I’m off on holiday for a week, which means this blog will be quiet for a week (other bloggers get software which allows them to line up blogs to publish in the future – I don’t).

It is a holiday on which I will be delivered by short haul aeroplane to a place where hydrocarbon-fueled machines will take me up mountains repeatedly, to no discernable purpose other than my own pleasure.

It always surprises me how un-green skiing as an activity is. Given that skiiers/snowboarders love skiing/snowboarding, you might have thought that they would care a bit more about the environment – after all, the whole pasttime would be impossible in most places with only a few degrees of climate change. But the patio heaters still blaze away at the apres ski venues so that people can sit outside in a cold place for an extra hour.

I guess it’s just another example of wilful blindness to the possible consequences/putting ones own interests first. I can’t claim to be any different on that, to my shame.