On Friday Fives About Winter

[danieldwilliam]

1. What are your feelings about winter?

I'm not averse to winter. I live in Scotland. I grew up in northern Scotland. Winter here is dark and cold but often beautiful and refreshingly crisp. I currently look forward to winter. I'd much rather be cold and dry than wet. And I get three weeks off at Christmas. So winter is a time when I engaged in traditional northern European activities of story-telling (or movie watching) and drinking and sitting round the fire.

So I like the winter.

That said, I could live with an eternal Scottish summer in a way that I couldn't do with a Scottish winter.

2. What is your go-to drink in the winter? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)

Winter is a time for whisky,  full-bodied red wine and port. Or hot chocolate.

3. What are your favorite things about the winter?

The bright blue skies and the time off. The Strictly Come Dancing final. Hogmaney and Lithmas. Seeing the kids together for a week or two.

4. How do you deal with the wintry blues?

I don't find I'm affected by them. Aberdeen, where I grew up, has a very instance of Seasonal Affective Disorder, because it has lots of incomers and dark winters. I myself do not suffer. At all.

5. What are your least favorite things about the winter?

Not having found the time to sweep up the leaves from autumn and the inevitable disappointment of the Doctor Who Christmas or New Year Day 's episode