Summertime

 

For me summer starts in January/February. Which may seem a bit odd considering that it's still actually mid winter. But it's the promise of summer. The shortest day has past, the daffodils are peeking through the earth and whilst they still may get covered in snow we know we are going in the right direction. 

In March the clocks change and we finally start to notice the days getting longer. And suddenly everyone will be saying 'it's light when I go to work and it's light when I leave work'.

April and May can make for a lovely spring and the weather gets warmer. A few more weeks and summer has arrived.

I have two kinds of footwear - boots for winter and flip flops for summer and flip flops win hands down. You flip them on and flop them off! Easy living. And another summer staple for easy living is dresses! You just roll out of bed and pull it over your head! Dress and flip flops, 10 seconds and your done, out the door. Winter is putting on socks, pulling up jeans, fastening all the buttons on a shirt and pulling on a jumper or cardi then lacing up your boots. Just takes so long and that's without putting on your coat, hat, gloves and scarf! Boring 

I love a summer picnic, at least I love the thought of a summer picnic. Sun shining, picnic hamper, bottle of bubbly, sweet strawberries and cream, crusty bread and cheese, fresh cherry tomatoes and a crisp salad. The reality - sitting on a blanket on the grass is pretty uncomfortable (and damp), limp lettuce, soggy sandwiches, warm, flat Coke, lots of flies and wasps buzzing around your head ... And then it rains!

Another problem with summer is that there is loads of sunlight to charge your solar garden lights but by the time it gets dark and they come on you've gone to bed! 

However, there are plenty of good bits too. Barbeques with family eating burnt sausages and half raw burgers (only kidding), sunbathing and getting that light Scottish tan, going for evening walks (never mind the midgies), eating ice-cream, and watching Wimbledon! I love summer! 

So this week's photo - I think you all know that I have very thick, long hair and during the night it tangles and I wake up with a bird's nest on my head. So I bought this silk hair wrap to wear whilst sleeping. It looks like a1920's turban, all I need is a peacock feather pinned to the front. Mark thinks it's hilarious and it doesn't even work - it always just falls off during the night!! Oh well, never mind. It was worth a try. 

People don't notice the things you do for them, until you stop doing them.