Where did the first half of 2022 go?
IT WON’T be long before summer packs away her swimsuit, sandals and bucket and spade and disappears out of your front door just as autumn, clad in a warm sweater and stout leather shoes, starts rapping on your back door, demanding entry.
Take my advice, do what I do and keep him waiting out in the garden until the last possible moment.
Because once autumn gets his proverbial feet under the table, the leaves will start to fall and the nights will draw in.
The only advantage about darker nights is the possibility there may be some new entertaining and engrossing programmes in the terrestrial TV schedules.
Because this summer they’ve been shockingly poor.
As an aside, I once heard that when Noel Edmonds hosted his popular Saturday night show Noel’s House Party, it was written into his contract that when a new series began every autumn, it had to start the weekend after the clocks changed.
Because darker nights mean more people huddle around their tellies, maximising the TV ratings.
If I had a hat, I’d take it off to him. I have a theory that every year seems to fly by due to shops and supermarkets promoting certain items ridiculously well in advance of when they’re actually needed.
For example . . .
I was in a well-known High Street stationers/newsagents/book sellers (it can’t seem to make its mind up what it is) a month ago and was astonished to see a display of pens, pencils, rulers and exercise books marked “BACK TO SCHOOL!”
A full three weeks before schoolchildren had even broken up for the summer holidays, their parents were being cajoled into buying things that wouldn’t be needed until September.
Also in early July, a friend was in a branch of the shop that rhymes with “The Nurks” and as he paid for his purchases (I don’t associate with shop lifters, my friends!) and jokily remarked “I’m surprised next year’s calendars aren’t on sale!”, the assistant replied: “They’re on display upstairs. And next week we’re bringing the new Christmas crackers out of the storeroom!”
Let me be the first to wish you “Happy Easter 2023!”