Many people retreat indoors during the colder months, darting out occasionally to fill the bird feeders or clear the leaves from the lawn.

While the settled community retreat indoors, the travellers take over the streets in their top-of-the-range cars.

Autumn's shorter days are a good reason to retreat indoors, rug up and hunker down.

Start outside and gradually retreat indoors.

They are the bane of summer, the buzzing nuisances that bother our lazy days in the sun and even pursue us if we retreat indoors from the heat.