So now it's all over... no more Christmas lights and flashing Santas everywhere and I miss it, everything looks so dull. I know it's not cool or tasteful but it is colourful at a time of year when colour is in short supply. Maybe I've got SAD syndrome and all I need is a bright light to keep me happy but I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like this. I'd suggest having all January as part of Christmas, which would make about 38 Days of Christmas. But, and it is a big but, that blinking song about the twelve days of Christmas (changed to 38) would be so long we'd all be suicidal by the time we'd finished singing it, or hearing it for that matter.
So what's the answer? Well as Baldrick would say I've come up with a cunning plan. If everyone was to take special pills to let them hibernate throughout January, think of all the benefits:
- We could all lose weight because we wouldn't be eating.
- We would save on energy because we'd all be in bed and wouldn't need the heating up so high.
- We would save more energy because we wouldn't be traveling to work in our cars, busses, trains, aeroplanes etc.
- We would save even more energy because we wouldn't need to heat all the workplaces because we'd all be at home (well apart from doctors and nurses and support staff but maybe we could send them and all sick people to warm foreign places so no-one misses out).
- Sam Allardyce and the rest of the moaning Premiership would get their Winter break.

Neat or what? Although I must admit if we did hibernate through January, February would be an absolute sod of a month.

Better plan a holiday!