Musings For Airports
*There's a stainless steel panel on top of the bin next to the toilet in the hotel. When I'm urinating I can see what it would be like if a gigantic John pissed all over me. It's oddly mesmerising. *The hotel itself is not great. We're used to the tiniest amount of luxury when we travel - a half decent bed and a fridge would be useful. They are not in evidence here. *We've arrived on the hottest day of the year (the following day will supersede it in temperature and will prove hotter than any day of the "long hot summer of '76", and it's not even summer, it's May. The world is toast. It's astonishing that scientists all agree global warming is an imminent threat, farmers agree, as their crops are dust, the general public largely agrees, barring Wetherspoons enthusiasts, that fundamental world change is both deadly and imminent. The only people who say no, it's all FINE, don't be silly, it's all just weather, are politicians a...
