Well, isn't this nice….

As I'm fequently accused, by, well, just about everyone I know, of moaning constantly about, well, just about everything, I'd thought today's post would be a nice positive one.

After all, it's summer, it's hot, and isn't it good? Speaking as someone with nothing to do but laze around the house waiting for the beers to chill in the freezer, I'm loving this hot weather. Oh, sure, for those poor unfortunates travelling to work in 50 degree underground carriages, I have nothing but sympathy, but I, dear reader, am fortunately excluded from such company by dint of my being temporarily professionally disadvantaged.

So as I find myself in the garden in a deckchair with a book, my mind turns to the price we've paid for civilization. Would it not be a fine thing to be a hunter–gatherer on the savannas of africa? A morning spent gathering water and preparing tools, a lazy siesta, an afternoon tracking the heards of wildebeest while the missus gathers fruits and berries, a triumphant return to the camp for an evening bonfire and barbeque….

Well, I suppose it wouldn't have been like that at all, but it's a nice image, don't you think? Anyway, back to civilization, as I think the beers are probably cold by now.

Jonathan Jones : 19 Jul 2006 14:44 |  Tags: Atavism Summer |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem