Sometimes my Greek genes kick in and I get an urge to stuff things with meat.

Geranium Rosanne is taking over the garden. Amazed at how well she's done this year.

The boy discovered a pebble today. Totally flummoxed him.

This heat has wrecked my beautiful hanging baskets 😞

Trust me to book a cruise the one week a year when Lanzarote weather gets like this.

No reserving sun beds until 9am. Nice

First time with a swim up room. And it's heated.

Result! Boarding complete and we've got a whole row of 3-3 to ourselves.

Finally! It will be nice to see them back at Gatwick after all these years.

Some quirky carriers at LGW nowadays.

Baked birthday cakes for my colleagues before I go off on annual leave.

Feels like an apt way to spend the evening.

You're welcome. Hope you had a lovely time. The best time to visit again is October for the jacaranda trees.

Every home town’s got the ominous megastructure. What’s yours? Not the biggest building in town but certainly the most ominous. As kids we thought it was the Nandos head office because of the rooster. It is actually the headquarters of the ruling government party.

Maybe one day he'll learn some basic table manners.

I'm trying to solve it but as an avgeek all I can think of is

Best thing we ever bought. Better than the Mercedes. Better than the dog.

The daylilies have arrived. That's everything in the garden in bloom at last.

Failing on immigration he says. The numbers suggest otherwise.

It's been months since I last baked anything. Attempting to scratch the itch whilst keeping to the diet with these Slimming World chocolate and apricot brownies.

He seems happier with the donut.

He doesn't seem to keen on wearing the cone of shame.

Vet day. Sorry boy.

Best result we could have hoped for was achieved. The scale of the win was needed to prevent the media creating a narrative that Restore were splitting the Reform vote. Such a narrative would take UK politics into a very very dark place.

I was always captivated by these somewhat graceful triangular geometric towers that we had back in Zim. Seeing them towering above the landscape and wondering how they don't fall over was always a highlight of road trips to Kariba, itself a man-made dam that created beauty as well as electricity.

I know the feeling. Where I grew up every house had an acre of land. Didn't realise what I had until it was gone.

Found some more. They get everywhere.

Maybe I should start disposing allen keys when I buy furniture from now on. I think I've probably got almost enough now. The big ones are in the toolbox.

Yep. Heathrow to Johannesburg on the A380 upper deck economy. It's cheaper downstairs but it's 3-4-3 layout down there. The return from Cape Town isn't much better especially as we want the only set of 2 seats at the very back of the A350. It's an Avios points booking so can't moan really.

How much!? And that's just the outbound leg.