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…. very classy! Maybe not

As I’m having a quiet weekend alone here in Melbourne, I figured I’d head off to the cinema. There I saw Children of Men (based on the book of the same name).
I highly recommend!! A somewhat depressing film, but it’s very good. Normally, I don’t like Clive Owen (the main actor)… his dull, laid back acting style just winds me up. Yet, in this film, it seemed to be a good match.

While I was there, also managed to see a trailer for this film (I guess it’s only now coming out in Australia). Looks pretty good for a low-budget horror flick.

More Travels

Hurrrumph
Looks like I’m going to exceed by ‘Carbon Allowance’ a hell of a lot more again before I get back to the UK. As part of the hand-over process I need to get down to Australia for two weeks. Hmm, I suppose at least I’m doing it now, rather than right before the move back.

In the News

Reading through the news day, I must admit I had a chuckle at this story about someone who worked a total of 8 days in 5 years!!. I can’t believe it has taken them this long though to work out what to do next.

In other news… oiiii, you lot in the UK. Turn off your electrical stuff!!. Then you read this news, and things aren’t so great. It was also interesting to see that the Aussies (well, the government) are now maybe starting to things a bit seriously when it comes to Global Warming. I guess the drought out there has got them thinking a bit.

Weekend Travels

On Saturday, Yuko and I headed over to her folks place. We were basically offloading Yuko’s old computer, scanner and laptop on them. Spent a bit of time setting up a webcam, and Skype for them, to make things cheaper if they want to speak to us while we are in the UK. Also meant it was a good chance to have some food and booze.
On Sunday, we headed down to Misakiguchi (御崎口) in the Miura Peninsula (三浦半島). The place is basically a fishing town, but they had a まぐろ (Maguro – Tuna) festival on. Of course, everyone descended on this town, and the traffic system just collapsed. We got stuck on a bus for ages, and ended up getting off and walking back to the train station.
On the way, and way back, we were all confused why the hell one of the train stations was called “YRP Nobi”. I mean, Nobi was written in Japanese, but what the hell were those Western Characters doing there in the place name. Turns out it means “Yokosuka Research Park”. There you go, learn something everyday. Was amusing though, as Yuko’s parents assumed that I would know what it meant… obviously being the foreigner

… that they think all of us don’t know?

Are they getting ready to prepare us for P.O. … but trying to maintain the image of “business as normal”.

Or am I being paranoid again

EDIT: Hmmm, so more news stories:

The EU is obviously concerned about the Russians not giving us gas and/or bullying us around using gas as a political bargining tool. Some related news here too.
Now, this story about OPEC cutting production was interesting. Not long ago, OPEC were stating that they were hoping that they could get the price of oil back down to $35 or so for a barrel, after it had shot up to the $78 mark. As we’ve now seen recently, the price has dropped to around about $60. So the question is… are OPEC just been greedy bastards, and not wanting to drop the price below $55 just to scoop off those profits…. or is it because they can’t INCREASE or MAINTAIN production and the whole ‘cut production to prop up the prices’ is just a little story to tell the community not to give the real game away Hmmm, you decide. Me, I think it’s a bit of both.