Summertime....
- 2 May 07, 01:35 PM
΅and the living is easy. Indeed I am bringing this blog to you straight from my very sunny back garden. It΅―s just like Gershwin said, everything is easier when the sun shines, the sky is blue and you can enjoy some quality outdoor time. Of course what΅―s really interesting is the fact that it isn΅―t, technically speaking, actually summer yet ¨C it΅―s spring. So, there are two ways we can go with this. It΅―s either a portent of a magnificent couple of months ahead ¨C the glass half full forecast ¨C or, as the begrudgers are fond of saying ΅°aye well, make the most of it now because this is probably all the summer you΅―ll get.΅±
Naturally, I take the former view and as supporting evidence I would ask you to travel far back into your memory, to those wonderful summers of the mid to late seventies when I was at school. It was always like this from exam time, which is now, right through the holidays. You might say it΅―s my imagination, or the gloss of nostalgia, but can I tell you I have both the photographs and the lines to show for it. Yes, those were the days when you΅―d lie out from first thing in the morning baking in baby oil with only Radio I for company ¨C oh the ΅®Our Tunes΅― I enjoyed courtesy of Simon Bates!
Naturally all that was long before we were so aware of the links between sunbathing and skin cancer - and believe me nobody told me about the wrinkle thing or I would have stayed pale and interesting. Of course now it΅―s too late and the damage is done I never leave the house without my factor 15 on my bake and anyway, I can΅―t be bothered to lie in the sun any more ¨C life is too short and it΅―s too boring.
One thing that is interesting is that it seems the fates above are being very kind to the smokers ¨C or are they. You might think it΅―s better than being huddled in some doorway or freezing to death in the street to be enjoying glorious weather now the smoking ban has become a reality. But just think of this. If you stand in the sun AND smoke you΅―re going to end up looking like Dot Cotton .....and you΅―ll never see her on an ad for Ambre Solaire.
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