Entry for April 27, 2007

Lady luck tends to follow me through my life. For example, thanks to the happy accident of my birth date, I am living through an unprecedentedly warm and sunny period in the history of the West of Scotland. My ancestors, if they had a day off from hacking the coal out from some seam miles underground, would have spent a day off in April playing football on some freezing ash park in the pouring rain.
However, for me, because of the pleasant effects of global warming, I was able to spend my late April day in shirt sleeves sipping coffee at a pavement cafe. As the earth's atmosphere boils off into oblivion, I am happy in the knowledge that I arrived at just the right time - I missed the worst of the rain, and I've managed to avoid the nasty bit that's coming (you know the wars and the famines and the ban on imported lagers).
So today, I salute my ancestors who, in addition to living miserable troglodyte existences, were actually sowing the seeds of my pleasant April day. As they broke their bodies tearing the coal from the Number 9 pit, they were releasing those all-important greenhouse gases, and so warming up the climate in anticipation of me - the zenith of the family line.