In Winter there is no forage , peasants have no stocks of food for you to steal as they have already eaten most of it by this time of year and getting anywhere on unmade roads is hopeless. Quite apart from your arms and armour rusting in the damp ( worse than the cold, but that's another reason for not fighting now) and everyone being ill. Archers can't shoot with numb fingers and their bowstrings rot. You also need even larger fires to keep warm which means you have to spend absurd amounts of time getting the wood organised and, like the French at Agincourt, your cavalry , once armed and mounted are so heavy they just sink into the mud. If it is very cold rather than just cold and wet, your soldiers will  die of cold on the way to the battle- ask Napoleon about Moscow…any road you travel on will become unusable after the army, the equipment and the camp followers have passed along it- as most roads were pretty much impassable anyway in winter before tarmacadam getting hundreds of people anywhere in winter was a non-starter. Also you cannot creep up on your enemy in snow- you show up too much!

May I drag this kicking and screaming back to the topic of thread,or will I be hounded out of the forum?

Today I have hung many pictures, made apple and ginger cake, cleaned the excess grout from the bathroom tiles, mounted some pictures to goon the wall in our bedroom, vacuumed the hall and landing to finally get rid of the last of the mess from rebuilding the bathroom, done some laundry, and planned the veg to plant in my garden. Thee boy has assisted in most of these tasks (or was I assisting him? hard to say), and also put the telly in the kitchen up on a bracket too clear more counter space for coffee machines.

Not bad for a sunday I reckon.

I may even see my way clear to ironing some of the clean laundry, but I make no promises.

Wait a minute Toffeeapple, when didi you get the crown and the stars and doo-dads under your avatar picture?

I am so jelous, allI have is one wimpy star!

Today I sucessfully dragged a thead on the Cottage Smallholder forum way away from its true path, but in doing so I perhaps dissuaded any other thread regulars from contemplating invading anywhere in this winter weather and thus possibly averted a third world war.

Well, until the Spring.

I also cleaned out the rubbish drawer in the kitchen so it now contains only useful things in an organised useful tray thingy.

I also got out of my pyjamas into proper clothes.

Eventually.

Lemons have been slow cooked ready for marmalading tomorrow.