Friday, July 24, 2009

Cheer up

Whichever genius coined the phrase Barbecue Summer deserves to win this years Michael Fish Hurricane Memorial Award for weather forecasting

The authorities usually fear a long hot summer but all this rain is beginning to get everybody really down. Small vicissitudes, normally taken in ones stride, cause unreasonable vexation. Still, coming on top of recession & flu, I guess the reaction is mainly just a depressed What else can you expect? rather than an explosion of anger

When the sun does shine again & my mood improves I am going to give up oxygen for my healths sake

Of the hazards of being alive, Dr Mark Porter wrote that “The onslaught comes from all directions — everything from sunlight to tobacco smoke — but the main villain is oxygen. We need it to create energy, but in the same way that it turns a newspaper yellow and iron rusty, it also eats away at our structure.”

Which neatly sums up the paradox of life, I guess


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