Year-end diary. The wide mouthed frog and other stories …

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Scroll right down to the end to find the parable of the wide mouthed frog. Here goes:

 

Happier times before the pigs took over the farm and farting cows get blamed for global warming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now it’s certain Kamala Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s as a high school student. Campaigning Trump went into McD mode to serve fries, as they call chips in America.

As they say in a cyber-speak abbreviations these days: WTF, what the fuck, 1620 must have been a terrible year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Has anything really changed in the passing of time since Covid and before?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The finance minister after the lights went out in the new US$ 200 million Chinese-built parliament when he was delivering his 2025 budget speech. It was seen as an unprecedented security breach at the hitherto impregnable building as the president was hurried out by bodyguards and a few opposition members cried; Ha,ha, the true state of the nation, hey! And this is how to wash your hair when there’s neither running water in the taps nor electricity available. (20 litre jerry can – chigubu – strapped onto your back.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn’t that Megan Markle’s semi-topless nipple at the beach? David Livingstone, of course was the first white tourist at Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders he named after Queen Victoria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In an erratic southern hemisphere rainy season so far this year, this is what happens when illegal buildings go up on “wetlands,” the natural catchment of rain and moisture feeding rivers and dams. And this is when when road drains are not cleared properly of fallen leaves, fast food containers and general rubbish.

In 2025:.Beware of fake news and AI. Take smaller steps to get there. Be careful on the roads.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quotable quotes

Westerners think we ride to work on elephants. That’s ridiculous. We don’t have jobs.

Please boycott US banknotes, the $1, not the $10 as he wasn’t one of them, but the $20, $50 and $100 depict slave owners on them. Please send them to me and I will see to it that they are disposed of properly. Thank you.

Finally, here’s the annual but eternal frog story. It’s all about the difficulties of finding trust, past and in the future.

Scorpion didn’t like wide-mouthed frogs who always pursed their lips tight shut when scorpion was around. Scorpion can’t swim and asks frog to take him across the river to escape a ravaging.bush fire. How do I know you won’t sting me? Never, you are saving my life!  Almost across, scorpion stings frog. Why? Because that’s what I do, I sting all the time, I can’t help it, I can’t help myself. said scorpion.

Here’s a much nicer view of the wide-mouthed frog in this December’s New Yorker magazine.