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Summer in danger of extinction
Have you noticed how the summer’s changed? In the old days, July and August were the “silly months”. The weeks for trivia in the news.
Bruno Filipe Pires, Edition 690 (11 Aug 2011), 
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At its worst we saw fat politicians slopping along the beach in their flip-flops, or harrassed firemen rushing to put out a fire somewhere in the forgotten interior - in a village no-one had ever heard of.
In other words, predictable summer pap…
The summer used to be the time even the news went on holiday – but this year (and last) all that seems to have changed. In fact, this year’s more agitated than last.
And we’re not just talking about immediate news, either. We’re talking about news of what’s to come (and how absolutely hideous it will be). Right now it’s “euro-confusion”.
We’re being assailed on a daily basis by the dire consequences of it all: how bleak the future will be. Best option? To pray September never comes…
While euro-confusion chunders on, we’ve lived through the horror of the “monster of Norway”, followed by the anarchy on London’s street riots - and don’t look now, but on the other side of the Pond they’re predicting the end of the world – and a new global recession triggered by the US…
With all this “trivia”, how is anyone expected to be able to enjoy the summer, for heaven’s sake?!
And remember that strange news snippet about a fishing trawler unwittingly picking up three human bones 6 kilometres off Tavira island? We can’t be sure, but could they be from a holidaymaker who simply couldn’t take the pressure and threw him or herself into the sea?
Sadly, nothing we associate with summer seems to be sacred anymore. At the “Sudoeste” music festival there was a mega-wave of thefts from revellers’ tents and talk of rapes. Even football has been affected. Did you read how players from the Luxembourg selection were burgled in their seaside resort hotel? I mean, come on! Are we in the Algarve (Allgarve?) or South Africa?!
This cannot be allowed to continue, dear readers. We want to be free to go to the beach in peace. We want to be able to lick our ice-creams without thinking of the Troika, and we want summer back like it used to be - so that we can at least enjoy some happier days!
