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Driving in this kind of sunshine can be a bit of a nightmare. Without being able to park in the shade the car is like a furnace and the steering wheel almost too hot to touch.
So we made an earlyish start today and I left the engine going so I could get the air conditioning up and running. Would some Somerset chancer make off with the car as I gathered our stuff together inside? Not this time. But in some Universe out there, surely. The cooling experiment pretty much worked and meant we were on course to get home before midday.
As always life hangs by a thread and your destiny is largely not in your own hands. On the M4 the driver of a horsebox started to change lanes without bothering to look in his mirror or indicate. Luckily I am an awesome driver and am very keen not to see all my family and a horse killed by an idiot and I was able to avoid the collision and warn him with a blast of my horn and he pulled back into this correct lane.
For some of us there is an idiot out there who will one day be responsible for our deaths. Might be quite a lot of us if that idiot is Donald Trump. As much as Sliding Doors and films of its ilk will make us think that decisions we make might change our futures, nearly all of us are far more likely to be affected in some way by the decisions of others.
Knowing my luck there was a famous horse on that vehicle and if we'd all been killed it would be the horse that would get all the headlines.
The me in the Universe who got his car stolen doesn’t know how lucky he was. He avoided the horse suicide bombing of his entire brood.
Sometimes bad luck prevents worse luck. Sometimes you get both. In an infinite Universe everything happens and nothing has any meaning. Just hope you don't get your car nicked or your car crushed by a dying equine in this one.
Anyway it's slightly hard to enjoy all this sunshine, partly because it's much too hot and makes everything unpleasant and sweaty, so you can't even sleep at night, but mainly because having weather like this in May feels like the result of unstoppable global warming and environmental disaster. And it feels like that because that is what it is.
So even though some people might get pleasure from basking in the cancerous rays of a star that is just way too close to us - get back in the night sky with all the other stars, you stupid idiot - anyone with a brain must surely be thinking what is life going to be like for my kids. Or for me if I am unlucky enough to get old. The generation that had the chance to stop this will no doubt be pretty much dead already by the time the chickens come home to roost. Or more likely the chickens begin to spontaneously combust. Not saying that won't be fun to watch and someone will make some good money from self-cooking chickens. But I'd rather live back in the old days where scorching hot days and ladybird invasions were the exception, rather than the rule.
Are we all just hoping some scientist will come up with a solution before it goes too fucking crazy? That's what I am hoping. But if everyone else is hoping that too then why are they being so dismissive of science all the time and ignoring all the amazing things science has done and instead pointing out that the earth is flat and the covid vaccine was the real killer and that all scientists are pricks.
The reaction to the Covid vaccine and it's amazing rapid turn around would have been enough to make me say "Right, fuck you. If that's your reaction to me saving your fucking life then I am not going to do any more science any more. You can do it from now on, with your drinking battery acid or wrestling with snakes or whatever shit you're up to now."
Once again. Apologies to the people and chickens of the future (delete as applicable or if you are around to delete). We really screwed things up for you. But for everyone born between 1946 and 1970, we had a fucking whale of a time ensuring the extinction of the whales (and all other life).
