Summer begins peeping its head round the corner..

It may only be March but signs of summer are starting to emerge - finally.

Ok so for the first time this year, I woke up on Saturday morning at 6:30am to get ready for work, I opened the curtains and saw two things. Firstly, it was daylight, and secondly it was sunny without a cloud in the sky!

This may not seem like a huge deal initially but it means that spring, but more importantly in the long term, summer, is not too far away anymore. After a long and cold winter - the sun is the perfect cure for all those dreary months spent inside drinking hot drinks. 

Do not get me wrong the view from my window is still bitterly deceiving. There's not a leaf on a tree yet and as I unfortunately realised as I trudged towards the bus stop an hour later - it is still bitterly cold out there and the scarf came out much quicker than I would have wished. Never the less the nice weather puts a positive spin on everything and on the bus journey to work it became possible (and realistic) to have a quick daydream about the summer and all of the benefits that come in tow with it:

• less layers - lets face it we are all bored of wearing a vest, a t shirt, a jumper and then a coat on top. As the weather gets better you really begin to appreciate the joys of being able to go to the shop in nothing more than shorts and a t-shirt!
• breakfast in the garden - personally, waking up in the morning and then having a huge breakfast sitting in the garden under the parasol is about as good as it gets as far as breakfasts go.
• drinks under the sun - yes, as the days get longer then something else you begin to grow fond of is long evenings where it doesn't get dark until 10pm spent in a nice beer garden sipping on some cider. Lovely. 
• people in generally better moods - to me it is undeniable that when the sun comes out to play humanity as a whole becomes nicer! This positive factor disappears when everyone is in a hurry to get home because it is so damn cold out on the street. 
• a time to travel and go on holiday - I have always associated the summer with going away for weeks at a time to another country and chilling at the beach, while it being the music festival season makes it even more exciting.

So, it may only be early March but surely it is never too early to start thinking about the summer is it? Considering that I live in England too, where the summer is not even a certain guarantee!