Writing to winter: December 5th

Dear Winter, 

Today's been a long and busy day; so much to do but so little time, or at least that's how it felt! I've got exams, jobs and work all coming out of my ears and for a couple of minutes I even believed that I was driving myself crazy - before I realised that I'd done that years ago! I managed to cross off one of my many important tasks to do this month and feel pretty glad that I have. 

On the way home I decided to pick up a quick starbucks so made my usual order 'small salted caramel hot chocolate with soya milk' and was absolutely ecstatic when they gave me a large because they'd ran out of small AND medium paper cups! It was like a small reward for all of the work I've been putting into things at the moment and came at exactly the right time for me! 

I know that this is just a small example that shows good things do happen when you work hard. Like when you bring up snow Winter. It must take so much time and effort to gather the energy to give up that soft blanket of cotton wool, but when you do, you get to see so many children happy and playing. And that's when you get your reward! 

Keep smiling, 

Kathryn x

Writing to winter: December 4th

Dear Winter, 

I'm not sure where today's letter is going to take us so I think we'll just have to roll with it if that's okay. 

So a lot of my random inspiration for posts comes from my surroundings; from people around me and from my experiences. But the times when I seem to get this written down well I am in one of two places. I'm only going to talk about one of those today, the other will come in good time, but the first one is when I'm travelling. I frequently write blog posts sat in the back of the car as a way of blocking out what's going on around me; it's a great escape strategy! I find that it helps time to pass super quickly and I feel like I've used my time kind of productively. 

But that's not quite what I want this letter to explore Winter. Recently, I've been taking driving lessons and even have my test booked! At first I really didn't want to start but now I'm kind of glad that I did because I love the feeling of freedom; the idea that very soon, I could take myself absolutely anywhere! I've already been lucky enough to see so many different places and cultures but I don't want to stop there. There are so many more places that I want to visit! 

I know it's hard for you because you've got such a strict routine to stick to but if you could go to anywhere that you haven't been Winter, where would it be? And where would you advise me to go? Sometimes I wonder if there's any point staying in one place when there's so much more to see. I know I'm a homebird and I'll always end up back in my own little village but what you do in between being where you're comfortable can really change the world if you do it well so with all of the freedom in the world, what would you do? 

Keep smiling, 

Kathryn x