Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

Is it just me or does anyone else love winter this much. It?s so fresh outside and even though it pished rain ALL day yesterday I still love it. Even though its dark when I get up and dark when I am on my way home from work I still love it. I love walking in the crispy leaves, and the smell of Halloween in the air (yes they are still letting off the fireworks even though its mid November, those clever people!) and I can have the fire on and not feel bad about getting into bed early or having a ?blankies? or getting into my PJ?s the second I get home from work. One reason I love it is that I get to wear my vast array of scarves, hats, gloves and big jumpers and winter dresses and boots, summer is boring, its always the same, flip flop flap as far as I am concerned, you have people who really shouldn?t wearing WAY too little clothes and not to be bad, but no one wants to see that you know? Winter has so many things going for it, lovely snow, lovely refreshing rain, wind to blow away all the cobwebs left by calmer weather. I think at times I am obsessed with winter, I even have a tattoo of a snowflake on my leg done in white ink, so its very subtle, I love it, I forget its there sometimes even, but its mine, and no one else has the same one so its special. Loads of people get them in black and coloured inks which I feel is totally wrong, cause I mean, snow is white right? Summer sunshine is the best, right now I am sitting in my office with the blinds partially closed, looking out at cranes and building going on and there is this amazing sunrise, and amazing clouds, and maybe it?s just me, but it?s too early to see it in the summer.

(*Artwork by Donough O'Malley www.pencilrobot.com)