Ah, the onset of summer and the lovely soothing sounds; of twittering birdsong, of gentle breezes, of leather on willow followed by a blast of, er, Kool and the Gang's Celebration in the 20/20 cricket, and of the click and whirr of the air conditioning, or air con as we like to call it, American-styley.
I don't know about you, but I can't for the life of me get my head around the old air con.
There we are for around three-quarters of the year in the cold and the dark, or so it seems, then as soon as the temperature rises a smidgen we whack on the air con.
This turns a normal, nice temperature into one of glacial proportions so when we come in off the street in our dresses and T-shirts we then have to wrap up inside in big jumpers, coats and scarves to wand off the old goose pimples. Ludicrous, non?
I could totally understand it if we were living in Florida or Dubai or somewhere relentlessly hot, but this is Chichester in England is it not?
And usually, in offices, no-one can agree in how icy it should be, in my experience. In one place I worked two women of hot flush age had had an air con-based falling out and communicated henceforth by putting up a helium balloon when they felt it was getting too hot or too cold.
So, I propose a little idea to put an end to all this shenanigans. It is a little bit 'out there' but I will share it with you nonetheless.
Why don't we open our windows in summer instead of switching on the energy-gobbling 'con' monster?
There, I've said it. And I hope you will support my one woman campaign.
After all, listening to roadworks through an open window is surely one of the traditions of the season?
* What is it about life's little irritations that they are, well, little, but mammothly annoying?
A reader wrote with her irritation of people not picking the right paced lane at the swimming pool, getting in the way of her thrice-weekly swim.
Working on the 'problem shared is a problem halved' principle, I think we should do the same with irritations. So, if you have any, please let me know, and we can all have a 'tut' and an eyebrow raise together.
sue.gilson@chiobserver.co.uk
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