OK, so despite various harbingers of doom concerning climate change, global warming and the like (all serious issues of course), the weather in 2008 thus far has been pretty poor. It just hasn’t been making an effort - all the seasons seem to be melding into one unending, drab October afternoon.

Well no more!

The sun is here for at least four days in a row according to the sage weatherfolk at the BBC, so I have taken the admittedly drastic step of BREAKING OUT THE SHORTS. Please see attached picture. Based on past experience of taking a potentially premature leap to shorts, this action on my part is at least fairly likely to bring about a thundering monsoon of biblical proportions, so I just wanted to warn everyone in advance. If it starts clouding up, blame me.