So this is summer

1. Summer - Yes summer definately arrived this week its been sunny & hot for a few days but no point us getting used to it cos the rain showers are on the way. At least I managed to get some gardening done although the lawn needs cutting.
Trouble is when its hot and humid its impossible to sleep at night, we are not really geared up like some countries with air conditioning in every home. All you can do is sleep naked and sling the covers off, I was gonna post a photo but why should I give you all a laugh.

2. Weight Loss - Don't think I've done too well in the last week or so, had a couple of extra nights out and just sort of feel full. I don't think I've eaten that well although not that badly either but think I need to start counting calories again.
Saying all that I've been doing a few TT training sessions in preparation for the coming season and its been going well I think. I've entered a Veterans summer tournament in Halifax in a couple of weeks so that will be a true test of how its going. I am pleased though cos no signs of the tennis elbow or gout in fact no aches & pains at all, feel as good as anytime in the last 3 seasons.

3. Idiots - The people who have reponsible jobs in our country have again let us down, apparently the Passport office have lost 12,000 blank passports, fantastic thats half of the third world that will be on its way to burdon our society.

4. Comedy Moment - We'll finish with a laugh again with another fantastic sitcom "The Good Life"
Created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, The Good Life's four series from 1975-8 are remembered, according to the Britain's Greatest Sitcom poll, as our 9th favourite laugh.
Constantly available on UKTV, it's a must visit for anyone interested in British sitcom.
On his 40th birthday to be precise, Tom Good decides that he's had enough of the rat race and that he and wife Barbara will become self-sufficient.
The pair convert their garden into a farm, get in the pigs and chickens, grow their own crops and on one memorable occasion, try to dye their own wool with nettles.
Tom and Barbara would just be lone loons were it not for their neighbours, the henpecked Jerry Leadbetter and wife Margot, a social climber who cannot bear chickens wandering the back garden.
The Good Life attacked the middle class and the 'alternative' lifestyle at once, showing Margot's snobbishness as blindness, and Tom's fanatical self-sufficiency as going too far.
Examples of Tom's pursuit of natural alternatives leading down the wrong path include his attempts to make a methane-powered car that continually breaks down, as well as the problems Barbara and Tom have trying to kill their chicken, forcing them through pride to make a 'sumptuous feast' of a single egg.
The Good Life was remarkable for the consistent characterisation. Though initially dominated by Tom, Barbara was soon balancing his mad schemes with pragmatism and comforting his occasional lapses into depression. Jerry's mocking derision of Tom's step sideways become grudging respect, and even snobbish Margot was human and real.
The series showcased the talents of Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington and made all three of the latter into solo stars afterwards, with Kendal becoming a sex-symbol (still is, let’s face it), while Keith in To The Manor Born and Eddington in Yes Minister created roles that were to become even better known than their Good Life creations.
Briers went on to create possibly the saddest small-screen comic character of all time, Martin Brice in Ever Decreasing Circles.
The thirty episodes of The Good Life became household favourites, and are still enduring icons of their time.
In a good-natured, light-hearted way, they showed how hard it was, and is, to be different to those around you, and the kind of courage it takes to be so.

Here is some short clips to laugh at :-