Just returned from a sunbathing spell in the garden because I got too hot! Only the second time this year that I returned from outdoors to cool down. We are promised long hot summer  days, presumably to begin about Thursday next week. We don’t possess a barbecue; we can eat outdoors but cook in the kitchen quite comfortably. And get in easily if it rains.We sometimes enjoy a barbecue at our daughter’s house. She has a rather larger garden and patio not to say a state-of-the-art barbecue, so we have just what we want.

But… maybe if the summer is as promised we should change our minds but then I’ll have to cook I suppose. a task which my wife jealously guards to herself at present.