16 Things I love and hate about winter in equal measure

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Wrapping up with lots of layers and being all snuggly and warm

X​Walking onto the tube or into a shop and having to shed and somehow carry all these layers as shops have the heating on full blast and the tube is a sweat box

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The dark nights and warm fires with a mug of hot chocolate

X​The fact it gets dark at 4.30pm and you have to light the house up like Blackpool illuminations to see anything.

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Snow – what’s not to love! Skiing on fresh powder –mwah bellisima.

X​Ice and rain – meh not so great. Soggy flats, having to de-ice car, floods, delayed trains – you name it’s happened this winter. Although it rains frequently in Britain regardless of the season so it’s a bit disingenuous of me to put it in this list.

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All that yummy hearty winter food – roast dinners, cottage pie, sticky toffee pudding.

X​All that winter weight you put on because of said food!

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Christmas – being jolly, seeing friends and celebrating the good in your life with the ones that matter to you.

X​The amount said celebration costs and how consequently hard January is to get through.

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January being a time for new beginnings thanks to NewYear’s resolutions

X​Dry January – where your friends are miserable because they won’t have just one glass of wine and won’t meet up with you for fear of being tempted

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No mosquitos, wasps or other biting things

X​The house crawls with things like Daddy long legs

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Evening in pampering yourself with face masks, doing manicures and soaking in the tub.

X​Chapped lips – see other post

To be honest without a proper winter like the one I have described above I don’t think I would appreciate the summer anywhere near as much. I’m not a big boiling heat person. I have lily white English skin which tends to burn before remotely bronzing and I hate sleeping without a duvet.

Winter for all your faults I love you! However clocks feel free to change soon and sun please stay out a little longer….