WAMUG BBQ — Sep 6th 2008
We decided that it would be prudent to take a couple of garden gazebos with us to cover the picnic tables so that we could be assured of staying dry. Jane & I arrived first and erected ours, dried off the seats and tables with a towel and were pleased to see that the breeze (for breeze read howling gale) had made them totally dry within minutes. Euan arrive soon afterwards and we erected the one he'd brought with him. Looking good so far.
We then turned our attention to getting the charcoal alight. First we had to deal with a small damp patch (for damp patch read one inch deep lake!) in the bottom of the BBQ. Having baled out we tipped in the charcoal, smothered it in lighting gel and stood back in anticipation of the flames roaring into life. We were not in danger of imminent incineration; the aforementioned gentle breeze saw to that but by judicious placing of attendees (we were now up to six!!!!) as a human wind break we managed to coax it into life. The much maligned gentle breeze was now our friend, whipping the gentle glow into a perfect cooking fire.
Sadly, that same gentle breeze picked up Euan's gazebo and hurled it into the forest. Now it seemed like a good idea to grab hold as it whizzed over my head in order to prevent it disappearing over the trees but with hindsight, having had no paragliding training at all, it was maybe not the best move as I was dragged backwards into the trees. While my fellow Mac users looked on in horror (for looked on in horror read fell about laughing) the other gazebo took to the skies too. Suffice it to say that we now have a small elite band of members who can recover and erect gazebos in minutes. We've had lots of practise.
With umbrella close at hand and often put to use, we managed to cook our lunches ranging from the ever present sausages through steak with sweetcorn followed by hot, whole peach in brandy sauce and sat down to eat showing our true mettle and British determination. By the time we'd finished, the sun was starting to appear just to prove that had we arranged an evening BBQ instead of lunch, it would have been glorious weather.
So, for the 90 of you who didn't make it, you now know what fun you missed.
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