Winter

Winter is dragging this year, January seems to have gone on and on for twice as long as usual. The short cold drab days and the exceedingly long dark freezing nights seem endless. I cannot stand dark mornings in the winter months. It just does not feel right getting up when it is dark. My body is telling me that it's dark, so go back to sleep, and my brain is nagging that I must wake up or I will be late. When it's dark and cold and the wind is howling it is just common sense to stay in my nice warm comfy and cozy bed, and so I do, for as long as is possible. In fact I stay there for every available second that I can.

Today when my alarm clock went off, I snoozed it in the vain hope that in 8 minutes time the sun would be shining and the sky would be blue. It dutifully buzzed 8 minutes later, and through one half opened eye I bashed at it until it was silenced. My half opened eye scanned the darkness in the room, and I once again had to give myself a pep talk to get out of bed. Now this pep talk is currently a daily ritual, and goes something like this......

" Ok you HAVE to get up, your hair needs washing, you take ages to have a clothes crisis, and you can have an extra two minutes in the shower, a cup of tea, and for a change, breakfast" . Then a funny little thing deep in my brain talks back to me and says, sod that! It's cold and dark and you can have an extra few minutes in your lovely soft warm cozy comfortable melt itself around you bed.

And I do. Except I can't remember the last time it was 10 minutes extra......oh no not me I milk it for all its worth and take full advantage of every single second of my naughty few minutes extra. And then of course the inevitable happens. I have way overslept. The 10 minutes somehow turned into an hour. I have woken up in a panic, jumped out of bed, dived in the shower, blasted my hair, dressed in the first thing that fits, slapped on the make-up, missed out on the tea, and the breakfast, run to the car, drive too fast and finally arrive at my destination with seconds to spare, in a panic having a hot flush and gagging for a cuppa!!!

Roll on summer!!