Last of the summer... Sun?

Summer 2023 will be remember for its lack lustre appearance. Those balmy summer days filled with heat, sun scream and ice lollies for the whole street were disappointingly few.

Perhaps not helped by the fact both myself and my husband worked the entirety of the school holidays meant we missed out on our camping trip.

Even those days when you start out on the deck with a coffee, with the soundtrack of the birds and the breeze and you just spend the whole day sitting outside.

Hosting an impromptu BBQ or pool/hot tub for the whole street and its 10.30pm before you know it. Those just didn't happen this year. I'm sure I'm not alone in realising this, was there something fundamentally different this year? Was it the cost of living crisis? Was it global warming? Was it just a consequence of a growing family that don't want to spend all their time with their 'old' *GASP* parents?

I have came to realise that the world my children are growing up in and the world where I grew up in, although the same at surface level are very, very different. There is a disconnect between the built world around us and the natural environment.

they want computers, videos and food for instant gratification. I want to sit and be still to feel the sun baked rock, the sun on my skin. Yes, I absolutely love TV, I am a self confessed telly addict but I can go without and favour the green, natural environment. Modern living is incredibly manipulative and insidious in its pull away from that serenity I crave.

Can I still impart this love of nature to my children, I Hope so.

Maybe it all starts on a walk to the skate park or BMX track.