I was all set on being miserable again today when a lovely surprise gift arrived un-looked-for in the early morning post:
Christmas in the air!
That made me smile, click my heels, and feel good about the world all over again. Ain’t it grand the way friends can make you smile?
It’s been a thaw-out day in the close, too, with streams of water running off into the drains and long streaks of nasty snowy stuff growing smaller and smaller by the hour. It’s dark now but a peer through the window shows road and pavement that’s more asphalt than icy snow. I hope our good fortune is being copied all over the Kingdom, and further afield, too. My only concern now is that is going to happen to all that rock salt?
I did hear today that well-respected scientific opinion is leaning towards the view that this cold turn is the first of many North Atlantic Oscillation effects, bringing us cold winters and cooler summers for the next two or three decades, postponing the dire effects of global warming for at least the same period. Good. I fully expect to be dead and gone by then, or at the very least a quiet little old man smiling harmlessly in a corner, and I am quite content to leave the whole question to younger and wiser heads. I shall continue to work at reducing my footprint on the environment but more than that I cannot do. I never have been too keen on trusting those who create a problem with the task of its resolution.
