#95

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Yesterday's Nice Thing: Our first BBQ of the year

Cash came over yesterday and we had a BBQ in the evening. I have to confess I had wine then regretted it later. I am so over drinking. Really, I am.

Very annoying things happened with the car...sigh...

What else? I am finally regained my strength. I know I have because I am now making plans.

I looked at the seeds yesterday and had so much respect for how they push so hard out of their beings to create using sunlight and water a new plant. How mad is that? And that they give us new life. I don't know what else people want if they don't want trees and seeds and sunlight. Do we need anything else?

Seeds, sunlight and someone to love. To create something out of nothing, what more do you need?

So, we sat in the garden yesterday - I ran out to get BBQ things as soon as the sun came out - put on music and got my faithful wee BBQ tub started. It is literally a bucket I got from Tescos about a million years ago and it is still here after all this time. I have made many wonderful BBQs on it - using all kinds of sticks and bits of wood. BBQs are so simple and straightforward and wonderful. Whenever the BBQ gets started up I know it is the SUMMER.

Well, sort of.

Then we danced and talked and gossiped. It was so so cool. Ghin went home with Shane. It was really funny cos he said, why am I taking your kid? And I said, cos I do teaching as a full time job and I would rather not have more children in my house, thank you.

There is nothing like BBQ food, although this archetypical taste of summer has been somewhat undermined by us constantly doing Forest School.

I did go running yesterday too - and I felt good enough to extend it later on today - can't wait. I think the weather is supposed to be good today. Cleaning toilet, laundry and gardening. Hoovering house. Having being out of the house all the time, I just want to be in it all the time when I can too. So that's nice. Right, I am off now... back to bed. Just woke up to pin down thoughts running in my head. Also I am really proud that I have kept up with the connection of writing. Tomorrow it will be piano and other things added to it. Slept enough, dozed enough, rested enough - feeling stronger now.

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