The view from my bedroom window last week
OK so I know that the title of this post is from a very famous Christmas carol and that the festive period is well and truly over, but for me I feel like I am in the very middle of winter and winter is bleak to me. It is my friends, the January blues.I'm a real sufferer of the January blues. Winter and I are not good bed fellows and by the middle/end of February I am climbing the walls as I can no longer face another day of 15 layers, the temperature being in single figures, and the gray dank drizzle that all signify winter.
Where I am, we have had weeks of rain; meaning floods and mud everywhere, followed by a week of snow which was lovely for all of five minutes before it froze and getting around was a nightmare and now we are back to lashing rain, howling gales and even more mud.
So instead of being a miserable old so and so which I usually am at this time of year, I've decided to count my blessings and think what I can do which will bring me out of my January misery. So......
- I am going to enjoy snuggling down in front of the fire, with a good book or two
- I am going to dance wildly and stupidly around my living room to some old '80s classics
- Have more date nights at the cinema, after all once you are in the cinema you can't tell what season it currently is! (plus I always get pic n mix!)
- Try and get into baking more - baking and I are also not the best of friends
- Start looking at color charts as I fancy a change to some of my home decor
- Have a great big hot chocolate (now and then) with all the trimmings, you know marshmallows, chocolate sprinkles and lashings of squirty cream.
