Lighting the way to a darker future

Damien Enright contemplates a few of the wonders we are set to eradicate

A GREY Christmas we had of it, this year, in terms of weather, although indoors we enjoyed the usual glow of bonhomie and warm fires, warmed wine and blazing Christmas pudding.

Outside, it was universally dull and windy, not a spark of light except for the animated Santas and reindeers on front lawns and rooftops and, in some cases, a thousand lights (I exaggerate not) winking in synch from the surrounding shrubberies and trees. All this should guarantee us many more mild, warm, dull, grey Christmases to come. Neighbours are expending kilowattages in efforts to outdo one another. What will the lit-up Santas mean when our children will never have seen snow?