Tommy Collison

It’s still pitch dark when I’m getting ready for school in the mornings. More often than not, there’s also rain ceaselessly thumping against the window too.

I did supervised study in school for the first term this year. I noticed that it’d be pitch dark when I’d be leaving the school at 6pm. As Dad used to comment, ‘you’d have to ask someone to actually verify if it got bright at all today, because you wouldn’t have seen it!’

Except now, it’s pitch dark when I leave school at the normal time of 4pm.

Hello winter.