Our first BBQ

Sunday 13 November. We'd invested in a new BBQ. $350 from The Warehouse (where everybidy gets a bargain), that's about £140 in old money. Its a wooden framed one like our old one (hope it's getting good use Nicky) except is a 4 burner, not 3, and it has a hood. Also they don't seem to go in for lava rocks much here, you do see them but nothing, a louvred diffuser or ceramic blocks are more common. We have ceramic blocks.

Our friends Sally, Shaun and their two kids came for tea (hadn't introduced them before, we met them at the first motel we stayed at on our 2nd day in NZ, they'd recently arrived from Norfolk. Shaun is a bricklayer, and also into the lifestyle block thing. They've bought a section (plot to you and me, a plot to NZer's is a grave) towards Oxford and are currently renting a 12 acre section in Rangiora, the next town).

Anyway, despite being really hot yesterday the skies open. I tried to do the Pom thing and was out there with a brolly, but when it rains it really rains (the road gutters are a foot deep) and it was a losing battle so the BBQ was moved into the garage and we finished cooking there.