In this half of the world, we're now on the countdown to the official start of winter. It seems implausible that we don't get to this point until we're nearly ready for Christmas, but there you go. This part of the year can have a bad rep for putting people in a foul mood, and one of the primary reasons for this is because the weather gets cold. Those of us with bad circulation rarely have fun being outside during the coming months, if only because it takes an hour to unfreeze our extremities when we go back inside again. It's difficult having these reptilian instincts in a climate that is built for people with a hypothetical fur coat, so it's only fair that we get to complain about it. Being cold is a horrible thing to experience regularly, and there will never be enough layers to take the edge off that.