By Steve Stratford, Deputy Editor
Here I am, sitting at my desk at work on a wind-lashed, rain-drenched Thursday morning. The roads are quiet, the office is quieter than usual and I'm absolutely cream-crackered.
The gales hit Llandudno in the small hours of this morning and woke me up, and I couldn't get back off to sleep. Then I heard a dustbin and its decapitated lid rolling around on the patio outside, which resulted in me venturing out into the garden to retrieve them so that I - and the rest of the street - could get some sleep.
Christmas is gone, and it's now that weird, slightly depressing time between Christmas and New Year when nothing really happens, everything's strangely muted and disappointing. But if you try hard enough you can just about hang on to the festive spirit until New Year's Eve.
Talking of festive spirit, I had to laugh at a press release we received from North Wales Fire Service just before Christmas saying that if we used our Christmas tree lights less often, we might actually preserve the potential for a white Christmas in the future. But if we left our lights on wantonly, we'd be wasting £14.5 million, burning up enough energy to power 5,500 FA Cup finals and enough carbon dioxide to fill over 15,500 hot air balloons.
It's a sterling, admirable press release from the fire service, I'll admit that. But I just wonder how effective it could ever be to try and convince people that having lights on our trees at Christmas will have a direct effect on the weather we have on Christmas Day in 2019? It's emotional blackmail on an impressive scale - turn off your Christmas lights or we'll have grey, rainy windswept Christmases forever! I rather think it's too late already, maybe they should have sent that press release out in 1974...
Happy New Year!
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