Brrr, the temperature has dropped over the last few days.  After a glorious but cold Monday we had a dreich and cold Tuesday, now it is a gloomy-with-a-forecast-of-sun Wednesday.  All of which is leading me to contemplate getting out my red duffle coat!

In some ways it is hard to recapture the way I felt when I bought it - being three years on from that place of abject terror and now in a state of reasonable contentment.  In other ways it feels like it was only yesterday, wondering if there would be a second winter never mind a third or a fourth.

It would be wrong to say I am totally anxiety free, that there are no moments of uncertainty, but on the whole things are in a healthy perspective. 

I have two bank current accounts, each with debit cards, one which expires in 2014 and the other in 2016.  Three years ago I honestly doubted I'd live to see the first one expire, now I have all sorts of plans booked and paid for in 2014.  If I'm totally honest, there remains an element of uncertainty over the 2016 one, I don't feel I can assume I will see that one expire - but that won't stop me living life to the max in the meantime, and the more time passes the further ahead it feels safe to look.

So, time to defy the greyness of late autumn, time to express life and hope... time to get out the red duffle coat for another season!