Caffeine
Whether it is cloudy or sunny (as one can never tell with the weather in Britain), one is always hooked to a ‘cuppa’. High up in the latitudes closer to the North Pole, one expects it to be cold, no matter how the Sun plays its dirty tricks. There are shops selling cuppas and offices storing cuppas, but they are only cuppas, and a cuppa (or more) a day can (supposedly) keep depression at bay. Which is good as our brain which is so entrained to the whims of the Sun, and our bodies so slow to recover from insult and injury can result in our psych going into an overdrive and jumping into the sea for no sane reason. The head becomes heavy, and it can’t keep itself above water (save for keeping it on an analyst’s couch with a nice satin pillow). As the sleep deprived crowd of human beings (biologically speaking) walk past the apple, pear and maple trees lining the streets, which slowly turn an autumn yellow, they do not for one moment observe the slow fluttering motion of the ...