Flat, or dull. The thesaurus cites the following synonyms

banal, blah, bland, blind, bombed, boring, colourless, dead, dim, drab, draggy, flavourless, ho hum, inane, innocuous, insipid, jejune, lacklustre, lead balloon, lifeless, mat, monotonous, muted, pointless, prosaic, prosy, sapless, spiritless, stale, tasteless, tedious, uninteresting, unpalatable, unsavoury, unseasoned, vanilla, vapid, watery, weak.

Basically I feel a bit vanilla at the moment.

Having said that we had our Christmas ‘do’ the other day and that was also distinctly vanilla. No added spice. It was a bland-o affair. And it wasn’t just me that thought it. Perhaps it’s a bit of a vanilla time of year.

But it shouldn’t be, it should be the jolly run-up-to-Christmas season with merry moments and sparkly sprinkles of seasonal sweetness.

I was never terribly keen on vanilla as a flavour for ice cream. Mind you that is probably something to do with the old chocoholism which set in at an early age.

I don’t really know why everything is so vanilla. It just is.

Hey ho.