Ah Summer`s arrived.

We all could benefit from a little sun on our backs. This week work has been a breeze because the sun has made everybody shine. Last week we went to Wales and stayed in a log cabin. I felt like I was in little House on the prairie! It was sunny, I woke up to blue skies and breakfast outside. We pottered around Port Meirion and went to possibly the best beer garden in the World looking onto the Rhinog mountains. Infact everywhere you go in Wales there`s a huge voluptuous mountain as if drawn by a child ,green lush and bulbous just waiting to be climbed. I was let off just for a few days and life was simple and wine soaked and sweet again. The children swung on rope swings and whizzed off on their bikes. Faint music from radios and barbecue smoke drifted into the cabin and we all ate together and were grateful to be a part of our family.
We went to Bethgelert and ate pistaschio ice cream and  sawtwo brides walk through the village in the sunshine to "oos' and 'aarrs" from all the tourists. We visited Gelert`s grave and read the legend of a faithful friend.
Centuries ago Prince Llewellyn ruled over Wales and had a loyal hound called Gelert. He went out hunting one day but Gelert did not join him. On his return he was shocked to see Gelert greet him covered in blood. He rushed to his son`s nursery and seeing the empty cradle and babe nowhere to be found he slayed his dog in a fit of  fatherly rage. Moments later the child crawled out from the up turned cradle alive and untouched and behind the curtain he found the body of a wolf which Gelert had slain protecting the baby prince.- it is said that Llewellyn never smiled again...
Wow! The love we have for our friends (furry ones) and family knows no end. In the sunshine we all feel alive again after the longest of Winters.I hope we all get a little sun on our backs this weekend and we count all our many blessings. Just waking up everyday is enough when the sky is blue.

Best brekky ever for a sunny day
Cava and orange juice

Toasted wholemeal bagel
Lashings of butter
smoked salmon
twist of lemon juice
black pepper
Scrambled eggs
3 large eggs whisked
drop of single cream
pinch of salt
chopped fresh chives

make sure your pan is ever so hot and melt a big knob of butter in it first, add the eggs and gently stir until pale and still creamy, take off heat to set, almost like a custard- pile onto bagel and top with salmon.
(Anyone who crucifies scrambled eggs in a microwave without salt will never be my tasse du the!!)

Eat your eggs sunny and runny and get outside to prevent rickets!