The sun is shining

Somehow I (or we) often feel that the Dutch weather is bad. But today the sun is shining. There's a very strong wind so I'm not sure how many enjoy this, but I do.
Last week I handed it in a first version or draft of my thesis and it needed quite a lot of work, so here I am, sitting in the sun, near my mum's pond (which is by the way, losing more and more water everyday) to read up on contact linguistics...