Ironically, it wasn't that bad when I had to make my way through cold and snow after the seven-hours cover... Hm, I definitely like covering - it's a nice chance to get to know how others live and work, what they do and what could help them progress. It's something you'll never learn until you try. It could be a bit gruelling, of course, and I recon a few that were, but thankfully not this time. Yes! this one was trully fantastic, like meeting up with people from another world - hard-working, motivated, unbelievably helpful towards each other and myself.
So, cold and snow are not everything that matters. What gives the feeling of the approaching winter (alas! some could say, it began ages ago!)? How could I not know the answer is always in Word? So, if logically winter is cold and snow, linguistically it might look like the following:
In a way, I might say I came in from the cold and had high expectations but was snowed under with vaguely related stuff. It was cold comfort to be told that's how these fat cats cold fish treat each and every one - in cold blood giving newbies the cold shoulder. Little wonder, I got cold feet when instead of letting you an ear somebody poured cold water you. Admittedly, they are offering something I would have liked to do before but now, in the cold of the day, it really leaves me cold.
Doesn't it feel freezing cold? That is winter, innit?
It always makes me wonder how venerable we are and, more importantly, where to seek the way out. It might be very personal indeed, but isn't now the right season to hibernate? I must have been a hibernating animal in the past as I am constantly on the lookout for my own hibernaculum. I was hoping to find it here, seems no way...
I think I will be moving to paper now. The two paper things I have bought are marvellous, each in its own way and I am still in two minds as how to use them both. And yes, yesterday looked very much like the last straw... so on the move...
and I don't really know till when...
ps. We might be through Christmas already but are still in for the Nativity, for sure we are...