Return to Normality

Well, it's the last night of the holidays. We are into the new year. Resolutions have been made and some broken already. I really should eat less chocolate. Too many truffles have passed these lips in the past fortnight.

There has been too much sitting about; too much snow, too much ice; too much sleeping.

After all the stress of the last minute Christmas shopping, Christmas Day has been and gone; presents exchanged; two weeks gone in a flash.

It has been so cold I feel I should hibernate. We have had snow and ice for more than two weeks and there's more to come if the weather forecasters are to be believed.

Footpaths and roads are still covered in snow and ungritted. The loch is frozen. The birds flock to our snow covered garden every day in search of food.

Back to work tomorrow.

Back to normality?