Snow floats down from the cloudy sky.

 

Leaves fall from the trees and turn icy-cold and crystallised.

 

The air has a frosty chill to it, making people shiver and quiver on their journey through the streets.

 

Mum is in the kitchen making a home cooked meal for her family to eat.

 

Dad is in the shed making wood carved presents to surprise his children with on Christmas morning.

 

The children are in the lounge playing a game of Dominoes by the fireplace.

 

The fire crackles and burns the logs and coal, heating and lighting up the cold, dark room.

 

Their cat wanders in from the garden, shaking off the dusting of snow that was hiding her back, and goes to lay by the fire.

 

An owl hoots, breaking the silence of the dark, winter night.

 

Clouds uncover the moon, making the fresh blanket of snow glitter and gleam in the nights’ darkness.

 

This is winter!