Answer to the bullish market object  in Times Square and its creator. We dont want to be insular but why are we constantly presented with stuff from the USA?  News. Sure, Texas had a catastrophy, they have my sympathy.

Media is extreme, one eyed, a dominator, presents pressured fraught celebs in sad difficulties and  spreads their sick disease - little things like that!

Who wants to be a colony of the failing super powers? As their physical might falters their media and power to brain wash and reap piles of cash grows and engulfs us all.

More power to those who take media to task. Give them heaps! Fight the good fight one algorithm after another. One dollar after another.

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Thousand and one nights eatery, evoking fantasy, a tale quite often seen in beautifully illustrated editions and it would have been crass not to choose this coffee.

Hours later, still flaring......

As distinct from the masts, the furtherest distant smoke stack is seen burning fossil fuel. Good grief. Flaring.  All day.  Long Island Point  area has petroleum and LPG industry and a steel works.

What happens on the hour? Waltzing Matilda in naive style is a charming sight and sound.

central

....painted ship upon a painted ocean....

  The Ancient Mariner was a school set text  what seems like about a hundred years ago.

  The spectre is covid. We are incredibily fortunate that covid is 'at bay'.

summer evening

sunset

After a day of maximum heat a pretty sunset was some consolation.

A town in a rare time warp.  The shops are not modernised. All is congruent. And one of the smallest buildings you would ever find.