After the grey of winter, the sunshine of the last weeks has been like mana from heaven. Cloudless skies, glittering light; the lid has been taken off and we all breath more freely. However, heat in February is fundamentally wrong, and the news of temperature records being smashed across Europe, makes this early sun disturbing, however welcome it may be right now. Children are leaving their classrooms to protest about adults lack of concern about global warming. Their future is being frittered away while we hum and haa about ugly wind turbines and expensive fuel taxes. It is hard not to close our eyes to the uncomfortable truth of what global warming will do to our lovely earth. It is much easier to just lie back and feel the heat on our faces.
Cathy's real country garden 
well said. We are all walking around blindfolded and with our ears blocked. If 21.2C recorded at Kew today isn’t a wake up call what will be!
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It is hard not to enjoy an early spring and just hope it is good fortune, but I think the days of wine and roses may be over.
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I just went to a book talk with the author William Vollman. It was not hopeful, but I believe it was realistic. We keep sticking our heads in the sand. And the water and temps keep rising.
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I just hope that the youngsters will be stronger than my generation!
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So true, Cathy, and so sad.
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I want to be positive and to enjoy life, but sometimes it feels like fiddling while Rome burns.
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I feel the same way!
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I agree with what you say. I do wonder if what we do now and in the near future will be too little, too late. xx
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I very much hope not, there is so much to loose! X
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I agree with every word!! even just wrote about it!
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it is the issue of the century, I am afraid.
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it is!! Why don;t ALL of us do what we can? What a difference it could make!
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I agree!
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