Shame, I was thinking of starting my summer barbecue and negroni consumption otherwise.
However, negronis when it's cloudy and 15 degrees just wouldn't feel right.
The old man and I completely forgot we'd put a cauldron of ribs on this morning (honey, garlic, soy sauce, claret). So when the children arrived home from school at teatime, it was beers and bread and barbecue all round. Token salad for the birds. Lovely.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."