Even with spring in sight, we are still stuck in the long dark tunnel of winter. Tom Smart suggests ways gardeners can distract themselves until spring arrives
Last weekend I emerged from my house and stood, squinting into the February sun. I felt a strange buzzing around my head, as if my skull was charged with static and at any moment I might experience an electric shock. I rolled my shoulders back and inhaled deeply. My lungs filled with the cold air. The sky was a sharp winter blue and above me, the contrails of transatlantic flights drew chalk marks through the stratosphere. There was something about the sun, the sky, the air – my mind began to clear.
I’d been awake for several hours, but I realised, I did not really feel awake. After days of grey and winter gloom, I often feel my mind becomes foggy. Sometimes I feel lethargic. At other times I feel anxious. It’s at times like these that I do anything to get out of the house: swimming, shopping, a trip to a museum, an oversized mug of tea at a café, the library, or, if the weather permits, a walk. Of course there is a colloquialism for that claustrophobic feeling which many of us experience in winter: cabin fever.
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