We’ve been getting some very nice mails from Nancy in Phoenix, Arizona. It sounds hot over there! Glasgow had a wee spell of summer over the last weekend and it felt great. Hey don’t get us wrong Nancy, I’m not talking 90 degrees, maybe 75 if we’re lucky, but warm enough for the Glaswegians who will start taking their clothes off at the first signs of summer.
It’s always interesting when the weather has been consistently good here. (i.e. a couple of days in a row) I noticed a few people in denial yesterday who were wearing very light T shirts who had clearly chosen to ignore the fact that it had all gone quite grey and cold outside. The people who drive convertibles are often the ones with the biggest problems with reality. You’ll get a sunny January day when it’s cold enough to freeze the paint off your front door and you¹ll see someone in a topless beemer cruising along the M8 with ten layers of clothing on. I suspect these drivers usually turn their radios up pretty loud when they eventually have to stop at traffic lights so they can drown out the level of ridicule aimed their way.
Of course Glaswegians clothing and outward appearance can often be very deceptive. I mentioned the Commonwealth Games inspectors the other day who might well be slightly confused at the high density of sportswear favoured by the natives. Last night I slowed down my car to let a jogger run past. When I looked at him closer I was a little worried that he was too old for this running lark. It was then that I noticed the fag in his hand and the bus pulling away which he’s just missed.
Despite harking from further south by birth, I seem to be imbued with a constitution that keeps me from feeling the cold. I have my limits, mind, and so hopefully I don’t under-dress to the point of inviting ridicule. I’ve worked out in Finland in midwinter when it’s been about -10 (that’s still Fahrenheit) and I made sure to dress accordingly! In fact the intense heat will bother me first, so 75 degrees sounds just about right to me. Arizona is on my wish list of places to see some day, so will see how I cope at that end of the spectrum.
It’s funny, I’ve visited the West coast of Scotland and the Hebrides on a number of occasions, and with only a few brief exceptions always had great weather. It’s one of the most stunning parts of the world I’ve ever visited (and I’m overdue and longing to come back soon) and whilst that’s true no matter the prevailing conditions, blue skies certainly complemented the scenery.
Well come on down!!! I am more than willing to share the next 4-5 months of 105 plus degree temperatures with those who feel they are missing out. Guess it beats goin’ to hell, here you can flee when the spirit moves you……heh, heh, heh.
Of course anybody who heads over to our glorious desert should really come in the Spring beautiful weather for about 2 days, nights are worth staying up for. Desert is beautiful. Golf courses are jammed. It still isn’t worth a$5 million for a condo on our “waterfront” which is an irrigation canal.
So, bring me a CD of the “Lunatics Are Running the Asylum.” That should be our new anthem, nationally, as well as locally.
Yeah, I am listening to yesterday’s show today. Burning a CD to listen to while helping residents move out of a 35 year old apartment complex that is deemed too old to rehab, remodel or maintain.
So I will be off to fry my brain and taking my 26 and 31 year old sons along, just to prove that Mom is up to pace with them.
Love all of you at BBC Scotland. You, Ricky, are making my “real job workplace,” a lot livelier. The newsroom rocks out from my computer even when I am not at the desk I am told.
Later
WAR!!!! Edwin Star….thanks for playing it. You should have heard 50 Code Pink ladies singing that AT our protest against the Iraq mess and the dingbats over here in the USA who that get elected to office.
Needless to say I am not a Mom or Grammy of traditional bent.
Find that Lunatics Are Running the Asylum song………..can’t find it over here and I love that song.
nice thought
i think i’d rather see someone topless in a beemer on the m8 though.
well it seems strange that you’ve got it good at the minute.
it is so cold and wet down here.
i have to remind myself of the time of year it relly feels like late autume and not spring heading into summer. i could do with a bit of warmth.
though i think nancy can keep those temps.
i just want a little glimmer of sunshine, just to remind me it’s spring.
it made me think and reminded me back in the late 80’s i was living in tayport just across from dundee and it was consistantly warmer and dryer then it is down here.