Back On The Horse

January 2nd, must be the most hated date on the calender. The day when most people, if they are anything like me, wake up to the sound of an alarm clock for the first time since before Christmas. Ten days spent lying in and getting up pretty much when you feel like shattered by the shrill sounds of the alarm clock. Now I know how Quasimodo felt!

The holiday season comes around every year full of promise and good cheer and leaves with a feeling of emptiness in its wake. The longing and looking forward replaced with the thought of another three or four months of winter cold, wet and maybe even snow still to come. Will the summer ever arrive and at least bring with it the couple of weeks of holiday and sun.

Life seems to be a long line of waiting for things that are over pretty much before they are begun. Do you remember how you felt the day you finished for the holidays before Christmas? The plans of things you were going to do, places your were going to visit and the fun you were going to have with the time away from work. Although it was fun while it lasted that is the precise nature of the problem, it just doesn't last long enough.

Most of us have to spend too many weeks of the year working to be able to afford the couple of weeks each year when we can have fun and do pretty much as we please.

So why am I telling you this? Have I found the answer to the problem?

No, alas I do not have the answer I, like everyone else, must go along with the flow of another year.

Unless... does anyone know what time the tills close for the Wednesday National Lottery Draw?