January

Now the Christmas decorations are down...

The family put the decorations away last night to await next Christmas. In a way I'm glad the forced jollity of December has gone and I don't have to pretend anymore. Christmas is for children anyway not us grumpies, my grandson's first Christmas and he was spoilt rotten, I'm glad though because he is my darling boy.

A friend from work phoned yesterday just to catch me up on gossip, I was interested in the goings on at my workplace but I'm far from ready to go back to the 9-5 workmill.

 Having a depressive episode in the winter is not so great, the sun on my back and all that daylight might make go out to get some fresh air, I haven't gone outside for 3 weeks, not that I think I am missing much,  it's dank, miserable weather out there anyway. The weather I suppose matches my mood. In January the daylight is short, spring sems far far away and everything is grey, brown, murky, cold. It reminds me of the first verse of Christina Rossetti's poem 'In the bleak midwinter' http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238450 though of course Rossetti's poem does go to talk of the nativity scene amd God and all that,  something I don't believe in.

So January what do you offer?