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Winter is my favourite time of the year.

I like the sound of raindrops tapping on windows. I like the way frost sparkles on cobwebs in the morning.

I like watching my breath turn into smoke in the cold air.

Best of all, I like to stretch out in front of an open fire and stare into the flames.

You can see all sorts of things if you look hard enough.

Tigers with blazing eyes. Fierce dragons, and knights in shining armour.

If Im very lucky, the Firebird will come.

It hatches from a tiny egg deep in the heart of the fire.

It spreads its golden wings and hovers for a moment among the flames. Then it disappears up the chimney in a shower of sparks.

I imagine it soaring brightly across the winter sky.

Above the clouds and into the sun.

To be born again some other wet and wintry day.

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