Woman's Own

DAWN NEESOM MIND OF MY OWN

FAREWELL TO JANUARY BLUES

Wait, hold on. What just happened? Oh my God, shockingly it’s true… January has finished! You’ve survived the longest month in the history of, er, longest months.

The basic laws of maths, space and time have never applied to the first month of the year. Officially, of course, it does only have 31 days, which each have 24 hours in them.

So why does it always feel so damn l-o-n-g. Even if you haven’t spent it giving up everything that’s even remotely fun, it still drags.

Maybe it’s because it’s either very cold or very wet, but always very dark. Money and clothes are both tight and the closest

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