I am sorry for your losses, Sophie. Blue has always been my favourite colour and I have always been a rather blue person in my melancholy moods. I never liked the festive since, well, not since my father died in a car accident just before Christmas, when I was 15, and with my birthday coinciding the last day of the year, I too always found it to be a gloomy period. This year, I came down with a bad cold just before New Year’s Eve, which was a great excuse not to partake in anything remotely festive. Sometimes curling up in a sad ball is also good for us. Sending warm wishes for 2026. And thank you for this beautiful post. I enjoyed listening to you narrate it.