Perfect Weather for Trolls

The days have changed, the circle is turning.

All of a sudden it is dark when I wake up. It isn't properly light until a little while after I have staggered out of bed.

The rain has come. After a glorious September, the weather has turned. It is still warm for the moment but there is rain and mizzle and mist. Mizzle is a Cornish word for the rain that is whipped apart by the wind and flies sideways. The roads are wet. The hill appears through the cloud occasionally.

We have had our thermostat set really low all Summer and Sunday I found the heating coming on. Time to reset it for winter. The heating is definitely on now. Temperatures are still at about 14 here but next week they are apparently going to drop below 10.

We are heading towards Samhain and Yule.

The dark is winning. I havn't even been able to see the full moon...

I am not feeling cold though. Something has changed. My metabolism seems to have sparked. I am normally the cold one, wrapped up in jumpers while others sit there with bare arms. It isn't a one off, otherwise I would think nothing of it, I am feeling warmer. I am not the cold one suddenly. I am noticing that I have to keep covered though, otherwise my joints get achy.

I have been losing weight. 8 and a half pounds since starting the new regime so i get to buy a troll bracelet now. Yay!

Trolls like dark and Winter which is why they are so common in Scandinavia. They also have no problem with the wet because many of them like to live under bridges. Very appropriate really....

Not sure I ever mentioned before but I am Troll royalty. The Troll Queen in fact...

It started when my niece and nephew were a lot younger. My niece came creeping along trying to startle me while I was in the bath. I called out 'fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an English gal!' She liked this a lot but got giant and troll a little mixed up and it all developed into a long running game. My Troll Boy and Troll Girl would go and find me special Troll food, dragons blood ice cream and the like. F got to be the Troll King when we met....