Sunday, November 23, 2008

[sunday calm] except for the weather

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It's a bit like this photo over our way today. It's howling in off the Irish Sea and the rain is lashing the windows. I went out for a boat trip a few minutes ago and this is the shot I took from the deck. Don't you just love wild conditions? Here are some more shots:

Above - the state of the sea at this moment

Above, a passing ship making heavy weather of it

Finally, me taking a well earned break on the way back to shore.

11 comments:

  1. James

    I'm jealous, I spent most of my childhood on the sea, i now live 40 miles inland and the nearest I get to a storm is if I had curry the night before.

    You're a lucky man.

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  2. I adore the sea, Angus and have to be within range of it. I can't wait to get back sailing and yes, most of my childhood was there too. It's in our blood, isn't it?

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  3. Oh yes, We didn't have the rugged coast that you do, it was mainly around the solent and Isle of Wight, but it never leaves you.

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  4. I enjoy the sea from dry land. I am someone who can get sea sick on the calmest of water, but I know of your sailing past, James, and I can see you had great fun.

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  5. I see you had weather. Also, that you had a great time.

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  6. I am not sure I would have enjoyed that on a rough sea.

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  7. James.
    As is my usual, I will apply a loose definition to "Stormy Weather" in order to make my post not O/T. (smile)

    Extremely stormy weather is forecast
    The G20-meeting held in Washington on November 14/15, 2008, is in its essence a historical indicator that the Western - above all Anglo-Saxon - monopoly on global economic and financial governance, is coming to an end. Nevertheless, according to LEAP/E2020, this meeting also clearly demonstrated that this kind of summits is doomed to inefficiency because they concentrate on curing the symptoms (banks’ and hedge funds’ financial difficulties, derivative markets’ explosion, financial and currency markets’ dramatic volatility, ...) rather than the fundamental root of the current crisis, i.e. the collapse of the Bretton Woods system based on the US Dollar as sole pillar of the global monetary system. Without a complete overhaul of the system inherited from 1944 by summer 2009, the failing of the current system and that of the United States at the center, will lead the whole planet to an unprecedented economic, social, political and strategic instability, and more specifically to a breakdown of the global monetary system by summer 2009. In light of the technocratic jargon and calendar of the declaration released after this first G20-meeting (totally disconnected from the speed and scope of the unfolding crisis (1)), it is more than likely that the disaster will have to happen for the fundamental problems to be seriously addressed and for the beginning of a reply to be initiated.

    Four key-factors are now pushing the Bretton Woods II (2) system to collapse in the course of the year 2009:

    • Fast weakening of the central players: USA, UK
    • Three visions of the future of global governance will be dividing world’s largest players (United-States, Eurozone, China, Japan, Russia, Brazil) by spring 2009
    • Unbridled speeding-up of the last decade’s (de-)stabilizing processes
    • Increasing number of more and more violent backlashes.


    Here

    It is all a good read.

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  8. Haven't given you much chance lately, Anon with posts althugh the Hitler one was an obvious one to comment on. One on socialism coming up tomorrow.

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  9. Ladies and gents - you didn't happen to notice that the lower photo was Drake Passage and Cape Horn? :)

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  10. The Hitler one.

    Yes indeed. I almost started, but was rather pushed for time at that point. You could almost substitute the name Broon into the story and it would still be accurate.
    Things are moving so rapidly, keeping up is a problem.
    The future looks very bleak: convening entire family shortly.
    One of the members works at a senior level in a bank, and honestly, hasn't a clue what is going on.

    You couldn't make this up!

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  11. Jeez! Unreal those waves are!

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