simple pleasures

today in birmingham, england the sun shone warm and friendly...
as i have spied rain on the weather horizon i decided to slip the gym to lie in the back yard getting some much-needed vitamin D...
the only problem with this is that i don't have any garden furniture, so after making do with a stool yesterday and grappling with a beanbag today i opted for a sleeping bag on the ground - not the comfiest oftion but certainly the easiest and a successful hour of sun worshipping was had!
once my sides were evenly toasted i took a break to get a drink and a snack...
it felt like beer weather and i'd gotten a case of small euro-beers from the supermarket when we had friends over for the beard party recently because they're only a small glass size just perfect for sitting in the garden sunshine for, that along with some pistachio nuts i read an old weekend supplement* and thought to myself "this is the goodlife"
for all the bad news** flung at us everyday i hope that it wasn't just me taking a break form modern life in the sunshine today... i certainly hope that any poor bugger made redundant recently had a chance to soak up some rays in the midst of job-seeking!
on a day like today its easy to remember that human beans can be simple folk with simple needs, trouble is we create so many problems for ourselves that we lose sight of the real easy stuff...


*there are simpy never going to be enough weekends for me to get through all the reading material at the end of my sofa!
**daily mail writers you know who you are!