Monday 24 January 2011

Bleak

Not me particularly although I am not exactly bouncing off the walls, no, the landscape.  Totally bleak.  We have been in this part of the UK since we moved here from SA so what's different?  Last year this time I was rushing from interview to interview, the excitement of just moving here and all that goes with it and last year it was still snowing.  Snow such pretty stuff but when it melts it leaves behind it a blackened mushy landscape that is just not pretty at all.  When the snow melts it also exposes litter, strange I know but after the prettiness of the snow the shock of the litter that it has covered over for weeks on end and then there are the dog poos that disappear into the snow when they are deposited but are still there when the snow melts.  I told you it's bleak.


I think I have a little dose of SAD as I am really looking forward to some warmer weather and within 2 months the landscape is going to start looking gorgeous.  Where we live it is farmland, it is the flatest part of the UK so it is used for crops and all the fields are brown at the moment so no pretty green fields with fat black and white cows just the odd starving rabbit trying to find a meal.
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  1. Stefanie24 January 2011 at 11:24

    So sorry that the weather and landscape is having an impact on your outlook. I think that's why I know Europe wouldn't be the place for me. Got too depressed in our dark, gloomy previous house.
    Sending you some warm, happy blessings,

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  2. clare24 January 2011 at 11:33

    Thanks Steph, summer is on the way and we are starting to notice the change in sunset, Erin normally walks home in the dark from the bus stop and today she came home in the light. x

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  3. Helga Hansen24 January 2011 at 12:38

    Once the daffodils start appearing, you'll know it's going to get better - and of course, the clocks going forward will help as well! :) Hope you and the family are all keeping well x

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  4. Valkyrie24 January 2011 at 23:34

    Aaah, but Springtime will be absolutely glorious right? Makes a real difference have a real sense of four seasons I think. Rather than the 6 months of (too hot) here, and 6 months of Winter here. I remember particularly when my in laws called us - early last Spring (their spring) I could hear the birds chirping in the background :)

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  5. Andrea25 January 2011 at 13:23

    I so so get this, there is very little pretty about England at the end of a long hard winter, but today my first daf's showed their gorgeous green shoots above the soil and I just KNOW it is going to be an AMAZING spring. Days are getting longer...it is all downhill to Summer I tell you xxx

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  6. Anonymous26 January 2011 at 03:35

    All this talk about spring makes me jealous!

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