I’ve been exploring the blogging world a little this last
week and I’ve found a whole group of bloggers who post up a photograph every Wednesday
using a weekly tagline from a website called Sticky Fingers. I mentioned a few
weeks ago that I’ve enrolled for a photography course so this will be a good photography-based focus
for my brain. [As it’s so hot in the UK this week I’ve chosen photographs that
allows me to incorporate a little moan while I’m at it.]
The tagline for this week's Photo Gallery is: Street Photography
You don’t often find streets like this in
the UK, streets where you can escape from the glaring Jerusalem sun and wander in
relative comfort.
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| Jerusalem's Old City, October 2011 Taken with Canon IXUS 115 HS |
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| Jerusalem's Old City, October 2011 Taken with Canon IXUS 115 HS |
And my moan, as if you hadn’t guessed, is about the glaring UK
sun. I got up very early this morning and was showered, dressed and out in time
to beat the heat. I needed to do the food shopping without melting both myself
and my butter. Irrespective of the weather, this is the best time of the day to
shop. The shelves are stacked high, members of staff are fresh, friendly and
helpful and the car park is empty. I may even start doing early morning
shopping all year round. [I’m kidding! I won’t really!]
The UK is meant to have a temperate maritime climate. So far
this summer we’ve had torrential rain, floods, tornadoes, electric storms and
now searing heat. Could this be the global warming that scientists have been
predicting? If this level of heat continues we’ll have to build sheltered,
walled streets like the ones in Jerusalem’s Old City. As for the flooding, I
know nothing about the grand scale, but I’m convinced that locally we’d benefit
from a little less concrete and a lot more garden area so that rainwater at
least has a chance of soaking away... It would be nicer to look at too.
