It's cold, but the sun is out

My thought is "Get used to it Geoff". This is the highly likely weather of the future in years to come. Global Warming - that most now accept exists - is a very real scientific explanation:

Millions of gallons of cold water from melting ice at the North Pole being released near Greenland. This then interferes with the Gulf Stream which keeps the UK unusually warm for our Latitude (compare Alaska). Disrupt the flow of the stream and we get the weather that would be normally at our Latitude.

Thus Global Warming ( which has far more acceptance since this blog was started ) doesn't have the effect of making the UK warmer.

Thus we need to brace ourselves for yet another hardship on top of all the others that we already have. This is particularly difficult to accept for younger people who have lived in a world where the standard of living has improved year by year. Now we have to adjust that our way of lives just have to get 'worse' and worse in the future.

Those of us that lived during the last war can remember that although it was grim it was enjoyable as well. Yes, ice cold bedrooms, now running hot water, rationing so few food treats like oranges, lamb steaks, eggs etc. Little choice in clothes, no fancy gadgets like television, computers, cameras, mobile phones, fancy sound playing equipment yet in spite of this, life was fun and very enjoyable.

So we need to have a change of attitude and look around for the things that are great and give us something wonderful to live for. One of these for me is the making of music, something they even managed to enjoy in the concentration camps in the war - along with self created theatre and comedy. Even today we read about those in South America who scavenge the rubbish to make musical instruments to play superb music in their own orchestras. Wow.


 I can't help crying as I type this, having just reminded myself of these incredible young people and what their indomitable spirits have enabled them to achieved.
If they can do it, then so can we in Ulverston - or are we made of more submissive material? Piggy's exploits is my way of doing something similar and yes it's tough but then I have the advantage of having lived in 'hard times' as a refugee in wartime. Most people don't have this privilege.