It's the weekend - is that really the sun?

Well folks, absolutely stunned this weekend - the sun came out on Friday and stayed out all weekend long! Yippee!

We had no plans for a change so things just evolved - started with Mr Moo bringing some friends home from school on Friday and a bit of a party ensuing when the parents came to pick them all up. One couple brought some champagne to celebrate my good news and it got a bit messy after that...ended up with 7 kids running around the garden almost naked whilst all us parents just laughed at them and cracked open another bottle. Had we been sober we might have been a tad concerned that they were too cold but instead it was just plain amusing, especially when some of them started jumping around with garden chairs on their heads and the others manhandled all the scooters and cars up on top of the climbing frame. And that was just the kids, lord knows what the adults would have been capable of had we not been sensible and called it a day before too many tears were shed!

The rest of the weekend was mainly everyday chores like the supermarket, library and washing. I did a good bike ride by myself on Saturday afternoon, 16.5 miles which was a decent effort but nowhere near where I need to be in order to feel comfortable at my epic ride in just 4 weeks time. We are lucky in that we live near the beach, with a great cycle path running along the coast for a few miles; makes for pretty scenery while you're riding, and the headwind creates good resistance training.

And it was the start of the BBQ season too - twice this weekend! We just crashed in the garden on both afternoons/early evenings, cracked open a bottle or 2 and watched the kids play while we put the world to rights. Well, started planning our summer holiday which is just as important. Our brains and bank balances weren't in full operating condition so the kid's food was pretty boring stuff like burgers in pitta bread, but I did find some pork steaks in the freezer which BBQ'd up a treat with some really hot salsa, and Lidl had a stonking offer on aubergines - tonight it's steak marinaded in pepper, cider vinegar and tarragon with griddled aubergine slices in chilli oil and lemon juice. Happy days!