This is the new post, same as the old post

It may be that it seems you've seen this post before. And that's the point. It's still cold.

There's still lots of snow.

The barbecues are still buried.

If I clear the lane on Saturday so it looks like this:

then the snow blows in overnight and it's back to looking like this:

It's the relentlessness of the winter that wears you down. All that putting on of layers and taking off of layers. The inability to enjoy being outside. The feeling of being tired when all you did was shiver in the car driving to work. The way your skin has dried up and is dropping off in chunks. February might be the longest month.