There was fog this morning when I walked to the market in Uppermill. The market, by the way, was still sadly depleted. Jenny Biscuit was still not around. Maybe the weather put her off. By lunchtime the fog had lifted and the day was brighter, although still hardly what you would call sunny! Later in the afternoon, however, the sun came out and the sky was blue!
A Facebook friend in Australia described driving around trying to find a vantage spot from which to view the Wolf Moon. She didn’t manage to see anything except silver clouds! Much the same here! She had a small panic between two stopping places, fearing she had lost her mobile phone. She found it on the roof of her car, where she had placed it when she stopped the first time and failed to take a photo. Amazingly it did not slide off!
I was reminded of a time, possibly as long as 50 years ago, when we were driving home from work and realised that other drivers were waving and pointing at us. Eventually we stopped to examine the car, just to see of there was anything obviously wrong, something a relatively new driver might not notice. On the soft top of our red Citroën 2CV was Phil’s briefcase, placed there as he put other things in the car and forgotten about. Fun and games!
I read an article about e-bikes, specifically about the rental bikes that don’t need to be returned to a base but can just be left on the pavement until someone else decides to pick them up and ride away on them. It wasn’t a particularly great article but it had an interesting quote about cycling for pleasure: “It just wipes your brain. Like an Etch A Sketch, all the bad stuff goes away.”
Maybe everyone should take up some sort of exercise for pleasure!
Do modern children still play with the Etch-a-Sketch? I wonder. Our two youngest grandchildren have had something similar, a sort of pad on which you could draw a picture and easily erase it to begin again, but not nearly so efficient as the Etch-a-Sketch. Toys that don’t need batteries and don’t need recharging! Wonderful stuff!
I read that a US climate-change-denying lobby group, Heartland, has set up a branch in the UK, with its opening attended by Liz Truss and Nigel Farage. Do they really not believe in climate change or is this another bandwagon to jump onto to promote their own agendas? Hard to say!
Climate change, however, continues to wreak havoc all over the world, as Californians can bear witness. We all have contributed to climate change as we have benefitted from the various technological and industrial advances that have made life easier. Most of us are trying to compensate for that now - recycling, changing our habits and so on. Some of the biggest creators of climate change havoc, though, actively oppose moves that might make them accept responsibility:
“ In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters.
Fossil-fuel industry lobbying in California spiked to record levels during the 2023-24 legislative session, and the polluter pay bill was among the most targeted pieces of legislation, a Guardian review of state lobby filings found.”
It’s amazing what money can do!
Life goes on, stay safe and well, everyone!
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