my car has been standing for a good few months, the clutch was fine before, was new ish,, but now there is about and inch or 2 play in the clutch pedal and when it dose take up the slack the clutch is realy realy heavy. the batery is flat atm so i cant start it yet have had some prity cold and bad weather were i am so was wondering if it is just the cold weather afecting the gear box oil???

any help would be very welcome thanks