Vacation, vacation
August is upon us and the Cameron coalition nears its 100 days. Cuts are looming, some are here. The Labour leadership contest dwindles toward its September finishing line. And with little guilt some who are lucky enough are heading for the beach.
I was out in Camden last night, running a last minute pre-beach errand and I was amazed at the sheer number of people on the streets – on a bike run to Islington there was a constant stream of pavement bulges, cascades of humans sitting, standing, outside bars and pubs.
Who needs the Mediterranean now that global warming is here? A lot of drink too – pints I glimpsed more than shorts but then the glasses are smaller and in my cycling dash I may have missed them.
Strangely, passing these vast knots of humanity leaves the speeding two-wheeler interestingly apart, almost lonely. Will there be this almost indulgent life this time next year?
A Guardian blogger orders me not to pack my bilious turquoise crocs. I shall take his advice. I never check baggage in, so that eases the pressure.
It’s a moment to take stock. Despite the rhetoric, and the spoken cuts, the coalition is still largely popular.
No one is even clear as to whether Cameron misspeaks or says it straight. There is a fear growing that it may be the latter, in which case we may be in for interesting times. Could we possibly have exited the many-decade age in which politics was about obfuscation?
What fun to be playing cricket with a country that “looks both ways”. Ambidextrous cricket is a rare entity. I was only ever able to bat left handed. I believe that inside all right handed people there is a left handed batsmen trying to get out, but I’ll leave that for another Snowblog.
Once one deteriorates to discussing ambidextrous cricket, it’s clearly time for “beach recovery therapy”. I may risk the sand in my keyboard and send the odd blog, but normal service won’t resume for three weeks.
Why don’t you keep going with out me Sam, Adrian, Margaret, Britt, Richard, and the rest, you hardly seem to need me!