Slip gently from James Headfield's headlock, you sweltering Brenda's. Welcome to the Blind Buy podcast.

Happy New Year, you glorious cunts. We're in the midst of a weather warning here in Limerick City,

and we had snow. There was snow the other day. When it wasn't really snow, I don't know what I call it snow. I adore the empty silence of a snowstorm.

When you get a decent dose of snow in Ireland, the world goes quiet. Everything stops because everybody

is relishing the snow. Like we get decent proper snow, maybe once every five years.

And we were supposed to get this yesterday, so as soon as it began to descend,

I ran outside to stare up at the sky.

And I knew by the way it was descending that it was disappointing snow.

It was a type of slithery grey sleet that fell like a dying bird and I watched it dissolve

on dog shit so it's not real snow, it's not the fluffy, crunchy stuff that lands with, like a soft puffing noise. So we got a lot of

this pathetic snow that very quickly turned into a kind of tarmacadam slush. But that slush,

that slush melted and now it's like minus four degrees so the slush has turned into a very dangerous ice.

Now if you're from Canada or somewhere, you're probably laughing at me because minus four degrees is nothing to you.

But we don't have the infrastructure to deal with snow and ice in Ireland so the government just freaks out and tells everyone to stay at home.

Now I've spoken about this particular ice. I think the last four years.

We exist in a very strange period because we are witnessing climate change in real time.

Every year I experience weather conditions that didn't exist when I was a kid

and this incredibly slippy, sweaty ice, I've only started to see this in the past four years.

Like even yesterday for instance, we're in the middle of this orange warning and the government

are telling people not to leave their homes or take unnecessary

journeys. But also my weather app told me that it was the hottest recorded temperature for that

day on record. So it's freezing at nighttime. But then the daytimes are weirdly warm. So you get this

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