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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Weather Here in the not-really-frozen-but-it-gets-pretty-cold-in-the-winter north, we approach the summer solstice with the rest of the world. And once again I wonder, as I do every year, why June is not the warmest month. I can forgive the weather lagging behind events a little, but not even July manages to catch up with the sun. August gets the honour as the sizzling month. And, after August, we begin the downhill slope to winter. Why does it always seem that the downhill side of the hill always seems steeper and therefore faster than the uphill trip? Doesn’t seem fair, really. I mean, spring is a nebulous thing and often lasts for months, teasing and tempting with occasional brighter spells, only to fall back into old habits of rain and coolth. And summer starts like an ancient car with one cylinder not working and a near-flat battery. Don’t get me wrong - I like weather. There is nothing more exciting than a decent thunderstorm, and a blazing hot day in a desert somewhere is great when viewed from the comfort of an air conditioned room. But I do have questions about the weather not living up to its reputation. There must have been a time when weather behaved much more reliably than it does now. The countless medieval rhymes and sayings about how each month will be is evidence enough of that. Perhaps we ought to chant more often the old nursery rhymes about the weather each month will bring. The power of positive thinking and all that. Word count: 254 |
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