I always thought that ‘award season’ was like March or thereabouts. The Oscars, the Brits, the… I dunno, loads of them. Maybe its a long season. Like Marching Season in Northern Ireland, which lasts most of the year, to give the Orangemen time to upset every single Republican and Catholic by marching round in bowler hats waving Union Jack flags. Lucky the Province is so accepting and tolerant and understanding. Debutantes have The Season for their outcoming? outpouring? whatever, but that’s a bit Downton for most people to give a shit about.

But we seem to have a glut of awards right now. Mid-season? And last night the award went to Lionel Messi. Who beat Fleabag and Game of Thrones as well as Gone with the Wind and Christiano Ronaldo. Phoebe Waller-Bridge came third after Virgil Van Dijk.

The award for Most Clueless Fence-Sitting Brexit Neutral with a Beard went to Jeremy Corbyn.

And now its raining. Like, really raining. Whether this is a ‘late summer’ storm thingy or just the start of our drizzly season (6 months’ continuous) as the darkness descends for the year I don’t know. They didn’t tell me. But after the glorious sunny weeks its a bit dull and depressing. I don’t cycle to the station in the rain. You get wet. But like really, really wet. Bikes attract the water. Not a lot of people know that. And then the rest of the day I’m wet and its not nice. So many seasons. Not all of them good.

And the award for the most unbelievable and unbelievably stroppy teenager definitely goes to Greta Thunberg (which auto-corrects to ‘Thunderbird’ if you’re interested). Unfortunately she also wins the award for the most annoying person currently in America, including Donald Trump. But she is frighteningly possessed. Brilliantly clever. Pulls no punches and speaks English with a power and eloquence that most native speakers could never match. She’s very impressive, carries an incredible power, has started a movement that now involves about 20 million people in 30 countries and she doesn’t even go to school. She sits outside and just, kind’a ‘sucks up’ all the information by osmosis. You simply have to admire her. Even if you don’t exactly like her.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx