January and Febuary always surprise and always disappoint.
After the festive consumer hi jinks of Christmas and New Year they drag on interminably. Every year this is a surprise. I know a GP who cheerfully announced his elderly patients seemed to hang on for Christmas and New Year and succumb shortly after. Winter finds and claims them.
Thankfully this winter has been unusually mild with early flowering of snowdrops and hazel. We have a ladybird encamped in our bedroom .Despite the mild winter I will be glad when February ends . Billy Shakespeare always gives good copy. This is from his fifth sonnet:
" For never-resting time leads summer on,
To hideous winter and confounds him there;
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where"
Roll on the vernal equinox.
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