Happy "Blue Monday is a marketing ploy" Monday (18/365)

[white_hart]

I'm not sure I've actually seen anyone claiming that Blue Monday is actually a thing recently, but every year I see multiple people pointing out how it was made up by a marketing company to persuade people to book holidays. (That may be why I haven't seen anything about it this year. Who's going to risk booking a holiday in a global pandemic when the odds aren't looking good for actually being able to go on it?)

Anyway, all the days blur together these days, and how can you say one is more or less miserable than the rest? (Although I am actually feeling particularly glum today, even by the standards of January in a pandemic.)

As an antidote to the gloom, I give you a stoat on a trampoline.

Comments

[el_staplador]

I did get us Interrail tickets in the end of December sale, but they can be used within eleven months of purchase (plus I paid extra to be able to get the full refund if necessary). I do think it's worth booking nice things with a fixed date to look forward to, but this year... not so much. I should book some leave on general principle, though.

[white_hart]

We are supposed to be going to the Yorkshire Dales in March (postponed from last year) but I think it's highly unlikely to actually happen.

[nineveh_uk]

I'm supposed to be going to Mull, likewise postponed (I've not even considered going to Norway). I just can't see it, unfortunately.

[white_hart]

I'm not entirely sure I'd want to even if we technically could, given how much more nerve-wracking being in a pandemic makes everything, but I'm not at all convinced we'll even be out of lockdown by then.