The sun has got its hat on in London…

The sun has got its hat on again in my beloved London Town. This is a yet another welcome end to a few days of torrential rain and wind – in what I suspect will be an ongoing series of sun & rain episodes that will continue long after I am around to ride through them.

Anyway, I am also delighted by two bits of news from Stephen Fry.  First, he has passed a landmark in the strange man & woman-made world of the world wide web. To be clear, this is landmark is actually only ‘in’ one of the techno networks to have evolved in the electronic ether. And, this virtual but effective space for chat is just one of the generally positive outcomes from the fine addiction that many humans have to try new ways to communicate and share experiences with each other.

He now has over a million followers on Twitter. Having only joined in with this medium for communication last week I am still very much at novice stage. Nevertheless, I have already found some new common ground between me and one or two of the people I engage with in the real world. Now though, as stephenfry ‘follower’ number 999,123, I am pleased to have made my own tiny contribution to his achievement –one millionth to be reasonably precise.

The second bit of good news relates to my recent suggestion that trousers are far more important than we may currently think. If you have the inclination and strength of mind to listen to nearly all of Stephen’s 3 minute Tweetz Back from the Future you will see and hear what I mean – albeit in an appropriately virtual kind of way of course. So I hope this all brings a bit of light into the darkness for all who are burdened by ongoing fears and concerns about the weather.

Sadly, I think that this group of particular burden-carriers includes my fellow Groucho Club member Stephen, who is not only far more illustrious than me but he also wrote the club rules. I also imagine that the likelihood of him reading any of this potential source of cheer is rather less than a million to one. But Hey Ho! It is a sunshiny day where I am and I hope it is, or will, be where you are too.