That's it finally, at long last, aye not before time summer is here!!! Aye, I know this because the paddling pool has been dragged out of the shed and filled up with freezing water, water that is meant to provide hours of fun to anyone that can take the plunge, and stay in it for more than ten seconds!
So the garden now turns into a playground and outside party venue, for as long as the sun allows. This is a note of joy to all, but with the wee one in particular as she would play outside from dawn till dusk!
Further evidence that summer has arrived as if the pool being filled was not enough comes in the form of the daily phone call from The Master chef aka the daughter, checking to see if she missed any calls asking her over for any BBQ that might take place.....well she has to eat something now and again that does not go ping!
The eighteen year old aka the athlete aka my son is walking about with skin the colour of a well ripe tomato, as he is too mean to buy sun screen and had been using the wee ones sun block before going to work thinking that would see him alright!!
The law enforcer aka the wife has dared to look out her knee length shorts and she is even risking the odd t-shirt, of course on day one she got third degree burns, as the skin had not seen sunlight in that quantity since....aye last time she got third degree burns!!
Aye summer has arrived!!
Sadly not everyone is just as happy as the rest of us about the sun parking outside all day, aye the ASBO gardener aka papa, he knows as long as there is sunshine on the go, the garden has sun worshippers in it, this in turn restricts his wee projects, as the chances of getting caught are off the scale to a man that is used to working in a stealth like manner sprinkled with magic dust of cunning!
So you would think all must be well in the household, as everyone laps up the sun, some more than others and the ASBO gardener aka papa is restricted to doing the wee jobs you would expect to see done in any garden, like cutting the grass and tending the plants.
Aye you guessed it the ASBO gardener aka papa likes a project and with the garden restricted he has turned his eye onto my wee jobs, the jobs that are outstanding around the house, you know the jobs, every house has a list of jobs that the law enforcer aka the wife has instructed should be done and in that situation there is a man who has acknowledged that the job needs done and has agreed to get right on it.......sometime in the future when he gets time!!
The range of these jobs are not normally too taxing on the DIY skills, lets be honest if they were the law enforcer aka the wife would not have given me them to do in the first place if they were, however when you have no DIY skills to speak of they become projects....cue the ASBO gardener aka papa a man built with that word in mind, add to the fact he is bored because the garden is too crowded for him and therefore at a loose end, well you get the picture!!
So the plotting is taking place at his secret hide out..... the garden shed, and disasters will be forth coming if the sun stays with us. Leaving me with only one solution, do the jobs quickly and efficiently pleasing the law enforcer aka the wife and removing all temptation from the ASBO gardener to interfere!!
ERRRR No..... more like phone the daughter invite her over, mix some drinks, put the BBQ on and have a ten second paddle in the pool after all summer only lasts so long and I need the law enforcer to realise just how useful I am after all!!!!!
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