*Firstly apologies for the radio silence on this blog for the last week. I spent most of it planning for or standing in city centres waving placards around. All to preserve democracy you understand.
You hear a lot of stupid things on the TV news lately, but one that really got up my nose last week was when one of the presenters said something along the lines of "I love this time of year, autumn".
No, no, no, NO!
This is not autumn!
Autumn - this week apparently.
Autumn doesn't start the first week of September, it starts at the end of the month. What next? If we have a sunny day this week, will the proclaim it an Indian summer?! Of course, the conspiracy theorist in me can't help but think that this kind of comment, along with them now starting the football season in the middle of August is all some plan to condition us into thinking that summer ends much earlier, so they don't have to acknowledge the impact climate change has upon our seasons and weather. Pretty soon the summer months will be classified as May (when we seem to experience some of our hottest weather these days) to July, whilst autumn will commence sometime in mid August and last until October 1st when they'll announce that winter is upon us and shan't give up its icy grip until March. Spring will be approximately last for a fortnight in April. There, that'll keep the climate change deniers and governments of the world happy won't it?
But I guess the truth is that presenters of live TV often say stupid things just to fill the time. For that person, here's a suitable track...
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I hear what you say, Mark, and fully take it on board; and yet, as I sit here typing this, I'm seriously considering either putting another layer on or - wait for it - firing up the heating.
ReplyDeletehehe, oh aye don't get me wrong, it is ghastly today, but it's still not autumn. Unseasonal weather doesn't mean we change the season!
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