After our trip to sunny Margate, I found an article on that bastion of truth, the BBC website, stating that global warming could make us live longer (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7240463.stm). Bearing in mind how many people in the world have a life expectancy of less than 40, I think it's our duty to warm the globe as much as possible. With that in mind, and in the interests of stimulating the depressed British economy, I will tomorrow be spending money I don't have on a super-polluting 4x4, for the good of the world. Possibly.
I have in fact been rather reassured to find the past two mornings were freezing cold and foggy into the bargain, just like a proper winter. Not that we've had any proper snow (that persists for more than a couple of days) for about a decade. I'm sure it didn't used to be like that when I was a kid.
But there was a lovely jumpers-for-goalposts moment on my way home from work. I was passed by three lads on bikes, one of whom was towing a mate in a trailer made from the top half of a shopping trolley with pram wheels attached. I thought teenagers these days were far too busy putting on eye-liner, smashing up bus shelters and hanging around phone boxes with bottles of cheap cider, to be so creative. It fills me with hope that somewhere out there may be the next Brunel. Although I'd be willing to bet that Mr B didn't start by sticking wheels to something stolen from a supermarket.
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