Day 76: Over and out

Day 15: Silver linings

And no, the title does not refer to my emerging roots. Yet.

Rather, I fear I may have given the impression that in my opinion things aren’t necessarily all sunshine and roses, so I thought I’d try and find a few good things to say about our current situation.

This item will for obvious reasons be a great deal shorter than recently but as I am running out of things to talk about it’s probably for the best. 

Can you even recall the last time anyone mentioned Brexit? Despite the problems of the Corona it’s not all bad.

If you’ve long despaired about people swanning in and out of public loos without washing their hands, then despair no more. We have had it rammed down our throats for so long now that we have to get our hands nice and clean or be thrown out of society like a modern day leper that finally Joe public has actually taken on board the fact that personal hygiene is a necessity!

Eurovision has been cancelled. This programme is never as hilarious as people say especially since the demise of Terry Wogan who giggled his way through most of them whether sober or not - only he would have known. The song that the UK choose is usually rubbish and nobody gives us any points because we’re classed as a petulant child. This year we will be spared all that ritual humiliation. The same also applies to all sporting fixtures where we fall into the same category.

I read recently that the world’s pollution problems are improving, the canals in Venice are as clear as bottled water, the nitrogen levels in India are 50% down, and in Hong Kong pollution from car exhausts has dropped 32%. Northern Italy in particular has had 40% falls in nitrogen dioxide pollution due to the closures of its factories. One expert was quoted as saying the shift represented the ‘largest scale experiment ever’ in terms of the reduction of industrial emissions. This really does beg the question just who and what is Greta Thunberg who said ‘act locally, think globally’? Well I'm not being mean and I'm as keen as anyone else on protecting our planet but suspicions must fall on this young lady and her powers. She has got what she was bleating about but at what cost? 

The latest predictions are that the south of England will run out of water within 20 years but I think that’s going to be a lot sooner with the amount of handwashing going on at the moment.