And, within 60 seconds of the resumption, Bath shrugged off the mid-winter blues with Abendanon's classy score.

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Books about those on vacation have helped me get through the winter blues.

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And being a Republican is apparently good for those winter blues.

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In a country where spring and summer are damp and stingy with their gifts, a vase full of tulips can be just the thing to cure you of those lingering winter blues.

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Often described as "winter blues", Rosenthal found the condition was more prevalent in northern latitudes: virtually no-one in sunny Florida was diagnosed with the condition while almost one in 10 of the population further north in New Hampshire was said to suffer from SAD.

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He was due to play a concert at Olympia Hall in Paris on 7 April with blues guitarist Johnny Winter.

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In an effort to start the year right and stave off the January blues, my husband and I thought we'd throw a mid-winter tapas party.

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