We Have Been Asked A Few Times,

if there is anything we miss about Thailand,

for myself the answer is yes to one thing, bin collections, in the UK I have been transported back into a Third World country when it comes to rubbish collections, huge different colored bins and plastic boxes blight the outside of homes in every street we walk past, home owners have to sort and move rubbish themselves, but take a developed country for bin collection that we left a few moths ago, Thailand, to set the example of how things should be, 3 collections a week, every week, rubbish is sorted at the depot where the rubbish is taken, the cost?  including street lighting, 40 baht a Month, that is less than .25 pence a week! where has the UK gone wrong? it was not like this when I left 30 or so years ago, so why does every street look like a trash dump now? still the good news is that the rubbish bin above at Frankfurt Main Station has it all worked out!

Fibonacci Numbers,

are a series of numbers,

that follow a pattern, Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages". The name he is commonly called, "Fibonacci", was made up in 1838 by the Franco-Italian historian Guillaume Libri, and this is the start of the sequence,

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...

The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.

The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1) = 2

The 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2), = 3

And the 5 is (2+3), = 5

and so on, easy, so what happens if you put the sequence to music?

you get this, delightful.

We Had Nothing Planned For Today,

so it was a lazy day for us,

in the evening we thought about going to London for the fireworks, but were put of for two reasons, firstly every site we looked at said all of the tickets had been sold out long ago, secondly the last train home left long before the firework show started, and the thought of walking from London was not appealing!, so after our evening meal it was feet up for a few quiz shows, a couple from Poirot, 

and to round the evening off Hoodlum, a gangster film set in the 1930's as three sets of rival gangs clash for the lucrative 'numbers' racket, based loosely on true life characters of the time, it is a film that we somehow missed, but is well worth watching, and with the end of that we were off to bed.

What Is The Most Germ Laden Thing You Can Touch?

the answer may, or may not surprise you,

here is a number of them starting at number 25, a door knob,

at number 20, ATM buttons,

every ones guess at number 18, a toilet seat,

at 13 in the kitchen, a micro wave keypad,

money at number 9,

one that most people forget about at number 4, a shopping cart trolley,

and the worst of them all? your mouth! most of those germs on the playground, in the elevator, and all over your keyboard came from one spot…human mouths, and with millions of bacteria per square inch, over 700 different species call it home, but remember, not all germs are bad, in fact, your body is teeming with “good” bacteria that do everything from help you digest your food to fight off all the bad germs you get from touching the things on this list,

and if you want to see the whole list here it is on video, now go and wash your mouth out!

I Am Guessing,

that many motorists around the world,

 will take great delight,

 in seeing, these smashed and broken speed cameras,

 it appears that some motorists in the Russian city of Sevastopol have decided that enough is enough,

 and are actively targeting the cameras and the solar panels that run them, Sevastopol authorities claim that the capture of these vandals is now inevitable, but with 16 destroyed speed cameras reported so far, police has yet to arrest any suspects, according to representatives of Safe Roads LLC, the company responsible for the maintenance of the speed cameras, the damage has already amounted to tens of millions of Russian roubles, as a single camera costs between 1 and 2 million roubles ($15,000 – $30,000),

 the cameras are all insured, and because the damage is already very high, and here is a sobering thought, the insurance company is also actively looking for those responsible so it can sue them and their families for financial compensation, if they can’t afford to pay, all their property will be confiscated, and the culprits will serve jail time,

the vandal’s motives are yet unknown, but there is a strong chance that they consider themselves vigilantes doing other motorists a favour, however, according to Andrei Tomilin, Director of Safe Roads Sevastopol, that is not the case, “The fact is that under the terms of the concession, the Sevastopol government will compensate us for the operational costs of servicing the video imaging system. As a result, the people themselves – including those who destroyed the cameras – will pay for their damage with their taxes. That is the protocol, no matter how negative it looks, ” Tomilin told ForPost and Primechaniya.ru, so destroying speed cameras is not the way to go.

When I Think,

of night time long exposure photography,

 I always think of the subject being stars, or say fireworks,

 but there are other sources of light,

 that can be captured in the night sky,

 the trails left by aeroplanes,

 as they land and take off,

 and that is what this photographer, 

  Pete Mauney did, his photographs capture the streaks of light that are seen as the landing lights of aircraft come in to land or take off blaze across the night sky, using a long exposure, he also uses a flash gun to expose ground based subjects and position himself above calm environments, Mauney will have an upcoming solo exhibition at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts (Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild) in Woodstock, New York from July 5, 2019 to August 18, 2019, You can see more of Mauney’s images, of both flying planes and darting insects, on his website and Instagram, I have to admit I had never thought of using a long exposure to photograph aircraft trails, what a neat idea.

Keeping to A Photograph Theme,

this time in miniature,

 and in the cold,

 it sounds simple to create these magical winter globes, the blurb says and I quote, 'a simple mixture of corn syrup, dish detergent, and water creates magical winter snow globes when blown into bubbles on snow', I think there is a little more to it than that!

 the apparently straightforward yet delicate DIY project is dramatically documented by Ontario-based nature photographer Don Komarechka in his short film “Winter’s Magic.” 

Komarechka’s video features the best clips from over 400 takes that were originally shot for the BBC’s Forces of Nature documentary series,

the artist works in macro, landscape, and nature photography, He also teaches workshops, and sells prints of his work, from snowflakes to spiders, on his website, for the curious, Komarechka explains the process and the technical aspects of the project on YouTube, when you go to the link click the SHOW MORE button, fascinating.