Global Cooling - overview

Global Cooling is a BLOG that takes a light hearted (and hopefully rational) look at more or less anything. That means local issues, national and international issues are part of my remit but not religion. I don’t do religion like I don’t do ironing (can anyone ever remember seeing Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson or John Wayne ironing anything?).

The author is a former angry young man who was going to change the world, make his mark and be ‘everyone’s favourite good guy’. It never happened because all the while the angry young man was yelling ‘This is ridiculous!’ or ‘I’m going down there right now to tell that bunch of mindless jerks exactly what I think about them’ the meter was running and he was getting older (and fatter).

It’s a fact: angry young men drive too fast and are likely to kill themselves at the wheel (think James Dean) and middle aged blokes who see them are likely to kill themselves by shouting at them and getting generally stressed out (One coronary, coming up! Now was that with or without fries?)

Remember how your aged relations always seemed to love quoting proverbs? What used to get me was when my grandfather used to say ‘a rolling stone gathers no moss’. It took me years to figure that he wasn’t making some reference to Mick Jagger and that moss wasn’t an illegal substance (like grass). One swallow doesn’t make a Summer BUT here in sunny Sunderland, it is the first year that I’ve actually seen a swallow! And it HAS been quite a good Summer.

Thought for the day: is there some sort of secret sofa fetish about which I know nothing? All the ads on the TV seem to be for sofas! Am I missing something? So, artex your X box and pickle your iPod – get a sofa instead!