They used to say that an English summer consisted of two hot sunny days and a thunder storm. This year, in Lewes, UK, we’ve had a lot more hot sunny days that but we’ve had a few thunder storms too. I think thunder and lighting is exciting and dramatic  and, the other morning, I was out in my garden practicing my kungfu patterns when a storm brewed up. I didn’t mind carrying on in the rain, it was actually rather refreshing and, when the thunder was only a distant rumbling, I didn’t mind that either. When the lightning came in my direction, however, I took the wise course and fled into the house.

I don’t mind getting wet and I’m able-bodies enough, so far, to keep my distance from lightning but I’ve always been effected by thundery conditions. For many years an impending thunder storm would lead to a migraine and, since I suffered my brain haemorrhage nearly five years ago, I have always been extra-sensitive to thunder storms.

I don’t know if there is any scientific evidence for this but, since my haemorrhage, I feel not just headachy on such days as today but I also struggle with a sense of lethargy, tightness in the head, drowsiness and mild nausea. I wonder if any other brain haemorrhage survivor else recognises these symptoms.  It may of course have nothing to do with brain injury or I might just be having a more extreme reaction to these conditions than I did before the haemorrhage.  I struggle on when it feels like it does here today but I long for the storm to pass. When it does, I bounce back instantaneously but right now I just want to go and lie down.

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Now I don’t want to worry you, fellow Europeans, but after yesterday’s rather paranoid blog about my fear that Poseidon, the Greek sea god, might drag me to a watery grave if I warned the Greeks about Germans bearing gifts, I am now really scared that the Greek gods are really after us.

Maybe it was a premonition, but soon after posting my warning, poor old President Hollande of France set off by plane to visit the German Chancellor, the ferocious Angela Merkel. He was hardly air-bound when the plane was struck by lightning and he had to turn back to Paris. What else could that have been but a warning shot from Zeus himself? The king of the Greek Gods is obviously annoyed by our treatment of his chosen people and he knows a thing or two about thunder and lightning.

So President Hollande, now that you’ve actually landed in Germany, be very careful. Don’t be persuaded by Germans bearing gifts, Zeus wants you to defend his Greeks.

Angela Merkel may look like a walk-over with her easy charm and bubbly personality but don’t be taken in, if she can take on Zeus, she’ll eat you for breakfast. The Gods are telling you to defend us all here in Europe so good luck, monsieur, you’ll need it.

Meanwhile, I’m getting into gear for the imminent publication (in October)  of my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, the story of a young fogey living in Brighton in 1967 who has a lot to learn when the flowering hippie counter culture changes him and the world around him.

You can already pre-order the book from the publishers, Ward Wood Publishing:

http://wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-stephen-dearsleys-summer-of-love.htm 

…or from Book Depository:

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Stephen-Dearsleys-Summer-Love-Colin-Bell/9781908742070

…or from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Stephen%20Dearsley’s%20Summer%20Of%20love

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