Could be for you Nettie, unlikely for me - i'm under 3 inches of snow again.

For me i'm pretty sure it was the financial crisis as i've felt MUCH better since the major crash and closures began.

Bx
I feel that things are turning as well because of the financial crisis. People are finally acknowledging and questioning some of the ridiculous things everyone just took for granted before eg Banker's bonuses, executive gravy trains, ridiculous house prices, accumulation of debt and the unsustainability of the economy as it was. Although I sometimes wish I had recorded myself saying before it happened that it would all collapse. Funnily enough no one seems to remember me saying it. I was just the insane hippy who didn't understand the real world!! Even funnier is the way columnists now talk about these changes like they were inevitable whereas they were the worst for saying everything was fine and the economy was strong and so on and so on. Times are a changing!!