Barbie time
The hottest day of the year so far coincided with a long-booked visit of some good friends to stay for the weekend.
Cue a rather frenetic Saturday afternoon spent cleaning the house... It had been far too long since its last real clean and so really needed a good clean.. coupled with the fact that it was the second hottest day of the year meant we were knackered....
After the cleaning - I then had to de-tranny the house. I'm not too bad, most of the incriminating things (boobs, wigs) are contained in my office in a few plain looking boxes... Clothes are in the wardrobe and look like they are my wife's. But I just had to make sure that all boxes were well wedged in..... They brought their two toddlers with them, and they took ages to get to sleep. Occasionally one would come downstairs and claim it was too hot etc... I was in fear of one of them coming down with a false breast that they'd just happened to find..... Get out of that one....
It's the little things I had to remember - like the drinks mat someone once gave me (I was a little drunk and can never remember who) which say Joanna on it... I use it all the time on my desk, but it would be hard to explain to someone who didnt know about Jo just why I had it... Also post its with reminders about the Angels site etc...
So anyway... the house was successfully de-trannied. And things went well.
On the Sunday we decided to have a BBQ... only problem was that my BBQ from last year was already on its last legs last year, I had hoped it would have one last hurrah, but when I looked at it there was no way we could use it.....
So first job of the day - off to Homebase for a new BBQ.... got a very nice gas one - cooks from the side rather than below so it doesn't clog up... very nice indeed.
Second job of the day - assemble aforementioned BBQ..... Doing my best not to get sunburnt while at the same time keeping track of all the bits and making sure his two toddlers did not move any while we were not looking. And I think we did a very good job.. the only hiccup was with the supporting struts.. looking in the plans they should have been a crosspiece of about 18 inches in length that would screw in at the top and bottom of the legs to make things more stable... The one in the box was about 9 inches long! We managed to screw one of them in horizontally rather than as a cross piece... Still, seems OK ;-)
After that is the traditional BBQ experience of preparing far too much food than we would ever eat in a week.. And then spending the next few hours trying to work out just why we did so many jacket potatoes.. and wondering where all that bread came from.
I love BBQ food though - its just a shame that the Great British Summer never gives us enough opportunities to have one.
Cue a rather frenetic Saturday afternoon spent cleaning the house... It had been far too long since its last real clean and so really needed a good clean.. coupled with the fact that it was the second hottest day of the year meant we were knackered....
After the cleaning - I then had to de-tranny the house. I'm not too bad, most of the incriminating things (boobs, wigs) are contained in my office in a few plain looking boxes... Clothes are in the wardrobe and look like they are my wife's. But I just had to make sure that all boxes were well wedged in..... They brought their two toddlers with them, and they took ages to get to sleep. Occasionally one would come downstairs and claim it was too hot etc... I was in fear of one of them coming down with a false breast that they'd just happened to find..... Get out of that one....
It's the little things I had to remember - like the drinks mat someone once gave me (I was a little drunk and can never remember who) which say Joanna on it... I use it all the time on my desk, but it would be hard to explain to someone who didnt know about Jo just why I had it... Also post its with reminders about the Angels site etc...
So anyway... the house was successfully de-trannied. And things went well.
On the Sunday we decided to have a BBQ... only problem was that my BBQ from last year was already on its last legs last year, I had hoped it would have one last hurrah, but when I looked at it there was no way we could use it.....
So first job of the day - off to Homebase for a new BBQ.... got a very nice gas one - cooks from the side rather than below so it doesn't clog up... very nice indeed.
Second job of the day - assemble aforementioned BBQ..... Doing my best not to get sunburnt while at the same time keeping track of all the bits and making sure his two toddlers did not move any while we were not looking. And I think we did a very good job.. the only hiccup was with the supporting struts.. looking in the plans they should have been a crosspiece of about 18 inches in length that would screw in at the top and bottom of the legs to make things more stable... The one in the box was about 9 inches long! We managed to screw one of them in horizontally rather than as a cross piece... Still, seems OK ;-)
After that is the traditional BBQ experience of preparing far too much food than we would ever eat in a week.. And then spending the next few hours trying to work out just why we did so many jacket potatoes.. and wondering where all that bread came from.
I love BBQ food though - its just a shame that the Great British Summer never gives us enough opportunities to have one.
posted by Joanna @ 6/20/2005 03:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
At June 20, 2005 6:22 PM,
Jane said…
You can't blame the great british summer on not having bbqs. When my parents bought our first one, the GBS decided to turn cold so we ended up having one with my Dad stood outside in the rain with my Brother holding an umbrella over him. Our next door neighbours in the states would bbq in the middle of the winter. Mr Newsome would stand up to his knees in snow in his artic coat carefully tending the meat while the rest of the family waved at him from the warmth in doors!
That's what I call a dedicated barbequer!
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