Aside from being cold, the relentless rain has overwhelmed my senses since September. It's harder to manoeuvre when it's colder, now that we limit our radiator use. I wear thick clothes indoors instead. Energy companies and their love of profits push us to live in dire straits making it easy to wallow in misery.
The weather extremes are the facts of life. There's drought in California whilst parts of England are flooded. The night before and this morning, I was struggling to walk against the trajectory of the wind. Would I rather have the snow and fall flat in the mud? Winter is far from perky but we all know that the sun is shining brightly soon.
The upside to the chill is that there are less people in the streets. Our communal garden is devoid of noisy, shrieking kids as well as noisy, shrieking adults. But my little girl is thriving in the cold. She has a few minutes running around in the cold almost daily, having the space all to herself, doing her usual headless chicken bits.
I would surely miss the silence once the sun shines. Alas, three blocks are also going to get occupied in this new year, three blocks of new neighbours. One thing's certain in life, the world's getting smaller for tons amount of people.
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