Denis: When nature calls

Mar 16 2009 By Denis Kilcommons

The other big polluters – China, Russia, and India among them – are developing their economies and unlikely to cut back because of something that may happen in 100 years time.

We in Britain, meanwhile, will continue to use energy-saving light bulbs, divide our rubbish between black and green bins and put our bottles in the bottle bank.

There is, of course, a body of opinion that doesn’t believe global warming is such a problem. They say the doomsday stuff is over-hyped.

But, just in case, maybe we would be better off building a high wall round the high bits of our nation, learning how to sail a boat and moving the capital from the soon to be submerged London to somewhere with better elevation.

Huddersfield sounds good.

KATHLEEN Parr of Marsh asks, do you know the difference between a cat and a colon?

A cat has claws on the end of its paws and a colon has a pause at the end of its clause.

READER Don Brown was interested in the piece I wrote about patron saints and, in particular, that mine own Saint Denis was the patron saint of headaches.

"Is this the giving or relieving of them?" he asks. "And have you ever thought you may have this power? I think we should be told."