Best summer reads 2015 - win £500 of books!

Picnics and barbecues.

What an incredible selection of books! Certainly something for everyone there.

My favourite thing about summer is having longer days to enjoy. The short, dark winter days can be so depressing and anti-social. Being able to go for evening walks, or catch up with friends in the evenings while still enjoying daylight is wonderful and much more fun. Even getting up in the morning is so much easier when it's bright and sunny outside!

What a great prize! My favourite thing about summer is the long nights in the garden, with kids, candles and Chimnea!

Sitting in the garden in the evenings, surrounded by family, with the BBQ lit and a nice glass of chilled wine

Spending valuable time with my grown up children and grandchildren having family days at the beach with picnic or barbecue, playing rounders, and building sandcastles, I relish these days.

My favourite thing about summer is the longer evenings - especially if they are warm too!

The warm evenings, leaving the back door open, BBQ's with the family, lunch on the lawn, the fresh fruit in the shops, wearing flip flops with pretty painted toenails, feeling the sun on my face, wearing a dress, seeing people walking and happy instead of dashing to the car to avoid the rain. I love summer.

Mozzie bites. Daft I know but they always make me think I'm on holiday lying on a beach somewhere hot, even though I've just been bitten whilst mowing the lawn .

So many things! A few Gerard Manley Hopkins moments - dappled things - sun filtered through trees in my garden making a perfect circle of light on the garden path. Not needing the put the light on in the evening or draw the curtains. Gentle pearly skies, clear blue skies, amazing sunrises and sunsets. Eating an orange or peach and letting the juice just trickle straight onto the lawn off your fingers. Digging out my old gold shoes, once smart, now only worn on the beach, trodden down and full of stubborn sand from more and than one seaside trip.

A bonus - generally speaking, folks I deal with at work seem a whole lot happier and laid back!

Can't beat your summer holiday whether at home or abroad a chance to relax and catch up on some good books!

There are so many things I love about summer that it is difficult to choose just one, but if I must, I would say that it is the "summer effect" - everyone seems happier and more relaxed in the summer months than at other times of year. In the summer we have more opportunity to do the things that make us happy, like enjoying the light evenings, reading good books in the garden, taking our grandchildren to the beach - I could mention so many more.....

Watching Wimbledon with Pimms in hand.

The best thing about summer is having picnics the seaside with my family.

Great prize. My favourite thing about summer is the long evenings. I just seen to be so much more active in the summer whereas in winter I "hibernate" ��

love spending the evenings walking and sitting in the garden with the family

So many things! I love enjoying my garden,picking home grown fruit and veg and watching the flowers bloomimg.

The long days

Just love the sunshine and being outside, winter is too long.

I love that the schools are on holiday so my journey to work takes half the time-an extra 15 minutes in bed everyday! :-)

My favourite thing about summer is having an picnic in the garden with my grandchildren age 6 to 6 months

I love the light nights, the warm days. Sitting in the garden after a busy day watching the sun go down.

I love being able to go to the beach and swim in the sea

I love sitting outside in the sun with the radio and a good book!

My favourite thing about summer is having friends over for random coffee and cake, chat and catch up and enjoy sewing.

If the weather is lovely we sit outside if not enjoy my new conservatory and relax.

BBQ's & pimms