Hi, MrB! Great minds think alike - my trusty blackfellow was woken up fromLhibernation on Monday, which was also the occasion of the first Flymo walking session of 2018.
Mine is smaller than yours
at only 47cm (or for brex****ters, 0.0023364 of your Little Englander furlongs). But it has the clever ash catching thing, a vast improvement over that blasted hubcap on spring clips of my original version - which was also bought in a BX and lasted around 24 years before succumbing to wobbly front leg syndrome and daylight around the leg supports about 6 years ago.
First light-up will be this evening and will be accompanied by a litre stein of Hefe-Weißbier, I think!
For some odd reason, Weber seems to have stopped selling the 47cm One-Touch Premium model with the ash-catcher though
... Bearing in mind that the volume of a Weber is proportional to the cube of the diameter, the 57cm model needs much more charcoal than the 47cm model!