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Winter is coming to the northern part of the world. (It’s here!). Do you have any plans, or do you prefer to hide from the cold?

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I love the winter – it’s probably my most favourite time of the year. In the part of the UK where I live, snow is sadly very infrequent. Personally, that’s a real shame. I’m lucky enough to work primarily from home, as is my wife, so that makes a big snowstorm less troublesome. I’d love a whiteout blizzard if I’m honest.

But I’ll take a cold, crisp day with bright blue sky as far as the eye can see. I love getting bundled up in my coat, hat and gloves and taking a walk in frost-blanketed fields, breath pluming in the frigid air. Add in that winter in the Northern hemisphere coincides with Christmas, and it combines to make me a very happy boy.

Seeing Christmas decorations outside houses and businesses is wonderful, as is the atmosphere in town. Brass bands playing festive music, events, and Christmas lights all make for a season I eagerly anticipate every year. And as the sun sets nice and early, I love to settle in by the light of my Christmas tree, with a Christmas film or the Darts World Championship on the TV, with a Christmas murder book, nice and cosy.