Some Positive Thoughts on Winter

There I was off cycling today, and I was thinking to myself I could keep running the bike into the middle of October maybe. After that, the only exercise would be ever more miserable football under the floodlights. Freezing our tits off. Crying for our mammies until the tears themselves turned to frost and--

But, no. I've decided that this is going to be a positive post. Looking at the pros more so than the cons of winter.

I want to talk about roaring fires, with no mention of the leaping shadows behind or the sinister, hollow stare of the piggy bank on the mantlepiece. You'll hear no complaints from me that I have run out of Cons to go to, or any talk of the pit in my heart where daily, devils squat to fill it with their ordure.

No. I want you to share with you, wise readers, what chilly joys are possible. A long, long list of pleasures unlikely to result in too many doctors' appointments. A veritable cornucopia of... "delights" may be too strong a word... but you will at least read here about several not-bads that can be associated with the darker months of the year in this, the most northerly hemisphere on the entire planet.

I hope you're ready for this! I hope--

Wait! That's the door. It's just a masked man. I'll be right back.