Taking down the decorations

Don’t you just hate it when the Christmas decorations come down. No longer do you get to switch the twinkling lights on as you sit down for a crafty mince pie. The living room feels dark again and missing the splashes of reds and green of Christmas.

But then I sit down after they’ve all been packed away safely for another year, happy with my ‘just cleaned’ house, and think of longer days, more walks through the forests, along the rivers and around the vineyards. There’s a light fluttering of snow today, with temperatures hanging around zero during the day and -2°c at night. I’m looking forward to being wrapped up and walking in the chilled air.

I’m not a New Years resolution sort of person, but I do make new commitments to myself at this time of year, I think it’s just because you start to think of the months ahead - maybe that’s the same thing I hear you say - for me making a personal commitment is something you want to do, and therefore more likely to achieve it, as opposed to a new resolution. Anyway, the commitment is to find moments to take a walk and find more to see.