In the summertime, when the weather is fine?

So is this it? Is this the start of summer already in Shepherd's Bush. The increasing numbers of string vests, flip flops and half-hearted picnics on the Green would seem to suggest it. Anyway, who really cares if this is as good as summer gets (a high of 26 degrees predicted today) as long as we try to treasure and enjoy it now.

After teasing my deficient levels of Vitamin D with a lunchtime walk around a sunny City, I was determined to enjoy the evening's sunshine so last night I left work on time and by 6.30pm I was on my balcony, in shorts and drinking a San Miguel.

Here is my balcony view in the early summer sunshine. Yes, early summer, I am ever the optimist.

This view is potentially boringly familiar to regular readers, but because it's one of my most favourite views and so much of it is Shepherd's Bush I have to share yet again.