“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.” ― Kellie Elmore

Welcome to our countdown to the day of reckoning. During this week, we’re keeping an ear to the ground, listening for leaks of a possible early end to cold affronts felt in the global village neighborhoods of Canada, Greenland, et al. Watch this space.

“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” 

― Kenneth Grahame