Came back to work today after a disappointing Xmas (supposed to fly to Edinburgh but was fogbound in Norwich and had to return home with the wife and kids to an empty house with nothing in the fridge/larder and £100 lighter due to the taxi fares to/from the airport[V]) and it's dark, wet and cold.[V]
I don't think I can make it through to Spring without, as my Granny would say, "taking to [my] bed" for a prolonged spell.
Sorry to whinge but I feel really low...........
Happiness and light to you all,
'Chopper'
I saw her once, one little while, and then no more:
’Twas Eden’s light on Earth a while, and then no more.
Amid the throng she passed along the meadow-floor:
Spring seemed to smile on Earth awhile, and then no more;
But whence she came, which way she went, what garb she wore
I noted not; I gazed a while, and then no more!
James Clarence Mangan 1803 - 1849