tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18554411.post6839354671531981283..comments2024-03-29T11:14:17.959+00:00Comments on Sue Hepworth: OK, if you must know…Sue Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15371516958537364663noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18554411.post-24607687122132599082012-02-17T09:37:39.350+00:002012-02-17T09:37:39.350+00:00Thanks for the helpful advice, Margaret. Though I ...Thanks for the helpful advice, Margaret. Though I always surround myself with colour anyway.Sue Hepworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15371516958537364663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18554411.post-2923708773177491262012-02-16T10:36:14.026+00:002012-02-16T10:36:14.026+00:00I didn't use to like February, but I realized ...I didn't use to like February, but I realized that (where we live) by the end of January I didn't have to put the headlamps of the car on when I collected husband from work (this before his retriement in 1998). That was the first thing which cheered me. Not that I had to put them on to drive us home, that didn't matter. It was the first indication that spring was coming and, in Devon, it wasn't unusual to find primroses in the garden in January, either. <br />The next thing which stopped me hating February was that a Scottish friend once said that she used to save up little treats for herself which she would buy during the year to 'get her through' the dreich days of winter; a new CD, a new paperback book, a bar of luxury chocolate, some scented bath oil, that sort of thing, which she would keep in a basket for the purpose and just take something out on a dark winter's day and enjoy it. So I recommend doing the same. Even change some of your ornaments around in winter, put your pale things away and bring out copper/treen/rich colours, embrace the dark days and then the lighter ones will be with you sooner than you think. <br />Margaret Pgalanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190356279359463949noreply@blogger.com