Roll On Summer

I got back from the Antarctic about three weeks ago, I think, I am still having trouble keeping track of time sometimes. It still is winter here, but it isn't really, there is a sense of spring in the air. It isn't really cold anymore, the Godwits are back (1500 in Geijssel's wetland, I read this morning), and the shops are full of the new summer fashion and it is great. I have to confess to buying yet another skirt and top today. And this is the woman who for several years went shopping for clothes twice a year, and only when the holes in her jeans were so big wearing them was becoming positively indecent. For the last couple of years that has been changing again and I am back to wearing dresses and skirts in the summer. Now I finally have a womens bike again I can wear them to work too. I have lost some weight over the past couple of months for all sorts of reasons, and the great thing is that I now fit into all of last year's new clothes again too. So, roll on the summer, I say, I'm ready for it this year. I'm looking forward to the sunshine, the bright colours, the liveliness in the city, and to not wearing at least three layers of clothing all the time.