• Deep Dive 13: Seasons🍂

  • Jun 2 2022
  • Length: 59 mins
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Deep Dive 13: Seasons🍂

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  • Crispy Zebra presents Seasons I’d like to tell you about the seasons, as I experienced them as a child. Snowdrops and spring meant a shiny, new outside world to re-explore. It meant wellies, thick jumpers and big puddles, it meant travel and the rebirth of hope. With the daffodils came the inevitable onset of yet another warm, often damp summer. In times of fair weather, summer meant sand dunes, crabs (the crustaceous kind, cheeky!) And as I got older, it meant cider, laughing – a lot, loud music and red squirrels. Every autumn arrived with conkers, Indian summers - which I adored - and kaleidoscopic tree lines. Every November, without fail, you slipped back into the big boots and secured your long, buttoned coat, a beast of a cold front just around the corner. Today, in the 2020s, the start (or end) of seasons is becoming harder to differentiate. Questions such as ‘Do I have enough jumpers?’ or ‘When do I put the big coat on, again?’ seem quaint, and a very long time ago. Now, seasons can herald in blasts of intense cold, weather bombs, tornados, forest fires, blistering heat waves and so much more. Monsoon season is no longer a thing you can set your clock to, and a desolating famine or life-ending drought is never far away from many of those living on planet Earth today. All of us, regardless of location, are now experiencing a ‘blurring’ of the seasons, as the earth starts to heat up exponentially. You’ll recall the theory of ‘non-habitable zones? That’s right, the ones so often ridiculed as crazy, left-wing propaganda by those in the seats of power? Well, sadly, this is now a reality of life for millions of people; those without the means to escape a weather-based hell on earth. I have stood, alone, in a shaded square in Sevilla in August at noon, where the thought of just two more minutes outside in such brutal heat made my wet skin shiver with fear. All I can remember was praying all day long from my air-conditioned room that an electricity outage didn’t take the city off-grid. Trust me, that would have been very, very bad. But for now, let’s take out some time to celebrate spring, summer, autumn and winter – the way they were supposed to be. Artists include XTC, Small Faces, Sunbeam Sound Machine, The Killers & The Doors.
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