Give me sunshine
It is pleasantly warm out.
It might even be a bit warmer tomorrow. That’s nice.
To listen to the meeja over the last few days though you’d swear some catastrophic event is about to happen on a par with an asteroid hitting the planet. They keep waffling on about deadly heatwaves and scorching weather. They are entreating us all to “stay safe” and follow their instructions on how to survive this imminent “severe weather event”. The UK has issued its first ever Red Alert, but seeing as the alert system was only planned last year, then the “first ever” looses some of its impact?
If you have to rely on the gubmint to find out how to live with warm weather then, to be honest, I don’t think you should be let out at all, as obviously you’re a danger to yourself and everyone around you.
I have actually experienced sunshine before. I have suffered from sunburn as a kid and on one memorable occasion I suffered from heatstroke [while picking strawberries in Cambridge in the middle of a heatwave]. That’s an experience I do not want to repeat. I have indeed experienced temperatures greater than those expected in Ireland [and the UK] while on holiday in France. I didn’t die over there so it’s reasonable to assume I won’t die here. Well, not from a bit of sun anyway.
I confess to having a little chuckle at some of the articles. They suggest that if I’m thirsty I should drink water. I never would have thought of that so I’m so glad they told me. They tell me to open windows and doors. Wow! But I think my biggest chuckle came from a picture on the BBC News site –
Okay, the theory is fine but I can’t see it having much impact in practice. I think I would avoid travelling by rail in the UK over the next couple of days anyway. if the rails are that dodgy.
Incidentally, they are predicting we might have the hottest day on record here in Ireland. This is implied as proof of Warble Gloaming. So when was the record set? Last year? A few years ago? No.
Kilkenny Castle on June 26, 1887.
So they had Warble Gloaming back then too?
I am calling bulldust on that picture.
Man not wearing mask and full face shield.
Also there only two supervisors, blue hard hats in open countryside. Maybe hidden it is very heavy there, watching him work.
I notice the supervisors are standing well back in case he spontaneously combusts?
I was at school during the long hot summer of 76, our school was so hot they took all the kids outside onto the grass and had the lessons outside.
Now the schools are advising the parents not to dress their kids in jumpers and coats?????
Where did it all go so wrong?
Ps. A back of a fag packet calculation shows that temperature data (as used for temperature trends to show warble gloaming) has been kept for 3.30178296 Ã 10-6% of the life of this planet.
So saying this is the hottest it’s ever been is a little presumptuous I think!
Didn’t I read somewhere recently of a school which decided boys could not wear short trousers in hot weather but were allowed wear skirts? The world gets weirder by the minute.
Mark my words GD, come winter and you’ll be hearing advice of a completely different nature as everybody starves and freezes. I suppose they’ll be telling you then to wear a dozen coats and light yourself on fire – that’s if you can afford the matches.
Looks like whitewash to me. Sorry, I meant a whitewash.
Just visit go ogle – the font of all human wisdom – and type in “summer 1540”.
As I type – using my last dying breath – whoever finds my desiccated corpse among the dunes of the skeleton coast that this part of Sussex is rapidly becoming, I bequeath what few of my worldly possessions that may still be found among the shifting sands.
Look after my collection of shrunken heads.
We brought it on ourselves. If only we had listened to Klaus Schwab. If only we had heeded his well thought out humane plans for depopulation. If only his programme of eugenics had come to fruition. How happy we would have been in the agrarian paradise, owning nothing and knowing nothing except that he was our better.
Damn! I’m rambling. Must be getting dehydrated or something. Good job Klaus’s mini-me’s are around to tell me to take a drink (they can’t tell me to come in out of the rain I suppose)
Definitely you need a drink. I suggest whiskey. However alcohol dehydrates so you’ll need to drink a lot of it.
Impeccable logic sir. Worthy of Spock himself!
I’ll definitely be going all Dick Turpin on the next camel train!