17 November 2005
Lousy weather
A brief business trip to Brussels today. The weather was dreadful. Sudden heavy downpours and generally grey skies. The weather always seems to be bad in Brussels, similar to London but always worse.
If it’s hot in London, it’s unbearably hot in Brussels. If it’s cold in London, in Brussels it’s freezing. Windy weather becomes stormy, rain becomes torrential. I don’t know why it’s always like London but worse, but that’s the way it always seems.
Maybe our Eurosceptic friends have an explanation. Yet another europlot against the British, perhaps.
If it’s hot in London, it’s unbearably hot in Brussels. If it’s cold in London, in Brussels it’s freezing. Windy weather becomes stormy, rain becomes torrential. I don’t know why it’s always like London but worse, but that’s the way it always seems.
Maybe our Eurosceptic friends have an explanation. Yet another europlot against the British, perhaps.
Posted by Richard Laming at 19:11
I am not sure that I have much constructive to say about Brussels weather except that it cost Napoleon the battle of Waterloo (heavy rain meant the French guns could not be positioned until relatively late with the result that the battle started a good three hours behind schedule, as it were, - mind you has any European engagement ever started on time? - allowing Blucher to catch up with Wellington) and that might give me the opportunity to raise my unorthodox view of history viz that it mattered not one jot who won the battle of Waterloo for history would have unwound in much the same way even to the extent of the Bourbon restoration, if Napoleon had won. He wouldn't even have left France in 1815 had he not been threatened by an allied force.
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