As our stop-start summer continues (here’s a stop-start example: yesterday was fine and warm, clear blue sky, my washing dried super-fast in the garden, we set off for an evening stroll after dinner and were rained on!) fashionistas declare that short shorts are the latest thing for men. Shorts for men seem to have been ‘the thing’ for the last year or so. Even on cold wet January days you would see men, of all ages, not just young ones, striding out in their shorts - long shorts that is. Now, if anything looks odder than knee-length shorts and bare legs paired with a puffer jacket, wooly hat and scarf and gloves, it’s very short shorts with quite a formal jacket. But, hey, that’s just my opinion.
When we were kids, back in the 1950s and well into the 1960s boys wore short trousers until they the end of third year secondary school, now called year nine. Long trousers were a sign of growing up. At the girls’s grammar school I attended similar rules applied: until the end of the third year girls wore green gymslips, not specifically for PE lessons but a sort of regulation pinafore dress. Only after that could you progress to wearing a green skirt with your shite blouse and green tie. That was all very well for the skinny youngsters but severely embarrassing for larger boys and girls! Now even small babies of both genders wear jeans and jogging trousers. Maybe it’s not having been forced to expose their knees to winter’s harshness in heir early childhood that makes men want to wear shorts nowadays. Or maybe it’s just a desire to look very macho!
Anyway, it seems that short shorts, barely more than boxer shorts, are the fashion thing of the day. And I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that some of these short shorts are very expensive. With that in mind, here’s a link to an article about ‘sliders’, some of which look like the kind of flipflops you might wear poolside. Amazingly, some people pay more than £600 for a pair of such things.
I read this morning that nearly two in every five phones stolen in Europe are taken in the UK, according to data collated an insurance firm. It crosses my mind that one reason might be the habit of carrying your phone in the back pocket of your jeans, surely a prime target, an open invitation to a nippy thief to take it.
Last night we watched the documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”, to film the BBC refused to broadcast. Everyone should watch it, to remind themselves, or simply to inform themselves, of the systematic destruction of a working health service. The bravery of those health workers is astounding. And now it seems that doctors and nurses still managing to work in Gaza have the added problem of starvation; many of them go to work as hungry as the people they are treating.
And here’s a link to an article about another aspect of the Gaza problem: Gaza students with scholarships to study in the UK who are unable to begin their studies for lack of a visa. Why are they not being fast-tracked through the procedures?
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Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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