What do you like to do on a winter`s evening?
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness - Carl Jung
To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul. - Ralph Waldo Trine
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It's all nice cosy when you are warm in your bed and you don't have to get up.....but I have to get up. Damn reliant children....
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So long as one remembers to get up in the morning.
Must try embedding those damn videos again.
Great pics, especially the first,makes me feel I ought to be a drinker, but my drinking days are over, never having begun. Don't recommend it please, it would kill me. True story.
It is indeed fortunate that I have never been a drinker, but what better than a hot chocolate to go to bed on, but frankly I'm usually well set to just jump in.
Enjoy the cuddle, I just know you have a teddy bear.
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I love season changes but I have to admit that I'm finding this Sydney winter sudden and bitter. It is nothing like an English winter though so I'm grateful for that. One my fave parts of winter is having a plump, soft quilt to dive under at night. There's nothing like it and of course my husband to cuddle. I also like clothes changes, wearing jackets, scarves and more layers. I just love change.
Last weekend we went to Kangaroo Valley with friends and our dogs and it was wonderful, so peaceful. It was cold though, about 3 degrees at night, phew! I would love to share some pics but I'm having troubles getting my phone pics compatible with Orble. I'm getting a new camera soon all those woes should soon be behind me and I'll be snapping away. I loved your pics, Ash.
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The ideal Winter's evening...
- All layered and BUNDLED... watching the waves around sunset with hot chocolate or chai
OR
- Vanilla candles burning... A bottle of nice red, a home-cooked meal... with a cake baking in the oven... and a good DVD
Put on a pair of shorts, a shirt, and run around outside all over the suburbs barefoot.
Stand on the footpath as trucks whizz past on the main roads, and get drenched. Play football with the puddles. Basically revisit childhood.
Then come home, have a shower, towel down, put dry clothes on, wonder why I don't do it more often, and write theses in my mind about adulthood versus childhood, insanity versus sanity, reality versus virtuality, and artificial pleausres versus real ones.
Then get stuck into the artificial pleasures.
David ...
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I'm certainly there about the writing thesis in my head about this vs that *ROFL* but not the running out in the hail and cold, voluntarily....Brrr! (well not often) *lol* ..and those artifical pleasures of winter? Aaah Merlot, Merlot, Merlot. No better season for it.
...and a good book, since my husband is usually at the SES (funnily enough), and my eldest daughter loves Nickleback. She has every song I think. I liked this one. My favourite is that one about the Hero that they wrote for Spiderman movie.
Hot baths and sleep are my other favourite winter night activitiy as I don't like to use resources for artificial heating ...
I like to re-watch old movies in bed sometimes too.
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Coming in to the house knowing I don't have to shovel any more snow for an hour or so.
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The only point of winter (for me) is snow, Rugby and my wardrobe!...can wear 5 layers at once!...as for the snuggling up and cuddling?...don't need to be cold for that to be the best part of any evening...
...speaking of mystical...I do love waking up to snow...inside a warm house...everything is sooo quiet and 'twinkly'...
Bring on summer though...I love it when the heat is on! Despite being brought up in England, I feel it is my genetic heritage to thrive in heat.
Hope you're having a great weekend Ash hon...
Next Saturday will be a grrrreat Winter's evening for Rugby.
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The only point of winter (for me) is snow, Rugby and my wardrobe!...can wear 5 layers at once!...as for the snuggling up and cuddling?...don't need to be cold for that to be the best part of any evening...
...speaking of mystical...I do love waking up to snow...inside a warm house...everything is sooo quiet and 'twinkly'...
Bring on summer though...I love it when the heat is on! Despite being brought up in England, I feel it is my genetic heritage to thrive in heat.
Hope you're having a great weekend Ash hon...
Next Saturday will be a grrrreat Winter's evening for Rugby.
big hug
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~laughing~ your comment cracked me up! Those kids! Maybe you should just buy two double beds and push them together in one room and then problem solved!
