Dear Winter
Okay. You've done what you came to do. You've stripped the leaves from the trees, chucked every kind of precipitation you can at us, tipped us over on frozen pavements and filled A&E departments with broken limbs. You've helped retailers sell woolly vests and those hideous furry boots, and prevented (some of) us from riding horses or going for walks. Plants have had the necessary hibernation period to help them do their thing in the spring. We have put on layers and shovelled snow and played our part, and if all this was intended to strengthen our characters, then I for one can assure you that my character is now very strong indeed. In other words, you have SERVED YOUR PURPOSE.
Now, please, please will you just go away?
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Dear Frances,
ReplyDeleteOkay, so you may think I've made my point, but after listening to people moaning about the effects global warming I thought I better nip back and make my presents known.
Yours
Mr De Winter
Point taken. But now, can you go, please?
DeleteThe novelty of winter is wearing off for me too.
ReplyDeleteDid you say NOVELTY, Patsy? Hmmmm.
DeleteI just slipped over on the ice - again!
ReplyDeleteOuch! Sympathies.
Delete...um, yeah...winter is the main reason I moved to sunny, warm Mexico.
ReplyDeletePlease can we all come and stay?
DeleteI too have had enough of the white stuff which is now dirty grey stuff. I don't want to be wishing away my life but roll on Spring.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to wish your life away, Lynne. Just say you want spring NOW!
DeleteYES! I've had enough now...be gone snow..and DO NOT get replaced with ice!
ReplyDeleteOurs has turned to water ; (
DeleteYes, agreed.
ReplyDeleteGood!
DeleteIt's all looking so grubby now. And I'm fed up with life outside the house being so difficult. Plus, the straps of the warm rug I ordered for our mini Shetland won't fit round her non-mini tummy.
ReplyDeleteBring her into the house and lend her a sweater?
DeleteMy Hebridean friends are complaining about lack of snowy photo opportunites.
ReplyDeletePS Why are you talking to some imaginary being in the sky Frances. Oh sorry. People do that all the time don't they.
GB, there is NOTHING imaginary about winter. Trust me.
DeleteI think you speak for us all, Frances :-) x
ReplyDeleteIf the end of January will mean the end of winter, I'm OK with that and can bear another week of it. What I truly hate is when there are some mild, spring-like days in between, and then - BAM! - winter comes back and kills every tiny bud and every little animal for miles around.
ReplyDeleteIt's teasing us, Meike.
DeleteYou've forgotten the local cheering remark about the cold ( minus 5C today ).
ReplyDelete"This'll kill all the viruses !"
And us , too , if it doesn't thaw soon ...