Picture the scene.  Mid afternoon, minding my own business, sitting in my favourite coffee shop, the weather increasingly dark and dismal.

Just as I’m about to pull out my healthy bag of acorns to accompany my organic tea with soya milk, I happen to look up and glance around me at what is going on at everybody else’s tables.  A strange ritual has begun. I like to think of it as Carbtober.

It’s the time of year where everyone feels the need to eat as much as they can. Has it hit you yet? We are behaving like squirrels.

What happens to our bodies at this time of year that we feel the need to constantly eat comfort food? It’s almost as if we’re getting ready to hibernate.

Just for the record I took one last look around the coffee shop and felt extremely left out.  A few cakes, packet of biscuits and a cappuccino later, I was heading back to my cave to Cwtsh down until next March.