Feels like summer

The amazing weather continues, and we are making the most of it.  After all, this is England and the rain could be back at any time (in fact they do keep forecasting it but it hasn’t eventuated yet).

Troy was again of great assistance in our appreciation of the summery weather, inviting us over to his place for Monday afternoon.  He and his partner Helen both had the day off, so the agenda was for a BBQ followed by rugby – a recorded Hurricanes game from the weekend.  This sounded perfect to us.  We spent the morning industriously, going for a brisk walk in the local woods and catching up with mundane tasks, before driving across to the other side of Bristol.

Troy and Helen have a superb view out over the valley that the Avon River flows through.  We couldn’t actually see the water as it is obscured by trees but that didn’t spoil the vista at all.  The deck was a wonderful place to sit in the sun, chat and admire the scenery.  Troy’s BBQ was a charcoal one and he reckoned it maybe shouldn’t have been used on a wooden deck, but since the base was sound we couldn’t see a problem.  The food was great, as was the company, and even the ‘Canes came to the party with a resounding victory over the Rebels (we did actually know the score in advance; Grant follows the Super 15 via an app on his phone).  Before we knew it, it was nearly 8pm and time to once more navigate our way through the city.  We think our satnav has an internal rule that it can only send us on roads we have been on before when it has absolutely no other choice.