Well, it’s over for another year. Give or take the odd popping champagne cork tomorrow night, the world is waking up again after the festive close-down. Even the snow is disappearing rapidly; I resumed my pre-breakfast walk this morning, and only had to circumnavigate patches of ice four times.
Is it just me, or do Christmas lights, trees and other assorted decorations start to look sad and forlorn as soon as the day itself has passed? An inflatable Rudolph makes an appearance on top of a porch up our street every year, and by December 27th he’s lost half his inflation and is starting to sag at the knees – though that may be deliberate and symbolic, of course. And even our own tree, which in the absence of small children in our lives hasn’t been interfered with since we perched the fairy on the topmost branch, has begun to look faintly melancholy. I know it’s traditional to leave it all in situ till January 5th, but I can’t help feeling the general post-festive lethargy would lift faster if we just swept it all away as soon as the turkey bones were in the garbage.
No more time for lethargy around here; things are almost back to normal. I’m checking proofs, updating the website (OK, not personally, but someone has to provide the techie genius with the right words), scheduling promotion events for 2010, and the old year isn’t even over yet. The new one will bring four new titles and at least one exciting development to Crème-world; all will be revealed in due course – watch this space.
Meanwhile, there’s nothing much to blog about. So I’ll shut up.
Happy New Year, everyone.
