Now in its 47th year, the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch aims to offer a mass-participatory tonic to January’s often dreary outlook, with the opportunity to turn your gaze outwards and help the RSPB with

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I’d just dropped Sarah off at a small railway station in Scotland and, after several weeks travelling together, I was on my own again. She was heading home to Cornwall, leaving me free to devote time