Weekend again!

Well would you believe the english weather is approaching something like summer? No well OK then, nearly summer. At least the wind's dropped, rain's stopped and it's improving. It's strange to get the sun up before 5 am and not get dark till dont know when. Did a bit of Dadly gardening where I make a huge mess trimming everything and someone else (Alan) mysteriously clears up the debris later. The weather definitely hit summer this am had a lovely walk on the beachfront and Katie and I agreed the water was definitely warm enough for swimming... but it was going out. Tomorrow perhaps, who knows. Of course I forgot the camera for pictures in the park. While strolling along with all the Houghtons Penny and Jemma streaked past to go for the standard 30 min walk to the end (end of what i am not quite sure, probably the end of the beach walkway, after a wall I think it turns into a road or something.) the weather sort of folded later in the day though. Anyway we,d been up to a few things during the week. Katie's sports day, where everyone is not able to win anything, (a bit of communism still lurks in various parts of the system here) which made it a bit tedious really. We did go to "springalings" with little Ben and Charlie Viz:
A bit of fitness training for mums I think. They seem to be doing all the work here!
We went to Portsmouth to do shopping during the week as I said. We interspersed this with walks down the road to get something or other from the local Co-op and actually went at one stage to the local library where apart from a load of kids books heavily influenced by Roald Dahl we picked up just about all the Paris guidebooks! We followed up the shopping this Saturday by again shoehorning everyone into the large car and going off in the other direction to Southampton. Definitely bigger Malls there!
Of course David and Jane came over several times. and today, Sunday, we had a sort of picnic in the garden, look:

And then we had full scale tea. No holds barred.
David seems to be enjoying life here and appreciated greatly by his employer. Last night and this was lots of fun. I think we may pack this little parcel and take it home, what do you think?