A lovely summers afternoon :o)

Today has been a lovely summers day!

We actually had a full day of sun, and no rain!!!!!!!! So we decided to make the most of it......Well you have to! We live in Manchester, and seeing the sunshine is a rare sight! We usually get 2 nice weeks of sun a year, and if were lucky maybe 4 weeks! 2 weeks in the spring and 2 weeks in summer! (well that's how its been for the past few years!)

It's actually quite funny, the slightest glimmer of sun and out come the shorts, the BBQs, and most of us end up red raw as we have soaked up too much sun, and we end up sporting some very fetching white lines too! Ha!
I don't think that's just us Mancs though, I think that's us Brits in general!

Our neighbours are no exception, they were out in the garden from about 9.30am, shorts on, sun loungers out, ready for a day of sunshine!

Well - Due to how rubbish the weather has been recently, our garden isn't looking its best, so spending a day in it really wouldn't be much fun at all!
Gardening is the other half's chore, and as he was working for the morning there was no chance the garden would be in a nice enough state for us to enjoy the afternoon....

So I spent the morning chilling with the little man, which was nice, we had a morning of playing and dancing about the living room.
The little man is a right little mover ha ha! God knows where he got that from, I dance like I'm wrapped up in cling film (the other half calls it the worm dance) and the other half dances like he belongs in an 80s music video ha ha ha! (Sorry love!)

After a nice Mummy and Son morning, the other half arrived home from work at about 12.30, and we head off out for a lovely family afternoon :o)

We head to Lymm where we have a lovely stroll by the canal, there were tonnes of boats on the canal. It seems one of the local cruising clubs had something going on....The other half actually used to be part of the cruising club as his parents used to have a boat, so as the boaters go past he lets on to them all and tells me little stories about them while I give them a polite smile.

During our nice afternoon stroll we fed the duckies and fish, as well as eating ice cream, what more could you want from an afternoon?
I reminisced about some of my childhood memories. (My Grandad lived in Lymm before he passed away and we had many happy times feeding the ducks, nice walks... although sadly I didn't appreciate it as much at the time..... I even lived there for a while.)

Afterwards we decided to go for a drink which finished off our day nicely!
The little man seemed to really enjoy the day he was so excitable when we got home :o)

Just a perfect summers day.........