First of all thanks for mentioning boxwood. Looked it up. Been green fingered all my life and always loved gardening but mostly edible stuff and didn’t even know what that was! Good to learn something new even if so basic you feel really dumb.

My take on incentive for Ukraine colour revolution was massive increase in Nat gas production in USA from unconventional resource boom in conjunction with development and improvement of LNG technology. The highest cost market for Nat gas is Europe. The main constraints to making USA LNG a viable option is control or removal of Russian Nat gas (Ukraine pass through pipelines and nordstream) and the Qatari and Iranian Nat gas flowing from south pars through the planned pipeline through Syria. Interestingly it was only 2 weeks prior to the uprising there, that the Syrian govt had decided a pipeline route that was more in Iranian interest than Qatar. All random little events am sure.

I didn’t touch grass or boxwood but went for a walk on the beach followed by a little road though the jungle. Very grounding but there really are vast numbers of ants out right now. Have to walk rather fast to avoid them climbing up yer legs!