Goodbye Autumn, hello, my ol' misery-bearing friend, Winter.
Being the type of person who prefers the weather to be cooler - I absolutely dread winter. This will be my third winter in London but I do not look forward to it anymore than the first one. The adage of one "getting used to it" does not apply to winter weather. I mean, it is one thing to prefer being in 20C with air conditioning and it is another to be walking Josiah to nursery in the rain with temperatures about 10C.
Goodbye short sleeved tops, shorts, sandals. Hello to bulky jackets, gloves, scarves, boots, umbrella, hat, heater and the dreaded flu!
Being the type of person who is normally not so flu prone, this round with me having to walk Josiah to nursery and working up a sweat in cold, windy weather has made fall ill at least three times to date. And this cold weather will be here until March or April next year.
Goodbye to walking in the park at 6pm. Hello to staying in two days in a row (my maximum stay-in record so far) The park now closes at 4.15pm and the playground at 3.45pm. Why? Because it is pitch black by then and obviously no one wants to go to the park but ME??!!
Can you see why people get Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) here? I would be S.A.D too.... apparently the lack of sunlight and miserable weather makes people depressed. You don't say.
Anyhow, I am just ranting about the weather here so when I finally go back to sunnier days, I would relish it and remember how miserable it is to be cold almost 5 months of the year.
Remember how troublesome it is to have to layer up like a blimp and still feel cold.
Remember how Josiah hates to be layered up or wear any hat/glove/scarf making it twice as hard for me to even think about going anywhere knowing that he might catch a cold.
I miss home so very, very much.
Of course London is not home to me. It never was and I tried to make it home. But every time I am once again caught in the rain, cold and miserable with no bus in sight. All I want is to go home.
I think I have SAD - what do you think?
Oops, I forgot that I was going to blog about the Winter Wonderland. Yes, folks, there are some upside to winter. One of our favourite is visiting the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, having a hot fresh German sausage and hot chocolate whilst watching people go ice skating and sit in the rides. This year, we went in the afternoon right after a heavy downpour so there wasn't such a big crowd which was fine with us. We got our sausages and Shaun even had a corn on a stick. Josiah refused to take any rides so we did not stay too long. My highlight was the yummy sausage and the singing reindeer! Check him out at...
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