It's not all real estate

I know that, in a blog covering lots of houses we haven't liked enough to buy, the whole can come off sounding pretty negative. But our life isn't actually like that. Here's me this morning after breakfast:

(note the coffee mug half-full of wine).

And then, after lunch, we went driving in the countryside. Everything is in bloom nowadays, including the poppies. We just had to go out and run around.

But it was a hot, thirsty day, so we stopped for drinks in a charming village next to a really nice river, and some very cool old bridges.

And then we came home. Dinner needed to be cooked, a fire needed to be built, and the warm bright evening begged us to play. Oh wait, that was Kepler begging us to play. So we played. Life is good.