Swine Flu And The Quiet Sun.

Just when you thought that things couldnt get any worse what with the international economic crisis, the budget and rising unemployment, we now seem to be under threat from a new strain of flu originating in Mexican pigs. It seems that whilst we were all looking out for sick swans and dying ducks with the bird version oif influenza, the pig population of Mexico were brewing up a nasty little virus of their own to knock us all for six, if it gets established.

And if that was not enough to make you want to climb under the duvet we are now told that the sun has gone quiet. Rather then chucking out its usual huge balls of hot gas, our nearest star has gone into a quiet period with its surface resembling a field of waving corn. Apparently, this state of affairs is not good news for the residents of our planet as other periods of the sun going through a calm spell have coincided with major human upheavels such as the French revolution and the First World War.

So it looks as though, if you dont lose your job or go bankrupt, or get poleaxed by a pig virus, you might just get caught up in a war or revolution due to disturbances in the magnetic field of the sun having a funny effect on human behaviour.

That duvet is looking very inviting again.