It is my turn to post the revgals Friday Five.... and it is cold and grey and wet here today so....
Candlemass is over Christmas is well and truly past and February looks set to be its usual grey and cold self. Signs of spring are yet to emerge; if like me you long for them perhaps you need ways to get through these long dark days. So lets share a few tips for a cold and rainy/ snowy day....
1. Exercise, what do you do if you can't face getting out into the cold and damp?
Well we have a trampette, but recently I have tried to walk wherever I can in-spite of the gloom and damp. I need to get swimming again, and keep promising myself that I will, maybe this will be the incentive I need...
2. Food; time to comfort eat, or time to prepare your body for the coming spring/summer?
Well there are two answers to this, what I do and what I should be doing... ;-)
3. Brainpower; do you like me need to stave off depression, if so how do you do it?
I tackle this on two levels, I have a SAD's light in my office and that really helps, but I also find that music and exercise are both wonderful aids to lifting my spirits. Worship really helps to lift me out of myself, sometimes I have to deliberately choose to worship, and once I start I actually find that I begin to do it!
4. How about a story that lifts your spirits, is there a book or film that you return to to stave off the gloom?
Yes I return to the sunny and uplifting Alexander McCall-Smith's No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, both on DVD, and the books. There is something about the optimistic outlook and the warmth that spills from the screen and the pages that really serves to cheer me up!
5. Looking forward, do you have a favourite spring flower/ is there something that says spring is here more than anything else?
I have two, first the snowdrops that push through the soil round about this time of year are a sign of spring, but also freesias, I married in February ( almost 30 years ago) and my bouquet was a ball of brightly coloured freesias...
Bonus; post a poem/ piece of music that points to the coming spring......
Vivaldi- is there anything else????
