I've have bought more new furniture today. There's been quite a bit of buying occurring in the last few days and I've just had a talk with my bank who have been caught by surprise because I rarely shop and they blocked my cards. But in recent weeks we have had a new television, a monitor for my computer, a new office chair and the desk that I picked up today. The piece de resistance was the acquisition of a new cooker range on Saturday which is due to be delivered when we have our new kitchen installed in October.
Earlier this year I purchased a new bbq once we'd had a weather forecast for a perfect weekend in April. We had a gas bbq with 3 burners and a side burner which has been put to excellent use over the period of the spring and summer. We needed to upgrade the old kettle charcoal bbq which was old, rusty and frankly too small. We only used it once in a while and only for the pair of us as it was not really big cook for any more.
What is really mad is that our garden has a purpose built bbq area which is an annexe of the patio, up a couple of stairs and has a brick base for putting a bbq on and a couple of shelves on either side and stone seats that line the boundary. And we've only used it once. We used to have a rectangular charcoal bbq which sat atop the bricks but was only constructed out of very thin steel and the bottom of it was burnt out in just a few uses. The one time we did use the bbq space was when we had a leaving party before we emigrated to Australia for a year and a lot of friends came and we had to have the patio space. And the reason why we don't use it frequently is because whoever thought of it and installed it didn't think it through and put it in the wrong place since any time you want to use it, the sun has gone round the other side of the house and is never on it anyway, which means that it's won't really warm up enough to sit on. It's a nice feature, just impractical.
Now we have a nice sized gas bbq but it sits on the patio and it not the bbq space as it has its own legs and there isn't really enough room up there for it. My wife is eager on an idea of building a terrace at the other end of the garden, as the grass over there is always a little shabby on account of the 3 Leylandii trees that stand there and take out all the moisture and drop their needles making the ground over there rather acidic. To improve that space would be good as it would be a motive to chop down of the trees which I'm amazed that the people who live on the other side of them have never complained as they must keep the sun out of their garden during the afternoons. Maybe they aren't great sun worshippers.
But that's for another day, what with replacement doors and windows in July and the new kitchen in October, that's definitely enough for now.
Earlier this year I purchased a new bbq once we'd had a weather forecast for a perfect weekend in April. We had a gas bbq with 3 burners and a side burner which has been put to excellent use over the period of the spring and summer. We needed to upgrade the old kettle charcoal bbq which was old, rusty and frankly too small. We only used it once in a while and only for the pair of us as it was not really big cook for any more.
What is really mad is that our garden has a purpose built bbq area which is an annexe of the patio, up a couple of stairs and has a brick base for putting a bbq on and a couple of shelves on either side and stone seats that line the boundary. And we've only used it once. We used to have a rectangular charcoal bbq which sat atop the bricks but was only constructed out of very thin steel and the bottom of it was burnt out in just a few uses. The one time we did use the bbq space was when we had a leaving party before we emigrated to Australia for a year and a lot of friends came and we had to have the patio space. And the reason why we don't use it frequently is because whoever thought of it and installed it didn't think it through and put it in the wrong place since any time you want to use it, the sun has gone round the other side of the house and is never on it anyway, which means that it's won't really warm up enough to sit on. It's a nice feature, just impractical.
Now we have a nice sized gas bbq but it sits on the patio and it not the bbq space as it has its own legs and there isn't really enough room up there for it. My wife is eager on an idea of building a terrace at the other end of the garden, as the grass over there is always a little shabby on account of the 3 Leylandii trees that stand there and take out all the moisture and drop their needles making the ground over there rather acidic. To improve that space would be good as it would be a motive to chop down of the trees which I'm amazed that the people who live on the other side of them have never complained as they must keep the sun out of their garden during the afternoons. Maybe they aren't great sun worshippers.
But that's for another day, what with replacement doors and windows in July and the new kitchen in October, that's definitely enough for now.
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