There’s nothing like some rubbish weather for making you
feel your age
I was alright for the first three scaffold ladders
yesterday, despite the wind, rain and low temperature. For the next five I
pulled the sleeves of my fleece down over my hands. Scaffolders haven’t come up
with heated ladder rungs, yet. After the roof I went back to the top floor, did
some undignified and inelegant clambering, and took the lift down.
The climate change deniers…
…who should be banged up in jail with the holocaust deniers,
should monitor the weather reports for the number of times they hear the words:
“…since records began…
And:
“…since (insert year, in the distant past)…”
We’re in the coldest Spring (I remember that bit) since the
stone age (actually I think it was in the seventies but I wasn’t really paying
attention, so rather than guess, I made something up).
A vicious spiral
The cold means taking more stuff to cricket. Taking the
definition of cricket as not a sport, more organised loafing, we should by now
be loafing about in shirts and whites. Instead, I’m taking a couple of
undershirts (swapping to a dry one at half time tea), shirt, sleeveless
jumper, and jumper. This extra load, on top of the other stuff, means more
carbon footprint due to the increased weight in the cars, exacerbating the
problem that is the root cause.
That other stuff in the kit bag
My baggage has increased with age. Not so long ago, it
seems, it was a pair of boots, laces tied, hanging over the handlebars of my
pushbike. Then shinpads became compulsory, then…then…and then…
…now I’m at the age where when the annual tidy up takes
place (tip bag upside down, carefully replace half the stuff in a sensible,
rational, neat and tidy fashion, have a “life’s too short for this” (actually a
FTS[1])
moment, stuff the rest in any old how) it becomes clear just how much ‘sports
kit’ actually is ‘medical supplies’.
I’m not yet as bad as a veteran football player we nicknamed
Robocop.
[1] I’ve
promised BLISS no swearing. Well, no swearing on here, obviously. Google. Urban
Dictionary. Answer number two.
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