I have picked up more new furniture today. There’s been quite a bit of buying occurring lately and I’ve just had a conversation with my bank who have been caught by surprise because I rarely shop and they stopped my cards. But in recent weeks we have bought a new tele, a monitor for my computer, a new office chair and the desk that I collected today. The piece de resistance was the purchase of a new cooker range on Saturday which is due to be delivered when we have our new kitchen installed in October.
Earlier in the year I bought a new BBQ once we’d seen a weather forecast for a fabulous weekend in April. We got a Gas BBQ with 3 burners and a side burner which has been put to fine use over the course of the spring and summer. We had to replace the old kettle Charcoal BBQ which was old, rusty and frankly too small. We only used it infrequently and only for the two of us as it was not really large cope with 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 steps and has a brick base for putting a BBQ on and a pair of of shelves on either side and stone chairs that line the wall. And we’ve only used it once. We used to have a freestanding Charcoal BBQ which sat on the bricks but was only made of very thin steel and the bottom of it was burnt through in just a few uses. The one time we did use the BBQ area was when we hosted a leaving party before we emigrated to Australia for a year and a lot of friends came and we needed the patio space. And the reason why we don’t use it more is because whoever thought of it and installed it didn’t think it through and put it in the wrong place because 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 won’t really heat up enough to sit on. It’s a pleasant feature, just not usable.
Now we have a nice sized Gas BBQ but it lives on the patio and it not the BBQ area as it has its own legs and there isn’t really enough patio up there for it. The missus is keen on a scheme of having a terrace at the far end of the garden, as the grass over there is always a bit tatty on account of the 3 Leylandii trees that stand there and drain out all the water and drop their needles making the earth over there rather acidic. To improve that bit would be nice as it would be a reason to cut down of the trees which I’m surprised that the people who live on the other side of them have never moaned as they must keep the sun out of their garden during the afternoons. Maybe they aren’t great sun worshippers.
But that’s for the future, what with replacement doors and windows last month and the new kitchen in October, that’s more than enough for now.
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