Mentalechoes

I was made painfully aware of the fact that the European Summer has passed this morning when I woke up to a dull grey lightless day, heavy with mist and a real nip in the air. It’s still strange to me to feel the weather getting colder as we get closer to christmas and New Year. Christmas day is all about your grandmother slapping suncream on your face to stop it getting burned, and drinking beers outside with the relatives as you watch an uncle burn all the sausages on the barbeque. It’s about opening up presents and playing backyard cricket in your shorts and bare feet, and trying to stay cool in 30 degree heat. Even after 7 years it still feels strange to have a cold christmas, especially if there is snow!

This year I hope we don’t have one of those stupid cold spells where we get a blizzard that dumps a meter of snow on the ground, because believe me, it is the hardest thing in the world trying to ride a push bike on roads covered in snow and ice. I am not very good at the cold. Safe to say for me I could do without it. I love autumn, but I would prefer spring to come after autumn and then go straight back to summer again. If we could skip the cold period between December to March, that would suit me fine.

Somehow though, I have the feeling it’s going to be a bitch of a winter!

Padwanna.