Acclimatise

The reason we Brits struggle when the temperature dares to exceed 22°C is because, quite simply, we are not used to it. In other places around the world – more tropical climates for instance – the average temperature can hover around 30°C all year round and nobody bats an eyelid. So why do they find it so easy when we strip down to the bare essentials and slap on the Factor 50? Answer: they’re used to it.

Thanks to our position in the world, coupled with our island geography, we somehow manage to experience every weather condition on a sliding scale more-or-less on a daily basis. Case in point: it was clear with strong sunlight and high pollen counts just a few days ago. Now it’s pissing down. We moan about how the weather can’t make up its mind because we’re frustrated at the lack of consistency. We complain when it’s too hot and we complain when it’s too cold – sometimes both complaints occur on the same day.

While others have the chance to acclimatise to an environment that’s a bit more stable and a lot less changey, we never know from one day to the next what will constitute suitable and practical clothing for the day ahead. So, dear world, leave us alone. Let us have this moan, because soon it will be winter again. And when that time comes, we’ll want to moan about how cold it’s been getting since we’ll have only just finishing acclimatising to the summer.

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Every now and then, a “typical” mainstream pop song manages to burst through this cold, hard, adamant-to-be-alternative exterior of mine and causes my inner long-arm-flailing former party child to have a bit of a boogie. It appears that this may well just be one such song that may or may not have come to my attention primarily through viewing of highlights at Glastonbury.

Despite a bit of a dodgy slow intro about make-up or something – plus the fact that at times it seems like about five different songs stitched together – it has a chorus that just sticks around, with the only description I can come up with being “bouncy”. I take issue with the lack of green in the video though. It might as well be called “Prominent Red Light” or even “No Light At All”.

Lorde – Green Light