Love Sunshine

Daylight saving? What about sunlight saving policy?

This weekend will see the start of British Summer Time. Officially, that is. As the winds bully and bluster us, and the freezing rain pelts down relentlessly, it requires extraordinary faith to see but the faintest glimmer at the end of winter's tunnel.

But it does set me thinking, and winging, and therefore blogging. If officialdom is prepared to notice the sun, and how it does play quite an important part in our lives, and if it can establish measures to save daylight (that grey stuff straggling meagerly down through the interminable stodge of our sky), then why can't it take seriously Sunlight Saving and Sharing policies? What good is extra daylight if if all it reveals is grumpy grey? How much more enlightened would be a policy that recognises it's not light per se we like, but sunshine. The real stuff, good and strong and not sieved through the devil's sock we call our sky?

I refer, of course, to my modest proposals for Solar Flexi-Time being adopted in this country. These have been devised to address the abuses arising from the current Sod's Legislation that sunny days invariably occur during the working week, and that, come the weekend, the skies are as black as our barbecue prospects. Absenteeism currently soars during a heatwave, indicating a grass roots disgruntlement with the current situation. So why not allow employees to slope off to parks and beaches whenever the sun shines, and to make up the workload when the clouds return? As they no doubt will. Imagine the good health of the economy if we'd all worked through last 'summer'. And if we have a fine one this year, then it's only fair. Over time it would find its level, and make most of us a good deal happier. A well-sunned, happy workforce is a productive workforce. So SAVE OUR SUNSHINE.