tonight will be like my time in Accra, but unlike Jeffers, I don't have a blinking great big fan rotating on the ceiling and a blinking great big lizard moving up and down the wall. But sat in the flat Blogging, feels like the time I was sat in the house in Accra. It is astonishingly warm, and I long for tomorrow daytime and the fresh air as I work hard to protect our investment.
7 July 2010
Proper Colonial Finalists
Well, who would have expected Spain to defeat Germany 1-0 in the 2nd of the two FIFA 2010 World Cup Semi Finals in Africa? The Germanic fluency that I mentioned in a previous Blog, simply didn't come alive tonight. In many ways it's a grave pity, but the upside is that we will now have a new Football World Cup winning nation.
And that folk's is the way of things, change happens and a new order comes into existence. The European Great Powers searched for lands to Colonise. The 20th Century collapse led to the emergence of Russia and the United States of America. Although the good old USA (our special relations across the Pond) won't be too keen to let go, there is however, an inevitability to the emergence of Asian leading nations. Japanese economic strength and Chinese population transferred into economic growth will eventually lead to Asian dominance of World affairs.
To put it simply, things that can change, often do change. Holland against Spain, who would of thought of it?
And that folk's is the way of things, change happens and a new order comes into existence. The European Great Powers searched for lands to Colonise. The 20th Century collapse led to the emergence of Russia and the United States of America. Although the good old USA (our special relations across the Pond) won't be too keen to let go, there is however, an inevitability to the emergence of Asian leading nations. Japanese economic strength and Chinese population transferred into economic growth will eventually lead to Asian dominance of World affairs.
To put it simply, things that can change, often do change. Holland against Spain, who would of thought of it?
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