After a rather disappointing late spring and early summer which saw us lashed on and shivering with severe storms and a frost that damaged crops, summer as now finally arrived. And what a pleasant weekend to get out and about to enjoy the sights and sounds of summer. A lovely weekend to enjoy the great outdoors. Saturday saw us out with friends at Coombe Abbey Country Park just on the outskirts of Coventry for a impromptu BBQ in the park. Who could not resist with all those wafting smells of food drifting up our nostrils. We found our spot which was hard to find as everyone seemed to have had the same idea. No need to supply any sounds as there was some Africans close by blasting out some rather pleasing bum wriggling sounds who could resist not having a little dance and a swing of the hips. A advice note on some decent speakers might have been needed for there next visit. After eats time for Jon and I to wander round the park while the children had a play in the playground. We walked down to the meadow and round by the heron lake and up to the top field where Spritzer took off after a colony of rabbits. Then we took a stroll round my favourite place near the red woods which looked ever more strikingly red as the evening sun began to set. Then we made our way past the Abbey which is now a hotel to the sound of wedding guests chattering away and clinking there glasses. The lucky bride and groom had a firework display laid on for them in the evening but was to late for us to stay and watch. With the day being so long we didn't realize the time so it was gone eleven until we all got home after our enjoyable afternoon and evening in the park.
Sunday was a quieter day and we decided to get away from the madding crowds of the country park and head for our favourite woods on the outskirts of the city. We all love these woods very different now from May when the bluebells where carpeting everywhere. The smells of the bluebells have been replaced now with the very strong sweet aromatic smell of the honey suckle. The honey suckle attracts the muntjac deer who like to eat it. You can often hear the deer barking in the wood one would think the sounds where dogs out walking with there owners but no dog or owner to be seen just the elusive deer somewhere in hiding. All thou we did spot one of these elusive creatures running across the road into the outskirts of the wood near the supermarket last week so they maybe not so shy after all. Other sounds on our woodland walk was a managery of birds of the sweet singing type to the ugly squaky type. If you closed your eyes for a second it wasn't too difficult a leap of the imagination to be transported to a Amazon rain forest. Above the canopy we could hear the occasional jet drowning out the noise with people jetting of to other climes a reminder as we wandered and got lost in the many acres of woodland that civilisation was never to far away. As the sun began to set we all set off back to the suburbs to reflect on an very enjoyable and rewarding weekend.
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