As the last stinging showers of sleet and rain start to become a memory, with the changing of the clocks on the last Sunday in March, the arrival of warm air from the south and the lengthening days, heralds the start of spring.  Almost overnight the scene has changed, from those long cold dark and oppressive winter nights to one of optimism that the extra hours of evening light brings.  <more>

It was a late October Saturday morning as I was taking some paintings up to one of my galleries in Aberdeen for their winter exhibition, and if I was being charitable the weather was brisk, conversely you could say it was blowing-a-wholly...

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As autumn shifts into winter the days get shorter and darker, some wish they could pull the duvet over their heads until spring. For those sufferers of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, they will typically feel lethargic, depressed and have cravings for carbohydrate foods with symptoms intensifying between December and February... <more>