January and The Blues

Happy New Year to you all, and as the title suggests, the Blues. No not those Blues, but the Blues, post Christmas, Credit Card blues. Although I’m a great lover of Jazz myself, today we’re talking about the latter.

It’s that time of year when a lot of people consider changing lifestyle, moving home, jobs, losing weight, giving up habits such as smoking or maybe alcohol. The latest one this year of course is Veganuary, a couple of our customers at Chai Deli in Mumbles have confessed to not wanting their usual carnivore option for a more Earth friendly alternative.

Back to The Blues, what triggers this? We’ve had this discussion in the shop, where “soap boxes” arrive in the spadeful, opinions abound. Some say it’s because there’s such a build up to the Holiday period which lasts all of a day maybe two and then it’s gone. This year because of family illnesses we put our Christmas feast on hold, and to be honest felt a lot better for it, no food overload, booze soaked after feeling. By the way everyone has turned a corner and we have a new addition to the family Hannah 8lb 6ozs which as you can imagine has really cheered us up hugely.

Others speak of the dark depressing shortness of daylight hours, to add to this this year the weather has been very wet and miserable, oh and of course another General Election. Lots of people and I was one of them believed that as soon as we had the shortest day the mornings would start to get lighter, but no, whilst the evenings start to give us a glimmer of hope it’s the opposite for the mornings which continue to get darker for a few weeks more.

So prey tell us , what triggers your January Blues, or do you enjoy the darkness of the winter and relish hunkering down with a steamy cup of Gower Tea and a good book?

On that note January is drawing to an end and sunnier brighter days are on the horizon. Again from all of us here at Gower Tea from our family to yours A Happy and Healthy New Year to you all.