Office flings double in winter – well, there’s one way to warm up
The clocks go back on Sunday, ushering in winter time. I say winter, but it’s not really is it?
Winter is girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, sleigh bells, Aldi strudel and bogus £20-a-head Wonderlands that turn out to be a brace of donkeys wearing crooked reindeer antlers in a muddy car park.
So what we are really welcoming is Seasonal Affective Disorder, which affects almost one in three of us, according to 2014 research by The Weather Channel and Yougov.
Women are 40 per cent more likely to be hit by low mood at this time; which is my medical justification for having already booked next year’s summer holiday, earmarked a motherdaughter spa break for the new year and invested in a solo jaunt to Heidelberg next month.
In my defence, I don’t work in an office, so I have to cheer myself up somehow. Those of you who do can get away with splashing your cash on vertiginous ankle boots and a come-hither manicure.
Why? Because your chances of landing yourself in an office romance double as soon as the nights draw in. Yes, they double!
In young people parlance, it’s known as “cuffing” season; latching on to someone so you don’t have to Netflix and chill on your tod, which is both lonely and icky.
But whatever your age, daylight’s loss is Cupid’s gain. A study by marketing company Reeboot Digital has revealed that 66 per cent of workplace flings begin round about now.
Possibly literally. Right this minute. Look across the desks; has Weird Geoff from IT ever seemed more desirable than now, his face shrouded in Stygian gloom?
So you go for it, girl. Love lifts you up where you belong. And if that feels a bit too SAD, you can always come to Heidelberg with me.