Sunday

Debate sleeping in late this morning, especially after K gets up early and leaves me to it, but remember that the Malaysian Grand Prix starts at 9am so I shamble into the living room to catch the start. More and more it seems that the first corner is really the only part of most Grands Prix anyone needs to watch - especially now that refuelling has been outlawed and pit stops are shorter - so I only watch the first few laps before I get bored and start the day properly.

Today Ant is hosting the first barbecue of the year, regardless of the weather. Luckily it looks like being a fairly decent day and Sam is also down from Manchester so I invite him and his girlfriend (who I have yet to meet) along to the BBQ when they're done wandering around some galleries in town. We head over to Ant's house in Crouch End, armed with posh sausages (poshages?) and a handful of beers for about 2pm and commence making complex kebabs. I've never been much of a barbecue kebab man - hot dogs and burgers cooked outside are as complicated as I could ever need - but I get stuck in once they're done, particularly enjoying those chicken ones marinated overnight by Rick.

A few beers are downed, and when they need replenishing we go out to get more. Sam and his girlfriend (Laura: small, vegetarian, lovely) arrive on the bus from Turnpike Lane in beautiful sunshine and we spend the next few hours chatting nonsense about films and games and the many ludicrous things dad does as we usually do. Meanwhile I attempt to feed the vegetarian crowd some of Mike's morally reprehensible super-hot-chilli-peppers-stuffed-with-cheese-and-Christ-knows-what, which he finds hilarious.

It gets late and smoky and there's some dubious sweet whisky going around - then K reminds me that we have to get up early tomorrow morning to get the train to Worcester for her nephew's third birthday. We head home having succesfully celebrated the first appreciable sunny Sunday of the season, both looking forward to lots more in what will hopefully be a sweet Summer.