Expectations Scuppered 🌿☠️🌿

Catching a couple of hours respite in a local Rhodes Town Cafe I am struck by my surroundings. So I did it! Before a hectic remainder of the Choirs busy years concert schedule I've taken a spontaneous holiday in Greece.

Something has slipped. From the Kim Wilde 'You Just Keep Me Hanging on' playing overhead to the 36 degrees and 99% humidity. My lil' artistic brain is overheating, plus I don't feel like being exported back into polka dots and 80s bubble skirts, today. Efcharistò.

Stray animals have taken over; there's a multitude of the furry beings, kittens, cats and mangy looking dogs. Locals have concocted bizarre looking contraptions to try and deal with the 'poo' problem in pot plants. Plastic mesh and spiky wooden things, sticks sticking up out of the soil. None of it seems to be working to deter the detritus. Freshly laid feces for your touristic pleasure.

I wouldn't normally pull focus to these things, because 'tourism is as tourism does'...however in the Pacific, in Fiji for example they've gone to some lengths, local councils and even government have taken the steps to eliminate the problem.

"Unnecessary Anthropomorphism" lets call it for now. It reflects a general malaise in society, a society in crisis; the need for 'fluffy things' to appear as our 'ego appendages'. A bit like a skin disease, disguised, undisclosed for fear of opening the flood gates of worse climate change problems spilling out. But it's here, climate change and dog poo and the endless watching people scoop it up into little plastic bags that go WHERE? Hugh Fernley Whittingstall, might answer.

I must concede Climate Change has arrived. Since arriving home to the UK to avoid extreme Pacific weather, in the last 3 years I'm seen this bi-polar pattern emerge in England. From snow freeze through to sudden wacky heat waves in London.

The Israeli Volleyball girls on the TV in the corner have the right idea. Keep playing. So keep speaking my thoughts,  even when they jerk and jagger in these directions.... in the hope that the world listens.