Cheerful spring/summer thread

Whoโ€™s feeling excited about spring/summer?? My soul is feeling lighter already!

:national_park: :sun_with_face: :icecream: :blush: :dancer: :sunflower: :beach_umbrella: :beers: :ocean: :sunglasses:

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Been sat in the sun all weekend and itโ€™s been fantastic.
Canโ€™t wait to go sit inside away from it all in 4 weeks too though :rofl:

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I messaged a friend to set up a bank holiday wine and Iโ€™m just absolutely buzzing for it. Saw my local friendship group for the first time in 4 months yesterday and it was amazing to just hang out with a group of people and laugh loads and chat shit in the park. Omg.

Might actually cry when I get my hair cut (less than 4 weeks to go!!!).

Iโ€™ve got the day off so Iโ€™m currently lying in a hammock in the garden. Pretty great tbh.

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Went for a drink last week with a mate, first time Iโ€™d seen anyone in six months, and found it weirdly overwhelming. Felt like I wanted to chat shit for hours but also had absolutely nothing to talk about?

Guess socialising is sort of a muscle that needs flexing and weโ€™re all out of practise. Was really nice to do something that wasnโ€™t just sitting around the house, anyway. A total relief.

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Nobody does really. Just gotta get pissed and talk nonsense until things start happening again.

I really need to make some granita

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Weโ€™ve started eating dinner outside in the back yard again. Lovely stuff.

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For the last 25+ years I play The Breeders - Saints repeatedly when itโ€™s the first day of spring/summer in my head.

I did that a few weeks ago or so during that two day so-called heatwave. Might do it now on the walk to my parentsโ€™ garden.

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Dr Mrs Epimer took her laptop into the garden earlier for a meeting to enjoy the sunshine, not expecting to have to speak. She got asked a question near the end and just as she went off mute to answer, a crow flew over her head giving it โ€œCA-CAW!โ€

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Itโ€™s unbelievable how much better it is to wake up from the sun peaking through your blinds, I absolutely live for it. Waking up with the sun always makes me feel fantastic!

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raining now

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Thank fuck

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I am making granita

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Went for a walk after dinner to see the bluebells, and also saw a heron, and heard a woodpecker.

(saw lots of swans, ducks, geese, coots and parakeets as well)

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do you live in the zoo?

Birdnet is a really fun app if youโ€™re walking somewhere wildlife-y, by the way. Itโ€™ll record a bit of your surroundings and try and ID the birdsong.

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The lightbulb in my kitchen is sort directly behind where i stand when i wash up so sometimes i miss a few bits when i wash up at night in the winter, so the spring evening means im back to my 10/10 washing up.

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Sometimes it feels like it!

Ahahahaha

Our woodpecker in the park is back too, I recorded it doing some woodpecking. When I picked our kid up from school this afternoon we went to the park for her to have a run around with her mates and I just lay in the sun, and it was amazing. So nice, all the blossom on the trees and the little clouds in the sky. Epic niceness.

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