Hot v Cold

Temperatures have hit record levels in London, Spain, France and parts of Greece, with runways melting, train services being suspended and forest fires igniting. Surely there are no climate sceptics left out there are there? If there are, perhaps a lengthy stay in some hot areas on the globe might help them along. For all your others here is a place for you to rest your weary self. Aren't these watermelon seats in Roma St Parklands just the best ? And I am sure they were a fraction of the price that the Municipality of Nicosia paid for their most uninspiring ovals plunked down in the New Eleftheria Square. A project way over budget and simply not for hot climes. Here is the right connection to the culture of the land. Cooling melons.

The ovals of Eleftheria Square. 

Walking back from the city today there is evidence of warmth and colour creeping back into our Aussie life which has been unusually cold and wet - now I wonder what caused that - no prizes for the right answer. 

Keep cool my British Family and Friends, plant trees my Cypriot family and Friends that the Municipality seem to be intent on chopping down, and wrap up warm my Aussie Family and Friends, La Nina is still with us. 

48th anniversary of the invasion of the island in 1974 - firearms, bombs, incendiary devices, unwanted heat and unwanted warfare. Loss of precious life.