Tuesday 9 November 2021

Gloom

 I'm beginning to understand how it is to live in a country with dreary grey winter weather. How people can suffer from SAD.


We have had endless, it seems to me, days of foggy chilly mornings, misty days with just a glimpse of midday sun. Then chilly damp foggy evenings. Long long evenings. It's dark outside but it's only 6pm. How can that be.


Yet it's not cold enough for a friendly fire. Some of that dust they say is Saharan dust.  It just seems dull and cheerless and chilly.


We need a good north wind to blow all that greyness away and let the sun shine again.


And that damn covid thing is hanging around as well. Cases have gone from 1,000 a day to over 8,000. We should be getting our third vaccine jab in a few days.


Gloom gloom go away.

Don't come back another day



9 comments:

  1. 8,000 a day….on the island or the whole of Greece? That’s a huge number. Delta came to Victoria and won’t go away either. The government opened up accepting the consequences- we’re averaging 1000 per day but it’s going down slowly…very slowly

    Did you mean a northerly (from the north bringing cold air) or a southerly from the south with hopefully nice warm air?

    Down here our northerlies (usually very strong) can be a problem on hot hot days….they make everyone grumpy and fan bushfires.

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  2. Poros has only 4,000 population so it's for the whole of Greece.
    Southerlies bring warm winds from the Sahara . That's why we have that damn dust.
    Northerlies bring cold winds from the Russian steppe . At the momet that's just what we need.
    2 hours later I woke up to sunshine , clear skies and a strong north wind.
    So much for SAD

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  3. Ha, sounds like you are experiencing our kind of weather. Just be thankful that yours doesn't last for 6 months like ours 😁

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    1. Yes. I seem to have forgotten what winters like here. Got used to that endless darn sunshine.
      And now here it is again. As expected

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  4. 8000 for the whole of Greece isn't many. 10 million population. Get a grip on things Linda. Most of them will hardly be much more ill than a cold. I think it is about time stats were banned. I have had three jabsn for the sake of keeping up my part of the bargain. That is that is far as I am concerned and hopefully all the promises about travel will one day happen and testing will vanish for ever. I don't think you will ever suffer from SAD, you are always happy.

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    1. No I'll never be sad, hopefully. 8,000 probably isn't much but the hospital's seem to be splitting at their seams. I shouldn't watch the damn news. Gloom and doom.
      I wasn't going to write about damn covid again. It was that predawn restlessness and the expectation of more grey skies .
      Now all that's blown away

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  5. It has cooled a little but I'm so looking forward to being able to put a blanket on the bed at last. I like bed to feel a bit snuggly.

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  6. I suffer from SAD. It’s two weeks, almost, into November and we are still having cold, wet and miserable weather

    I so long to bake in the hot sun might take the chill out of my bones

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  7. Gloom does get you down after a while.

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