I Wish It Was Sunday, Because That's My Fun Day

I had a lovely day yesterday, so thought I'd blog it in order to preserve it for the archives of my history!  It wasn't particularly an amazing day insomuch as I didn't meet my idols or jump on a plane to anywhere my money in my pocket would take me.  But it was a fulfilling day, one of those 'chicken soup' kind of days if you know what I mean.  I woke quite early so spent a couple of hours curled up reading a book I didn't expect to enjoy half as much as I am (it's a book club book and not one I'd usually pick off a shelf to read, but I guess that's the point of book clubs).  Then I went for a wonder around M&S, and drove there with my car roof down, sun shining and Metallica's Death Magnetic playing ear bleedingly loud.  I digress slightly here to just write briefly about Death Magnetic.  Like the book, it wasn't an album I was expecting to fall in love with.  Quite often now I've found myself appreciating Metallica's work rather than really feeling something for it.  I *love* their early work, but later stuff not so much.  Death Magnetic has really grown on me without me noticing, and has become one of my favourite album purchases of the year for sure.
Back to yesterday.... I spent the afternoon in the sunny back garden belonging to Caroline and Ian, relaxing, laughing, eating barbeque, watching the kids running about enjoying the summery weather.  Despite the sunburn (which almost 24 hours on is still hot to the touch and somewhat lobster-y in colour), and not booking our holiday (because of the volcano ash thing) the afternoon was exactly what I needed. 
And from there I went to my parents to see my aunt and uncle who were visiting for the day.  They're the kind of family that isn't a hassle to be around, you can just relax and have fun with them.  I've not seen them since Christmas so was nice to sit and have a cuppa and a catch up with them.
The evening from then consisted of Time Team geekery and another hour or so of reading my book before having a really good night sleep (without nightmares and semi-awake hallucinations - hurrah!).
So that was my day.  Nothing spectacular as I said, but was a great day nonetheless.