Is it time to get up yet?

I'm thinking seriously of going into hibernation next winter if it's going to be as dark and dismal as it is now. It's gone 4 o'clock and it's still dark. We have had rain all day long (by way of a change!!) and at eight o'clock this morning I wasn't sure whether to get up or stay in bed.
I did get up and after a shower and breakfast I still felt like a mole groping around in the gloom.
As I have put my name down on a housing list to move back to Wiltshire, I decided to start getting rid of some rubbish as I will have to downsize. The refuse collections around here are every 2 weeks and the bin men are due tomorrow so it seemed a good time to start. I searched through a cupboard and found four shoe boxes full of old photographs, birthday and Christmas cards from when my partner was alive. There were also hundreds of negatives and I decided that as they were of not interest to anyone other than me, I would get rid of them so spent the morning chopping them up. I will also get rid of a lot of the photos, some of them aren't much good anyway and if there is anything worth keeping then I can scan them onto the printer and put the on the laptop then put them on disc. Isn't progress wonderful? It will save me some room and I just hope that Antiques Roadshow won't miss these old fashioned things too much in years to come and anyway, memories can't be removed from my head.
After doing all that I thought I had better get cracking and write out my Christmas cards but I ran out and will have to get a few more and also some more stamps when I go into town. Fortunately, I have made a start on the Christmas shopping with the help of my grand-daughter this weekend and we even wrapped a few. She was going to help her Mum put up their decorations at home last night with her brother and sister but it's too early for me so I'll wait until this coming weekend.
I'm just counting down to the end of the month when the days get longer, I can't be doing with all this wet and dark weather. I don't mind it very cold and frosty as long as the sun's out. I'd better go and take some vitamin D so that I don't get ricketts this winter!