Dear LPG,

I think that, in the winter everything can be an excuse to get you down.  The cold and the fact that we don’t get out as much as we are likely to when the weather gets brighter does not help.  The darkness that shortens the days doesn’t help as we get older either.

I know that I worry about going out once the nights draw in.  There are the possible security risks to consider and the cold of course.  If you were to go to bed when darkness falls each evening you would be there so long that your mind would have time to work overtime while you are tucked up because the television can only distract you for so long.

That gloomy feeling can be a bit overpowering even if you get yourself one of those SAD lights, but that is what I did, and while using it to read a book that was not altogether consuming my interest the other day, I was distracted by the state of my hands and those large brown freckly spots that you can see so much better when the light is really bright. 

Liver spots don’t really do any harm but, if you have got some, on an already dark depressing day they don’t help anyone’s positive outlook.  The only thought I was prompted to be aware of was another reminder that I am getting old.

I swapped my book for my tablet and found quite a few suggestions about how to remedy or, at least improve, this particular situation a little and I thought them worth passing on. 

There are also many preparations that can be bought in shops and concocting your own is likely to be a smelly pastime because nearly every remedy I have seen involves onions somewhere.  Making your own is also time consuming but, in the winter time, time is usually something that you have too much of anyway.  So while you are dedicating some of that time you have on your hands on your hands (or anywhere else where you might have spotted a spot or two), your mind will be focussed on something apart from feeling down, and the anticipated, though very gradual, visual improvements can only be positive, especially when you get back to your SAD light reading…

WG, Beckenham.  

WG shares some home recipes for improving age spots…

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