Keep Your Diaries Clear

The G20 schedule starts this November 15 in Brisbane Australia. Brisbane is a fairly tame place by comparison with its dark side – Surfer’s Paradise, about forty minutes drive away by fast limo.

I just saw a local Australian group up here in Surfer’s called Say Lou Lou - which is mainly a duo of singers consisting of twin sisters.

Now the public is banned from being anywhere near the G20 world leaders when they turn up on the 15th and 16^th for the summit conference.

Of course you wouldn’t consider Jack Nicholson just another member of the public, although he’s not coming as far as I know.

Jack Nicholson, Mr. Putin President of Russia,

and Peta Wilson

A whole clear month before the G20 summit starts is the Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Now in recent past passages I have told you about people like Sir Alex Allan and how he managed to melt into the social scene here far far away from London City life – but you’d be well aware that if I carried on at the time that mischief was afoot no one would have even believed there actually was even such a person despite the fact that he had already been the High Commissioner here for several years and was the next door neighbour of the then Western Australia State Premier Geoff Gallop. Gallop is a close personal friend of Tony Blair.

Of course he, Allan, was no ‘just the High Commissioner’ for gawdsakes – this man is one of the world’s brightest sparks when it comes to computers and internet systems technology. Allan was moonlighting, if that is the correct terminology about it, while he was doing his other, overt day job during the day, presumably.

And so we now have Julie Bishop, and Tony Abbott, selectively either about to be hosting the President of Russia, or not, as the case will turn out to be on or around the 15^th of November, which is, as I say, one whole clear month after the Formula 1 race in Sochi.

Say Lou Lou - one of them, Live.

Mr. Putin, though, chooses his bedfellows wisely, as you can see. That is, if you see with the same eyes as I do. Which eyes are: For Your Eyes Only.

Now look, let your own thoughts run a bit wild here... I’ll give you the bits and pieces so that you can join the dots without accusing me of making stuff up were I to explicitly say it all.

·         S-Class Mercedes special vehicles for the world leaders.

·         Australian government does not like Mr. Putin

·         Mr. Putin is very charming

·         MI6 is here – has been for a while

ET cetera et cetera et cetera.