Politicians

Just made the mistake of watching the news and had the misfortune to see some of the day in parliament televised.  It just went to further my view that if all politicians are similar to UK politicians they must be universally disgusting.  If politicians would just get with trying to run the country and stop their pathetic point scoring and squabbling we might get somewhere.  When will they understand that we have chosen to elect them and we expect them to get on with doing their job.  The job they were elected for was to run the country together and bring to the table the best of every view.  What they seem to think we employ them for is to partake in scoring points off each other by criticising everything any other party suggests then reinventing the idea in their own colours a week later.  Its not surprising that most young people seem to think that its not worth their effort voting, in truth it probably isn't.

The Longest Day

Here in the UK we are now past the longest day, it's all down hill from here.  Until recently I didn't understand why the longest day didn't correspond with the hottest part of the year.  I listen to BBC radio 4 as I drive and I glean some interesting facts as I listen.  Apparently the heat continues to build after the passing of the longest day because the atmosphere is gaining temperature faster than it cools for about eight weeks so it doesn't start to cool until the length of sunlight is short enough to allow more cooling than the heat received.  I probably haven't explained that very well but that's the gist of the reason.  I found that fascinating, perhaps I'm just sad.