It’s been raining daily and often non-stop in most of Italy since All Souls day which was commemorated at the end of last October. Venice has been flooded out by the highest tide seen in years, Liguria is on its knees with landslides and interrupted communications, thousands have been made homeless: the cost of this meteorological and social disaster is of unquantifiable magnitude.
The fact that much of my electrical equipment has been knocked out thanks to our house being struck by lightning and that my washing hasn’t had a chance to dry itself in weeks pales in comparison to the difficulty so many Italians have had to put up with.
If someone still doesn’t think it’s all due to global warming or, at least, thinks that the remedies put in place to combat climatic change are sufficient should think again before they are forced to wear wet suit and aqua lungs for the rest of their lives.
Today comes as a morning of respite. That warm golden glow on the last of the autumn leaves is called sunshine and it is most welcome. Perhaps today the washing will finally find its place in the storage cupboard.
Meanwhile, another ‘perturbazione’ (as the Italians name their weather front), this time of a political nature, is due to hit those islands known as Ultima Thule to the conquerors that set out from these lands to conquer it: the ancient Romans.
What will be the outcome if that winter wonder of a general election of December twelfth is lost to reason and sanity?
What if brexitisis cannot find a cure for its cancerous growth over the body politic?
The UK parliament has already rejected a Brexit deal four times: just because the Irish border has now been changed from a land to a sea one is not much of a change…
British citizens will no longer have a voice in European laws and regulations but will still have to respect he EU’s decisions and pay EU tariffs.
British citizens will no longer have control over borders and immigration as they have at present, but will have to obtain permits and visas from those countries hosting non-EU immigrants who remain in the EU. And as for their health care arrangements with the EU….god forbid they should ever get ill!
The UK will lose its entire car production destined for foreign countries, and a third of manufacturing, and probably a large part of its financial business in the City (which is already being transferred to Frankfurt).
In return Brits find themselves living in a divided and misguided country with an electorate full of unrealistic expectations, a discredited political class and a parliamentary democracy ridiculed throughout the world.
Johnson the PM is a regular item of fun on Italian TV with his several comic look-alikes.
Of course, there will be quite a few who will want to follow Britain on this path.
Hurry up now to join the brexiteers and avoid the queues!
(Although you’ll get them big-time, if the leavers have their way, at such beauty spot as Stansted and Gatwick.)
Ah well..it’ll soon be Christmas…
(Our offering to the Italian ‘presepe’ -Christmas crib – this year).
The blues are no less prominent in theUK similar rain problems attributable I think people have forgotton to Gulf Stream cooling and causing also these cold temperatures minus 4 tonight! Reckless as we seem to have become turning our backs to landlines for often useless mobile phone connections probably effected by satellite disturbances caused by all this outerspace disturbances. I too have managed to do some washing and wonder whether it will be dry to use but undoubtedly will have to use some heating. How time is flying by so quickly so much to do still there is always tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Seems that Christmas madness has set sail what with Black Friday Pink Monday and so on for some people it is spend spend spend not I ! I loved The Facebook saying posted “You save 100% if you buy nothing!” Lesson to be learnt always unplug items or invest in a better anti fulmine gizmo!