Sun’s out, but let’s give peace a chance

The weather has been quite nice over the last week or two, which is lovely, but I did hear someone roll out a distinctly bleached out phrase the other day. ‘Sun’s out, guns out’, they said. That wasn’t the only thing they said, would have been totally weird if they just walked off after four words, but I didn’t transcribe the rest of the conversation.

It’s a strange thing to say, though. Now actually I can well understand that a period of nice weather is particular desirable in a military situation, you don’t want to be getting bogged down on the battlefield, do you. But at the same time, do you want to be giving away tactics on such a sensitive subject? Hardly going to be taking the enemy by surprise when your strategy is available to order from Etsy stitched on a cap.

I do gather that this person could also have been taken to understand that they intended to air their upper arms during this period of sunny weather, but looking at them I really don’t think it’s anything they would have meant to brag about. Unless direct sunlight is essential to the muscle increasing process, in which case they should have at it.

Personally I don’t like to put too much pressure on the weather – ‘sun’s out, I’ll think about going out myself, but who knows whether it’ll actually last until I’ve finished work?’. Doesn’t look quite the same on a hat, but it’s more realistic.

Truth be told, if the sun’s out I’ll probably be doing much the same as I would have been doing if it was cold and wet, I’ll just be going about it in a slightly happier fashion. Which reminds me, I need to pop to the supermarket. Won’t need the umbrella today thank goodness.