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Colindale, London, England // 5.47 pm // Light rain 13ºc / 55ºf

I can't help fearing we've now had our summer! The weather yesterday was beautiful - warm and sunny. In the past we have had some really warm Aprils, followed by a generally shite summer. It hasn't really happened this year, besides yesterday. Does that mean this summer will be sunny and warm?

Anyway, on Tuesday night I did the radio show. I prerecorded the emergency backup show first, which will only be played if I am unable to do a live show for that particular week, and I haven't been able to get into the studio earlier in the week to pre-recorded a specific show. As I started the show I thought about exactly what the circumstances would be if the show was ever played out. So I recorded it as if I had probably died! I made no secret of the fact that it was pre-recorded, and that something was probably wrong with me. When I asked for people to email in, I said either I would get them next week, or someone at the radio station will print them off and put them in my book of condolences. And I ended the show with an advert for a free slot on the radio station, Tuesday nights 7 till 8pm! All in all, it was pretty comical. I just wonder if it will ever get aired, and if it does I do hope it's not because I've had a run in with the front of a bus!

Yesterday after work I picked up a few bits and pieces for the dinner I was making. On the way to the shop to get those, I had to walk past a pub. The pub's beer garden was packed, at only 4pm, with people enjoying a nice cold pint in what was the first lovely, warm afternoon of the year. I just *had* to join them, so I did!

Eventually I got round to cooking crispy Italian chicken breast with polenta, green leaf salad and garlic bread. It was very much different to what I've cooked before, but was just as good. I had never used, or even heard of polenta before I made this, so I was particularly surprised to be able to pick up a block of it in Asda!

Over the last few days Elle and I have been looking at holidays. We are getting a step closer to book something. I've booked three weeks off work in late September/early October and we've set our sights on a few fortnight all-inclusive package holidays to various resorts in Cuba. We are going to go around a few travel agents on Saturday to see if we can cut those prices down. If not, we'll come home and book something online, and then go for a celebratory pub crawl from Edgware to Kilburn, down the A5!