I’ve bought more new furniture today. There’s been quite a bit of buying going on recently and I’ve just had a phone conversation with my bank who have been taken by surprise as I rarely shop and they blocked my cards. But in recent weeks we have had a new tele, a monitor for my laptop, a new office chair and the desk that I fetched today. The piece de resistance was the acquisition of a new cooker range on Saturday which is timed to be delivered when we have our new kitchen installed in October.
Earlier this year I bought a new BBQ once we’d had a weather forecast for a fabulous 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 change the old kettle Charcoal BBQ which was old, rusty and frankly too small. We only used it infrequently and only for the couple of us as it wasn’t really big enough to any more.
What is really silly 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 pair of 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 made 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 hosted a leaving party before we left for Australia for a year and a lot of folks came and we needed the patio space. And the reason why we don’t use it much is because whoever designed and built it didn’t think it through and put it in the wrong place since any time you want to use it, the sun has moved round the other side of the house and doesn’t really get on it anyway, which means that it’s doesn’t really warm up to comfortably sit on. It’s a pleasant feature, just not practical.
Now we have a nice sized Gas BBQ but it sits on the patio and it not the BBQ area as it has its own legs and there isn’t really enough room up there for it. The missus is set on a scheme of having a terrace at the far end of the garden, as the lawn over there is always a little tatty 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 area would be agreeable as it would be an excuse to get rid of the trees which I’m surprised that the people who live behind them have never complained as they must keep the sun out of their garden during the afternoons. Perhaps they aren’t great sun worshippers.
But that’s for another year, what with replacement doors and windows last month and the new kitchen in October, that’s quite enough for now.
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