80. 28.03.2012 Now in blog form

Well I’ve resisted for long enough, but now here it is the Picture of the day as a blog. I’ve no idea how it works or how people read it, but people have been whining on at me to do it for years. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end of my unhealthy obsession with Facebook.

Today was the umpteenth nice day in a row, unheard of for this little island, but just as we get to think it’s normal the weather experts are telling us it’s about to change. There again, they told us we were in for a long hard, ball freezing  winter  but with the exception of a cold snap at the start of the year and some well recorded  wet snow in London,  that didn’t happen. Neither did last year’s BBQ summer. So perhaps it won’t be too bad this weekend after all. 

However, the government issued sound and sensible advice this afternoon. Mr Cameron soundly and sensibly advised us to  “make sure that you have enough petrol in your tank if you are planning to go somewhere in your car.”   Sound and sensible advise indeed another clear signal that we are all in this together. Just make sure you panic buy and think of yourself.

So as another petrol crisis looms and that trip to the beach looks like it won’t be happening, prepare yourself for widespread coverage and panic mongering on all the news channels.  Wall to wall library pictures and stock footage of queues at petrol stations on a constant loop.  I’m sure some of the footage was filmed during the three day week in the 70s. All your favourite local news reporters reporting live from forecourts with the the generic array of youths on bikes gesturing in the background. A  map of the worst affected areas in the country, but only if it happens to be London and the South East.  Clever graphics will be used to show the problem, a jerry can for example in varying degrees of emptiness.  And don’t forget the token  double-barrelled mother complaining that she  can’t do the ½ mile school run each day  as a river of petrol dribbles out of the overfull  4x4 petrol tank. “Just how am I going to get  Farquar and Clamidia to school?” she will bemoan, with a botoxed look of horror on the end of her nose.
  So if you’re planning a weekend at the beach, make sure you top up with petrol  at every station you  pas, and make sure you have several jerry cans in the boot, along with your shovels and warm blankets as the weathermen have predicted the weather is going to take a turn for the worse.

Anyhow, for those of you who can’t get to the beach this weekend, here’s a picture of some people enjoying a lovely spring day on the beach at Dwygyfylchi.