It's a miserable time of the year. A lot of it has to do with the lack of sunlight. We need to make sure we still get outdoors for some fresh air and take vitamin D3 tablets.

I agree Floydy, I too, think that's a lot to do with it.
We have been without warm sunshine for months by now, and still have at least 3 months more months to go, so will get even more depleted.

I do know what you mean Nom, and to an extend I agree.
But it can also be a state of mind I think. We need to think more positive and try to look forward.

I have fed the wild birds for years, I just love having them round the garden.
A few weeks ago I had some rats visiting the bird tables, so I stopped feeding. It really upset me because I had a little family of Dunnocks come every day, and my Robins would wait on the fence for me, and many others. I want to feed them, but don't want the rats.

It won't be that long before they start pairing up and thinking about nesting, and my little garden seems to have lost it soul and is so empty now. So today I bought a new feeder which I am going to try and hang on my clothes line. Do you think this will be safe from rats? Surely they won't run along my clothe line will they?

I guess what I'm getting at is, try to do something that one step towards the spring. I don't know how you spend your time when indoors, but could you write for a bird magazine, or have you anyone to go out with for a day here and there, pursuing a joint hobby or someething?

Failing that, think ahead to Valentine's Day ...... that should cheer you up, trying to devise a way of blocking all the fan mail from your letterbox.

Am i alone in finding the next 3 months the hard part of the year.

Inclement weather means less opportunity to get out and about seriously can affect my moods.

Longer for bank balance to recover from Crimbo with extra costs to keep warm.

Folks all seem to adopt, head down pose of Lowry.

Roll on Spring.

Mups you must get a rat trap .
I have no problem now and I am once more feeding the birds !