Best summer reads 2015 - win £500 of books!

In the summer I love to have my family over and have a barbecue. Chilling, eating and drinking in the garden with the people you love, you can't beat it!

Just like to feel warmth after feeling cold for so long, sunshine, happy faces my beautiful Blooming garden a good read plus pimms on the patio and a general feeling of wellbeing

I love hanging my washing out in the sunshine. In fact, I search the house for things to wash. Curtains, winter woolies, anything. Its just so nice not to have to use the dryer. I think it started with my daughters terry nappies.

The colours! Everyone brings out their bright happy colourful clothes. The flowers join in with colour everywhere. FABULOUS!

I love the longer days, so the curtains stay open, I love the light as it makes me feel happier.
I love the warmth, and the feel of lighter clothes, which are brighter and make me feel happier.
I love the blue coloured sky, rather than a grey angry sky it gives me more energy and makes me happier.
I love having time to read a book, without feeling guilty, it makes me so happy.

Now this is definitely my kind of prize.
My favourite thing about summer is the light mornings and evenings, being able to eat outside and enjoy the warmer summer weather for longer.

long summer evenings and wearing less clothes!

Summer is the time to relax, enjoy the great outdoors and spend time with a book. With so many great reads available I'm spoilt for choice! I always like to pass on any books I read rather than leave them to gather dust on a shelf, others can enjoy them too.

The light nights giving us more time to enjoy the great outdoors x

Take the chance to live outside as much as possible. Have meals out there even if it's not a BBQ.

The Harper Lee book - Go Set a Watchman - is out 14July and you can preorder from Amazon now - this one is also available on Kindle so I have ordered that.

Summer -the best thing - my birthday which usually means a long weekend away in the UK.

So much sport on tv in the summer. Wimbledon, The Ashes and lots of other cricket, some soccer, athletics, speedway, golf and more. I do not like being outside in the sun so watching sport indoors is ideal for me.

Getting up to daylight, getting dressed in comfy clothing and being able to go out without having to wear a coat. Freedom!

My favourite thing about summer is definitely being able to spend more time outside, especially with friends and family. Spending time in the sun has a very calming and positive effect on me

Sitting in the garden in the sunshine with my grandson, watching the iridescent bubbles from his bubble machine rising and popping in a rainbow of colours.

favourite thing about summer going up our allotment picking home grown strawberries,blackcurrants runner beans etc all home grown and so fresh and tasty

The light evenings, I can sit in the garden for hours in the evening x

bbqs with all the family round , watching the grand-children playing together and enjoying having a relaxing time

going fruit picking is wonderful in summer the children loved it and now the grandchildren love to come to ours so we can "go picking" strawberries hot in the sun mmmmmmm wonderful

walking down to the bottom of my garden very early in the morning to pick my runner beans and potatoes and then cooking them for our dinner!

It's hard to pick one thing, but the joy I get from looking round my lovely garden at the height of its June beauty is hard to beat!

I love to pack a good old fashioned nanny style picnic and head to the beach with my grandchildren !

Fabulous book selection.
I enjoy the fact everything seems easier and everyone friendlier.
It reminds me of the song by porgy and Bess. It's Summertime and the livin is easy.

At the moment it is having my two very small grandsons visit - and letting them do things they have never done before - picking and eating a pea pod, eating an ice cream, learning to drink through a straw, being allowed to 'team and ladle' with water in the garden. Lovely!