Lazy Summer Days
Summer is here (I wonder how long for). Friday was gloriously sunny and reached 24.6ºC (A May record since the weather station records began). Yesterday was similarly sunny and reached 23.8ºC. Today looks as though it will be a scorcher too.
As usual I got up early (5am ish), answered e-mails and did a little bit of work and then made the most of the cooler morning and got out in the garden to do some gardening. I got a little carried away and did loads of weeding, mulching, moving of plants, mowed the lawn, and even turned the compost in the compost bins. I sowed some seeds too. A little late really, but better late than never and hopefully they’ll germinate. All in all I spent about 5 hours gardening and the garden is beginning to look a little better.
We then had a lazy day in the garden. Morgan played in his paddling pool, I pottered around the garden as I can’t sit still and Anna read her book. Dave and Sarah then came over and we sat under the gazebo trying to shade from the sun.
We did of course have the obligatory BBQ as well, along with some very refreshing lager shandy for me.
All very nice and very relaxing, but I really needed to DO something, There wasn’t quite enough wind for windsurfing, there wasn’t any surf and it was too windy for playing in the canoe. I think today I shall go for a MTB ride, although it will be hot out there, so maybe a longish, easy ride will be the order of the day.
