I love the week between Christmas and New Year. Peace descends and all the frantic socialising, cooking, shopping, present-wrapping and frenetic organising is over. Everyone has retreated to their own homes to lie low and eat their Christmas chocolates undisturbed. People in the media refer to this time as ‘Twixtmas’, but I’ve never heard anyone…
Month: December 2019
Are Christmas songs bad for your mental health?
I think that the secret to enjoying Christmas is, like everything else in life, managing your expectations. I have modest expectations of the holiday season – I think the weather will probably be damp and grey, but I will eat some nice chocolates and enjoy the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special. The only way to…
Travel whims
Sometimes I wonder why people choose to travel at all. If you’re travelling for work or visiting people, fair enough, but why would you put yourself through all that hassle without a good reason? If I’m honest, travelling is enormously inconvenient and frequently uncomfortable as well. Unless you’re fabulously wealthy of course, which most of…
My favourite things
With dire warnings of climate catastrophes hanging over us and the upcoming UK elections, with the results ushering in who knows what calamitous state of affairs, my brain is desperately seeking a ray of light to get me through this darkest of months. So, I came over all Julie Andrews and decided to compile a…