Too much whisky (or wine…) would certainly release some PENT up emotions! As Burns famously said in Tam O’Shanter (a poem often recited at Burns Suppers) - I’d be “getting fou and unco’ happy”.
This weather is a TEST of my resolve to get out walking with the dog every day: easy yesterday when the sky was a cloudless blue & Arran had snow on it, less so today between cold squally showers from a dark grey sky.