You have your kids now... there is no need for having your own room anymore
warm hugs
ash
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hhhmmmm a bubble bath just isn`t the same without a nice glass of red.... I don`t encourage people to try out addictive things.... they become a little... um... addictive! You`d be having hot baths year round.
awwww I have a bear that sits on my dresser... maybe he is feeling a little cold and needs a cuddle?
keep warm!
ash
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now that sounds like an evening VERY well spent! I feel relaxed just thinking about it.
Happy winter nights to you... LONG LIVE THE COLD
ash
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Yes it certainly seems like you are getting a blasting down there. We are fortunate enough to still have quite sunny days although as soon as the sun sets it gets chilllllllllly!
I will raise my glass to that one for sure. Bring it sistah
Kangaroo Valley sounds interesting - have not heard of it before. Look forward to seeing where you went. I hope your camera woes get sorted out soon - birthday coming up by any chance?
Thanks Tracy - I love taking photos (like I haven`t said that often enough ~lol~)
hugs
ash
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hhhmmmm there is something so cosy about the smell of fresh baked goods wafting through the house on a winter day.
As for watching the sunsets winter is definitely the best time for that. There is something so beautiful about the sunset during winter - those burnt orangey colours that set the sky ablaze.... oh yeah!
ash
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Invigorating... to say the least. You must be loving the current weather!
Then get stuck into the artificial pleasures.
I want it to be winter year round!
ash
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ah red wine season.... I just wish I had a fire place at home and life would be complete.
my sister thinks I`m a nutcase because I watch movies more than once.
awwww you`re like the video... Nickelback are a great band, they have some good song lyrics (for soppy ones like me). I saw them when they were in Brisbane a couple of years ago... WOW! Their drummer did a solo - -- - you couldn`t see his arms at one stage they were just a blur and with fireworks going off on stage around him - almost as good as Robbie. Your daughter has very good taste in music ~pats daughter on the back~
ash
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oh my word yes I can see how that would be a GREAT winter evening. Thanks for the photo - I hope that isn`t your car surrounded by walls of snow!
I would take a lot of buses.... and I despise public transport.
ash
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Thanks for the offer.... but I`m lapping up all the winter glory at the moment.
I reckon a New York winter would be great though.... hmmmm one day I may see you there!
ash
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hahahahaha Funny you should mention the rugby - I thought of you last night during the game. My toes almost made cracks in the tiles with all the curling.
Oh I love it when it snowed. We never got snow where I grew up so the first time I saw it was in the England when I was 21. My friends mom came rushing into the room to wake us up one chilly morning... laying in the warm bed with the curtains wide open and watching the flakes whirl around outside.... one of the best winter experiences I have had!
Yeah cuddling on hot summer nights? Not a fan! Space.... air.... and lots of cold showers
I think you should have been brought up in Africa and me in Enlgand - would have suited the inner thermostats much more by the sounds of things.
My weekend has been very uneventful... makes more a nice change. Thanks for asking. I just know yours was PUMPED with that fab win last night
big hugs
ash
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My favorite winter activities
Going outside for a short time
Coming inside and fixing heary soup
Then day abed reading a book or something else entirely ;0)
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I love the cold, its so moody and perfect for indoor entertainment of the cinematic variety. Board games are a good time too.
The smell of a fireplace burning, generating warmth, or a nice hot, steaming bubble bath soothe and relax.
The winter night skies are so clear too and the moon radiates brilliantly, natural beauty.
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winter sounds like the best season around your place. It sounds like you have very cosy days, with a little excitement thrown in there.... good mix of activities is always the best to keep one going
ash
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Wow so poetic....
The winter night skies are so clear too and the moon radiates brilliantly, natural beauty.
~being transported for a moment~
thanks for sharing
ash
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ah I hear you there! I had the fluffiest duvet when I lived in England... you could get lost under it!
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Now where was I after watching that Nickleback video? Oh yes what to do on a winter's evening, snuggling up with my boys and watching a film is a favourite. Or if it's raining all snuggling up under a blanket on the settee by the window and watching it together and singing the rain songs.
Take Care.
Sarah. xxx
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Your winter evenings sound glorious and I can imagine in the UK would be so cosy, especially when it snows. Gotta love the snow!
Thanks for sharing
ash