Weather
Weather affects our mental well-being. At a basic level, if it is raining you can't get outside to do the things you might have hoped to do - like hanging out the washing, mowing the lawn or going for a walk. And if you do venture outside, you need to put on your raincoat. With rain there will invariably be grey skies that drain the colour from the world around us. Everything looks less cheery. Last winter here in Great Britain was a mild one. Very little frost and hardly any snow but there were many grey days with a blanket of cloud - blocking out sunlight causing a kind of suffocation. The mild winter gave way to a warm spring but it didn't really feel like that. March, April and May contained many wet days and there wasn't one sustained spell of sunny days. It was one of the wettest springs on record but also one of the warmest. Up our garden we have a big hydrangea bush and it can act like a rainfall recorder. When there has been little rain in the spring or summer...