I prepared dinner as soon as I arrived home from work and put it in the oven to cook whilst I went for a cycle ride in the early evening sunshine. The weather was perfect and I wished I could have stayed out a little longer but I was on a time schedule. The veg needed turning on after 40 minutes. Despite my best intentions I was a little late back due to getting into conversation with a lady who was walking her dog. Seeing me on my bicycle had inspired her to go home and pump up the tyres on her bike so she could go for a cycle ride tomorrow.

I turned the oven down and the veg on when I arrived home. Whilst the veg was cooking Mr C laid the patio table ready for dinner whilst I sorted out my cycle helmet hair! It is always nice to eat on the patio but it is not quite the same without the backdrop of the branches of ‘My Oak Tree’ blowing in the breeze and catching the sunlight in its branches.