*The Debatewise Blog
Upside down and back to front…
Hey Everyone, your PR and Marketing Officer is back in the country refreshed and invigorated and ready for action!!I heard the Automatic on the radio this morning and found the lyrics strangely appropriate:
Can't put my finger on what's changed
To my surprise I found everything the same
In a house that's not quite home
Nothing was missing but something had gone
What had gone I hear you ask... well...possibly any last inkling that the world we live in is an ordered sane one! The natural order of my world has been a little unusual lately. Not least because jetlag has left me waking at six and going to bed at 9.30! But last night before I went to bed I looked outside to see snow falling lightly over the rooftops of Islington. This is the first time it has snowed in London in October in 70 years. Alhough this is interesting it just gets downright ridiculous when I say in my time spent trekking in the Himalayas last week was mainly in 30 degree heat and I actually managed to get sunburn...
Life is a little odd sometimes. Nothing should be taken for granted. Weather, election results, investment banks. But at least in the true British tradition of discussing the weather these little surprises give us something to talk about. Maybe even debate... after all, when nothing is as it seems it might be a good time to find out how things seem to others. I think all the walking in high altitudes has given me a new pespective in both the literal and metaphorical sense of the phrase...
Or maybe these are just the confused ramblings of a jetlagged and world weary traveller :p