If you happen to be in Edinburgh

These are some very funny and nice people, it'd be well worth a look at:

Measureless Liars present The Gyntish Self at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,

Measureless Liars have taken Ibsens Peer Gynt and moulded their own contemporary version using a team of writers to boil the story down to its essence and retell it in a weird and wonderful Scottish setting.

17th - 28th August @ 5.35pm (55mins). Hill Street Theatre (Venue 41) 19 Hill Street.

For tickets and information visit http://www.measurelessliars.co.uk or call the Box Office on 0131 226 6522

Measureless Liars are a Glasgow based company who have been producing playfully subversive new writing theatre since 2003.

We are an Uncle

Young Finlay Middleton

And the same with his Parents

What a good idea

Have a look at this link sign their pettition and improve everyone's life. www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk

African Studies in Japanese rhyme

Here are my revision notes condensed into (bad) Haiku and below them my flat mates attempts. They are about economics can't you tell?

Aid:

Paris club iffies

Smell the coffee bean no growing trend to be seen

Commodities bah!

Environment demography and the resource base:

The Brown earth looks pretty dead

Too many folks, stats lye

Malthus he was wrong to frown

HIV/AIDS

Pre natal testing

Urban bias no one knows

Worse who really cares?

NGOs

Good intentions

But rich kids feeding poor ones

Hi Dependency

Famine:

Just how many must wilt

Before you can call it one

Depends who you are

Education:

Recover your cost

Pay for new green shorts and tie

Oops no cash for food

And here are the ones Alex made:

Aid

Too much or more--

Easterly versus Sach-s

For Africa to bloom?

Trade

Liberalize trade

Sugar and fresh cut flowers

Markets to succeed.

Environment, Demography and the Resources

Too many new kids

Crowding eating using

There’s no room to grow

People care, no?

Their food, their trees, their land

Plant more everyday.

HIV/AIDS

How can you measure?

Birth and growth and life and death

We simply cannot know.

NGOs

Many, like grass on field

Or busy carpenter ants

Their work is for who?

Famine

Not enough to eat?

Rice and potatoes won’t do

Enough but not good.

Education

Instead of pregnant

Girls to schools will help nation

Boys disappointed.

Ooooooh look at that....

Wrong way round I know. Its a picture of a temple with nice red leaves... ahhh

This is from the Gion festival closing ceremony - its a moving shrine and it gets danced!

This is a burning 'dai' it means big. And it was very!

Pictures

Finnaly I am able to put some pictures on the blog again, when I am bored the next few days I will post my Japan snaps... sorry its a little late. Now this was a fun evening the chap rescued us because we were drinking on the grave of a very important somebody... then took us to his house!

I remeber when it all used to be pink.

I got this from Jenny I think I have more red than her... Does it count if you drive through somewhere? Or if you only spent a few hours there? I decided no...



create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

I was thinking if you are competative and want more red than your friends you should just visit Canada, Russia, China, Brazil, Australia and the US (Maybe Sudan or the Congo for Balance too)- it'd look much more impressive than 22 little ones in Europe.