Are
you wearing the right trousers today? Apologies to listeners wearing skirts or
dresses, but wearing the right trousers can be a pretty big deal. Personally I seem
to dress for yesterday; so the day a heat wave ends, I’m in shorts, and after a
storm, I’m all geared up for it! Perhaps Bristol’s most famous trousers are the
red ones worn by Mayor George Ferguson, except that just at the moment he’s
wearing green to celebrate Bristol becoming green capital in 2015. But are
these the right trousers? If the recent decision to halt the roll out of
parking zones and the battle crazy that will probably meet the suggestion of a central
Bristol low emission zone are anything to go by, perhaps we should doubt it.
Tomorrow
is actually quite specifically “wrong trousers day”. A day when in celebration of Bristol’s other
great innovators, Wallace and Gromit, people are invited to wear the wackiest
trousers possible to raise money for sick children in hospitals and hospices
around the country. So by the sound of
it, the right trousers today may well be the wrong ones tomorrow! You see just
like the weather, things do change. So
George’s green trousers and Bristol’s status as Green Capital may act like a
weather warning; change is coming and we need to get ready. I for one think
green are the right trousers to wear. As a recent convert to cycling I ask myself
why we all propel ourselves around using an engine when God in his goodness gave
us legs. So there’s my thought, wear the right trousers and take them out for a
walk or a run or a cycle sometime, and leave the wrong trousers of the
combustion engine at home if you possibly can!
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