First ice cream of 2013!

Perhaps you're wondering why the ice cream spoon seems to be as big as our heads. It's not easy for two people to take a photo, when they're balancing two ice creams and an iPad in their hands! But Gabriela and I enjoyed our first ice cream of this year... and especially enjoyed the fact that it was a warmish sunny day. The weather forecast had threatened rain all week, but so far it's poured all night long and then been sunny and windy during the day. Today I did my annual "dismantle and wash" of the vacuum cleaner - which means I'm taking the risk of assuming that I'm not going to be vacuuming ashes out of the fireplace for the next seven months or so. Before you know it, I'll be sleeping with only one duvet instead of two :-)