In England, we will take a tree, cut it down, remove the branches and the bark until we are left with a cylinder. Next, we will take the cylinder of wood and turn it on a lathe and whittle away until we are left with a perfectly formed bat. The bat will be cured and treated to strengthen it and then, when it is finally ready, we will use it to knock a leather ball around a park. In Scotland, they just throw the tree.

That is of course assuming that the rain allows us to to anything outside.

Another day, more rain, the grass continues to grow.  Sigh.

It has been a good day today.  We went to watch Despicable Me 2 which we all loved.  And until my wife watched the final of The Voice, she was in a really good mood.  She, like me and the bookies had expected Leah McFall to win.  So, all four of us have had a great day, rain and all, and that has to apply to the entire weekend really.