Watch "Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry - Where is the Lid?" on YouTube
When you click the link above, you'll understand. Some things defy prose and need to be sung. Like a spot of bloody sunshine.
It just so happens that in a world filled up with banalities, our little country seems a much more wonderful place when sun makes its overdue return, though is nonetheless less likely to stay for a week like Billy Connolly and even less likely to give out to photographers.
In a week where carbon dioxide levels reached 400ppm, when the earth's climate is projected to be at prehistoric heights by the end of the century, Ireland remains damper the dampy dampington, the dampest fish on the dampest fishtank in the parish of St. Fluich.
I'll happily take any inkling of this and burst into song when the weather's like today.
