Beautiful Day

Wow! What fantastic weather yesterday, can't believe it's a Bank Holiday weekend. Got up early to start attacking the weed that was covering the front lawn. Not sure what it's called (at least in polite society), but it has little yellow flowers and spreads like crazy. 2 hours with the electric lawn rake, and it was one full brown wheelie bin and no more weed, quick once over with the mower, and whilst not Wimbledon, at last it's now grass that you can see.
Barbie for lunch (no, not the impossibly shaped plastic doll, the traditional British food sacrifice ceremony). It's a really good gas one, light it and you're cooking in 10 minutes. Whilst I know the BBQ purists will criticise, the thought of going back to 'proper' brickets, having to wait for an hour until it decides to heat up, and then to have the coals burn out just before the food is properly cremated does not appeal at all. I've got the burgers off to a T now, perfectly cooked and v. tasty, sausages are pretty much sorted, and even the bacon is edible, so yesterday the household authorities raised the stakes (no pun intended) and introduced pork kebabs to the mix. Diced pork, intermixed with peppers, onion and cherry tomatos, basted with honey and mustard. So, the challenge, ensure pork is fully cooked whilst trying to keep the vegetables from turning to charcoal. The result? Well I'm typing this this morning with no obvious signs of food poisoning, no-one else is up yet though!
The afternoon was meant to be for the back garden, but the temperature must have been pushing 30 degrees, so I thought I'd better make sure the hammock had survived the winter, took two hours to test it properly, downside was I forgot the sunblock and finished up with bright red face, arms and legs, I'll pay for that today.
Great to see the Housemartins are back, hearing them sing "Happy Hour" whilst wheeling in the air chasing flies tells you summer is here. They're checking out the eaves again so hopefully they'll be nesting soon. Whilst I love to watch them, and a couple of years back one nest was right outside the window so you could see them feed the babies, the amount of mess they make has to be seen to be believed. It's an absolute bugger to clean off as well, but I guess it's a small price to pay.
Finally got round to mending the puncture on number one son's bike (it's only taken 6 months, so that's not too bad), usual pathetic male feeling of pride at having completed a mechanical task that any 10 year old could do. But still, I had to use a spanner, and those neat things for getting the tyres off, and I even had to use two differently sized Allen keys, which feels like proper fixing. I'm sure I'm almost ready for Scrapheap Challenge.
So, day was over, and with the prospect of sitting down and watching Britain's Got Talent, or going onto Twitter (DaveJohnWard if you are interested) and Facebook, the computer won. This was when I started wondering about this blogging lark, Googled in "how do I create a Blog", and two hours later this beasty was in existence.
No idea where it's going, not much real idea where it came from, but I do have a few thoughts about things I'd like to blog on, some opinions to share and questions to pose. We'll see how it goes and whether this is a 5 minute wonder or becomes the greatest collection of musings since Plato.

all the best

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