Remember the song a couple of years ago, based on a speech that someone gave to a graduating class? I think it starts.. 'Ladies and gentlemen, if I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.....'
Well here are a couple of photos to show exactly why this is good advice. This young Irish lady took herself off to a holiday in Spain, and thought it best to sit out in the midday sun. She claimed she had factor 50 on, and that she was only out in the sun for 10 minutes, but as my hero Dr House says, ' All patients lie'. The woman could hardly walk!
The problem with a country like Ireland (where the sun hardly ever shines) is that when it does get sunshine, everyone goes completely mad and takes off all the layers and roasts themselves outside. The same happens when they go off on their annual trek to Spain/Portugal/Lanzarote/anywhere with a normal amount of sunshine hours per year.
Easily sorted out with some anti inflammatories and cold packs and aqeuous cream, my main advice to this woman was avoid the sun. For the rest of her life!
Working in ER in the UK when the Poms have been desporting themselves in the sun is like being a sous-chef at a cannibals braai!
ReplyDeleteI remember visiting England for the first time as a teenager and taking pictures of the English, half naked and rare red on the lawns of all the parks. We thought it the funniest, most pathetic thing.
ReplyDeleteThen again - my husband, who spent 15 years brown and living in the sun of the Caribbean, comes to SA after three years in British Columbia, does not put sunscreen on properly - sort of slaps Factor 40 around to humour me, and comes out looking like Stripey.
Sun makes the deprived act funny.
My silly relatives from the Northeast US come to visit us in the Southeast US and will not wear sunscreen. It is their vacation and they want to turn their lily white Scot/Irish/German skin, tan.
ReplyDeleteWell... they only turn beet red and in pain. When will they learn.
I on the other hand wear sunscreen head to toe every day of the year and still cannot get rid of the tan lines now that I no longer work an office job and live in a more southern climate.
At least I don't turn red but I'm still probaly just as prone to the skin cancer :-(
Sad.
damn. no chance she'll be entering another Miss Hot Legs contest.
ReplyDelete