You have to laugh...

When I was a child, we had winter. Snow fell. It was occasionally deep. As a child, it as fun. As a grown up, I imagine it was like today. Getting about would be difficult and potentially dangerous, only with very fewer cars.

Occasionally, it interfered with sporting events and pools panelist experts had to predict results of matches postponed. I had to scrape off the ice, like many, from the inside of my bedroom window to see out in a morning and, unless someone ie an adult, had got up and lit a fire, you stayed cold.

What thankfully we did not have was TV news. We lived knowing it was cold, knowing that milk may not be delivered - if the delivery failed, you had to walk to the dairy!-and knowing that it was fun for children and hard work for the grown ups. But today? TV journalists leap around like children who have never seen snow and continually tell you how cold it is. They turn up in areas where you wouldn't dream of being - even in benign weather!

We all have TV tales of winter, of snow, of problems doing what we do daily. And we all get on with. Sadly, there are tragedies, as there are all year round, but these TV people are the biggest joke.

It is as if only they are about, only they can experience the weather in all its glory and horror. I find it hootingly amusing to be told that it is absolutely freezing by some TV journalist who appears as high as the temperature is low. They move about the district, like some broadcasting chess game, and, at the same time, warn you how dangerous it may be to travel.
And they are so extra caring that they tell you to take care and, unbelievably, tell you to wrap up well.

After a time, fresh snow loses its initial beauty and turns to mush, trodden down and dirtied by people just getting on with it. Similarly, the TV news follows a similar path. The TV news has now become slushy, and become a tedious and an unnecessary lingering hindrance to normal life.

The only way to deal with this bleak winter spell in broadcasting is to turn it off. But I find its tedious nature and predictability fascinating. I want to devise a TV winter Bingo game, where players score for words broadcast.

But I won't. Spring will be here soon