We are having lovely weather lately.

Perfect spring weather... it makes everything seem more positive somehow. It's warm, but not too hot (which is how I like it) and the sun is not so blinding as the summer sun can be. The clocks went forwards an hour last night, so that means that the nights will be lighter... which is great as it gives me more time to do things, like work in the garden or even get out with my camera, as the sun will go down after I finish work.

All in all, I love spring... especially seeing as we have had such a harsh and bitter winter.

We bought a new gazebo today... a pop-up one that we can take down if the weather turns nasty (and also at the end of the summer). Hopefully it will last longer than the normal ones we end up buying as we can store it away from the winter, and high winds, and not have to leave it up to fend for itself and just hope it makes it through to the spring without damage - because it is such a hassle to take down and put up (like we usually have to do).

So much for the early night!

I'm still sat in front of the laptop and the time is now 1.41am! I am over-tired and extremely bored, LOL!!

The house is all quiet and I am the only one awake now... even the cats are sound asleep (or as asleep as cats ever get, anyway).

It started to rain here again earlier and I was just stood there ironing listening to it... I really do love the sound of the rain, it calms me. On the plus side I think that my headache is finally going, on the minus side I have to get up early in the morning to take my Dad to the doctors **sigh**


The wind was so bad last night that it broke our gazebo legs (actually the plastic connector joints between the roof and the top of the legs)!! We seem to have bad luck with gazebo's... we lost one a few years back when it almost blew over next doors' fence and got all torn up, we lost one to the dreadful snow earlier this year (the sheer weight of it broke all of the legs) and the strong wind yesterday almost claimed another one, but we managed to fix it by using some of the parts from the one the snow killed, LOL!! So glad that we took in the expensive patio umbrella! Knowing our luck it would have been smashed to pieces or been blown away, never to be found again, hahaha.