brace yourself / finals are coming
A Prepare yourself post.
January the second. There's a queue for the squat rack and someone is filming a "day one" video by the water fountain. Brace yourselves. By February it'll be you, a man called Steve and the broken rowing machine again. Your aunt has learnt how the forward button works. Brace yourselves: the good morning roses are coming, every day, at 6, to the whole family, with a poem about friendship. Someone in the office says "it's a bit nippy today". Everyone goes quiet. The heating argument is coming, and it will last until May. Mid September, and the supermarket has put out the Christmas selection boxes next to the sun cream. Brace yourselves. The mince pies are already in the back. **Why it caught on:** Sean Bean as Ned Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011) spent the first season warning that winter was coming, his family's motto, and everyone loves announcing the perfectly predictable flood a few minutes before it arrives.