Keep taking the drugs

[ailbhe]

The garden is sunny and hot. The laundry is drying quickly. Three loads are out there now and one is in the machine, so I'm being very productive.

I've taken my pills and ordered a repeat prescription.

This weather is great, and I'm loving it, but it's frightening, too. I watched the children playing in the garden earlier, in March, and wondered what they will look back on, and from what, when they are my age or older. The red kites are back, and there are loads of ladybirds, but the heat is ridiculous.

The water butt is almost full and we're trying to get the ground good and wet. We're hoping for rain in April to fill the butt up again, but either way, getting it wet to a good depth before the summer heat really sets in seems important.

I'm trying to decide how much of this is medical anxiety and how much is that actually, climate change is a thing. I'm trying to avoid thinking about it when I can.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I would say that attaching it to specific days and specific weather is perhaps more on the medical-anxiety side than the rational-climate-change-is-a-thing side. Climate change is about scientifically observed averages and long-term changes, not about sudden hot spells at the end of March. It's a human reaction to associate it more clearly with unseasonable weather, but if you have weather that is perfectly seasonable for the time of year, it doesn't negate climate change. So it sounds a bit more like medical anxiety than climate-change-is-a-thing.

(or, as Armstrong and Miller, there's a difference between climate and weather!)

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

Climate change really is a thing, but it's not happening on a humanly-observable scale. Many if not most of the climate change models I've seen predict that the UK will get colder and wetter, not warmer, anyway - especially if the Gulf Stream fails.

So yeah, anxiety.

[ailbhe]

Thank you, the anxiety tends to also say "You only think that because it's more convenient for you" so outside confirmation is helpful.

[ailbhe]

Will hold on to colder and wetter to help me stop the panic, thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this. Also, this is a SE micro-climate thing, Ailbhe - here in the North-West we've had three warm springs followed by three cold, wet summers in succession. The SE of England is dry and warm, but the rest of the island definitely isn't. I think it would be hard to deduce sudden radical climate change from such a localised phenomenon, so I think yes, anxiety. Good luck snuffing it out. Anxiety is an annoying beast - it will find anything to feed on.

[ailbhe]

Thanks; who is this?

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Sorry! How horribly freaky - it's me, and I had no idea LJ logged me out. I somehow suspect that makes that comment far less helpful.

[ailbhe]

The tone strongly implied it was someone I knew, so it wasn't as alarming as it might have been.