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 – 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 – the glass half full forecast – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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