Freezing your toosh off? Feeling the urge to just sit around & grizzle about the weather? Shape up, cutie! Try doing these instead!

Find yourself a perfect red lipstick

Decorate your bedroom with fairy lights

Buy yourself an amazing bathrobe to lounge in

Start wearing multiple pairs of ripped stockings layered over each other

Bundle up & go for long night-time walks with someone cute

Drink more juice

Learn how to knit & make yourself an assortment of fabulous hats & scarves

Cultivate armpit hair (I think it’s kind of cute)

Stick jewels all over your library card

Prepare an enormous feast for your closest friends

Spend an entire weekend watching a box set of your favourite show

Make an effort to get out of the house every Sunday & go for a big breakfast

Hold hands with someone while you sleep

Wear a coat with a huge collar & pretend you’re a superhero in disguise

Guard against the dreaded lizard-skin by moisturising regularly!

Perfect a hot chocolate recipe

Tell ghost stories around a crackling fire

Buy a pair of hilarious slippers (preferably with a face on!)

Smile all the way to work — people will either smile back or think you’re mental. Either way, what bliss!

Cultivate a fabulous stocking collection & use them to dress up simple outfits

Go to the ballet

Yawn as often as you like

Give up smoking (huddling in the rain is no fun)

Procure a pair of ultra-cute mittens on a string

Allow yourself lots of quiet, dimly-lit alone time

Buy watercolours & a Moleskine notebook &
go wild

Eat mashed potatoes

Carry a hot water bottle everywhere (I have a turquoise one which matches a lot of my clothing…)

Fall asleep to The Beatles

Dress up like a Eurotrash snow bunny

Make a fort

Read trashy novels in bed

Write long letters to your favourite people (even if they live nearby)

Choreograph dances in your living room to stay warm!

Wear ruffle-butt panties

Book a session in an isolation tank

Fill a huge glass jar in your living room with sweets

Wear a hoodie (with the hood pulled up) to sleep in

Buy an enormous fluffy rug

Imagine yourself sleeping on a big cloud

Reclaim old personality traits which have been trampled into oblivion

Find yourself a magical talisman

Listen to Fiona Apple & Elliott Smith over & over until you know all the words

Make a huge bowl of vegetarian chilli

Go ski-ing, stay in a chalet & wear an elaborate knitted jersey!

Watch Charlie Chaplin movies

Pick a new hero

Wear leg-warmers

Think about where you would like to spend your next winter!