It's Time For Me to Lie Low.

Today (18/5/12) and tomorrow (19/5/12) the Heads of Government/State (HOGS) of the Group of 8 (G8) allegedly largest economies in the World along with the European Union (EU) will be meeting at Camp David, Maryland, USA for the G8 Summit. On Sunday (20/5/12) and Monday (21/5/12) 6 of the 8 will travel to Chicago, US and be joined by others for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit. Meanwhile today the World's Crowned Heads of State (Monarchs) will be assembling in Windsor, UK for the Queen of England's Diamond Jubilee lunch. I have absolutely no idea how to respond to all of these events so major incidents permitting I will be spending the next four days almost glued to the sofa in my front room watching trash TV. In fact if things go well I won't need to go near a computer or cellphone until Sunday at the earliest.

However if I was forced to guess at the agenda for the meetings I would say that the NATO Summit will be dominated by one word; Afghanistan. Delegates will be discussing who'll be leaving when and how the remaining tasks will be divided up and paid for. If there is time they will also discuss the changing situation in the middle-east following the so-called Arab Spring, the overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya and the continuing situation in Syria. This is not because NATO intends to take further military action in the middle-east but because NATO is in the security business and the changes in the middle-east change the security picture.

The G8 Summit will be more complicated because traditionally there is no fixed agenda with the purpose of the Summit being to get all these World leaders in the same place at the same time so they can talk in person - something HOGS rarely get to do. Therefore the main business will be introducing the new arrivals such as Francois Hollande and Mario Monti to the existing inmates. However I'm sure they will find time to discuss the situation in the middle-east, Iran's nuclear program and all gang up on Angela Merkel over the Eurozone specifically the issues of Eurobonds and a "growth" stimulus.


Edited at around 14:40 on 18/5/12 to add: Ah yes sitting glued to the sofa watching trash TV. If only there was a green plant-like substance that could aid with that endeavour. So after going for a full gym session in the Black Lion that's exactly what I've been getting on with before taking a long bath and going to the corner shop to by a newspaper, some peanuts in their shells and two 330ml bottles of Budweiser. I will now be dedicating myself to sitting glued to the sofa in possibly the front room or possibly the Black Lion. After all at least Britain's got a light or they will have once the plane carrying the Olympic flame arrives this evening from Greece following a tense flight.