Frozen Feet and the Sun

Sat, 26 May 2007 22:56:12 GMT

Today, I stood at the bus stop somewhere in London and my feet froze. I thought it was summer, or so the official time tells me. British Summer time. What has happened. Where is the summer??????? This weekend should have been a warm one, bank holiday. It is exactly as it says, a holiday for the banks and no one else.......

People change when it is warm, they smile at you, nod in acknowlegement and even sometimes say "nice day love". After being cocooned up all winter, the body cries gasping "vitamin D vitamin D" "Give me vitamin D, toes look up at you and say I want to be free....

The mind goes into reverse mode in winter. Things that one tolerated when it was summer become annoying and intolerable. For example that extra 5 minute wait for the bus, or the presence of foreigners (I have experienced that). This seems to bring a scowl across the faces of the indigenous not because they hate you but because they are fed up of life in the dull, damp, environment and as everyone knows, if you can't blame yourself or nature for a situation, blame someone else..........

If I could carry the sunshine from the equator to London I would, and would gladly pay the excess baggage charges the airlines charge, just so that I could share it with everyone. for FREE!!!!!!. Winter brings sniffles, headaches, overspending and depressive eating.

The sun also brings out surprises... Why else would you find so many yet to be born appearing as soon as the sun comes out. It is as though coats and jackets kept them hidden and the sun opened the gateway for them so they could shout, "look at me, I am about to be born,". I pray that the real summer comes soon so that when the children stream out of school the sun rather than Xboxes, PS2's and computers keep them occupied. Until then I am thawing my toes against the radiator which was switched on today........... or

Ghana- Do you have lights

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:41:24 GMT

I was in Ghana and one of things I experienced were the power cuts. Technical reasons were given from above and we had to grin and bear it. We had 12 hours off during the day and 12 hours off during the night on alternate days sometimes every two days. The common phrase now is "do you have lights?".

Most people have an electricity schedule stuck up somewhere in their house or office and its not always accurate. The official term is "Load Shedding" but when the lights go out unexpectedly on your day on it is called "Lights Off". Now we all rush to do ironing, cooking, emailing before the deadline and its funny to see people rushing home cos lights will come on at 6pm. We get up at 4am to do things before they go out at 6am. Somehow it is always accurate when it should go off but takes about 3 hours later than scheduled to come on.

Who do you complain to? Everyone is going through it and the in thing now is to have a generator. Conversations are geared to how many KV you have and, how much they cost and whether diesel is better than petrol........If you want to visit someone in the evening you ask "Do you have lights".

Different areas of the same town rotate so you find people rushing to Zone A to browse in a cafe and later on rushing to Zone B to continue browsing.......... Much as it is annoying and causing many to lose business income, it has spiced up life and made people laugh at the nonsense going on around them.... My question is.... with all the sunshine why isnt solar made more availbe to the country???????/

To Solar or not to solar....that is the question

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Frozen Feet and the Sun

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