Which I don’t really mind at all because it’s a great way to save money and enjoy all the cosy creature comforts of winter time.

Although, the packet of Tim Tams seems to run out a lot faster during winter and there are fewer visits to the gym, which spells disaster for the dream summertime figure and my already snug-fit straight leg jeans.

But it’s a nice feeling to have a movie night at home with your best girlfriends while the wind and rain whistle outside.

I have found that a cheap bottle of wine, lollies and bad snacks and a copy of Twilight on DVD is the perfect recipe for a great girls’ night in.

But it’s not all snuggles and warmth in winter, I have recently realised.

This time of the year makes it so much harder to have clean clothes without a clothes dryer.

It’s all well and good to wash your clothes in the machine, but when it comes to drying them – good luck.

The dirty washing piles up in the laundry and the wardrobe becomes more and more bare until eventually, even though it’s pouring rain outside, you are forced to do a load of washing.

Luckily, I have a clothes airer which I strategically place under the air-conditioner and hope that it dries in time so I don’t have to go to work in a pair of cut-off denim shorts and my Hanson t-shirt from the mid-90s.

My friend was saying to me last week that she had hung out a load of washing on her clothes airer and more than four days later it was still not dry.

I should have suggested to her to take to the clothes with a hair dryer – a time consuming but effective solution.

Another thing I dislike about winter is bin day.

On the windy and stormy Sunday night we put our full, heavy wheelie bin out on the kerb and by the morning it had ended up a good 150 metres down the street.

I still have images in my head of my partner, half dressed for work at 7am, chasing the empty bin down the road, which was skidding further and further away with every gust of wind.

He looked so funny running down the road after a bin, hoping that nobody saw him as he wheeled it back to the house.

But I shouldn’t tease him for braving the cold to save the Sulo – he might make me chase the bin in the future now he’s read this.