Might just get one in tomorrow 2nd July .............. pretty desperate stuff though, sunny intervals, showers, Max 18, gusts 30.

Need to get on with things or some of the grub will be out of date.

We are told that temperatures are about average for the time of the year .............. so why do my short fat hairy legs not want to come out and play?

Just been in Spain for son's wedding and a few days' R&R (4 day wedding party!) in Nerja. Lovely. Now back in France - it is cold, and even tried to rain this afternoon. Where is "Summer 2016"?

Indeed! I blame that bag of wind Boris Johnson and his 'Brexit' cronies...:mad:

But summer appeared in time for the blackfellow to demonstrate the magic of the black orb again last evening!

I blame the gloom and doom on the dour blinkered bremainers.

Anyway, obviously bought a Weber Genesis to celebrate Independence Day.

Did a leg of lamb last weekend. Much better smell of roasting lamb waffling around the garden

We managed to hack it between showers, with bratties and sauerkraut for a starter.

Sister-in-law is a bit nesh so we ate in the conservatory with all the doors and windows open.

Huge volume of Becks consumed by my prospective grandson-in-law, quite remarkably he appeared sober throughout.

The glorious British summer strikes again....


What have we done to deserve this? The black orb has been distinctly underused of late :(

It was nothing to do with Brexit because the rot had set in earlier!

I don't even bother with the oven for legs of lamb any more. They always go in the Weber in indirect mode. Lumpwood charcoal only, obviously. I must experiment with doing roast spuds in the foil drip tray this weekend.

Well, the weather-guessers have been muttering about some decent summer Wx next week, so with any luck there might be more than a few Weber-tastic days...

Pork, chook and (tonight) bratties mit bratkartofflen und mayo-senf have found themselves on the sacred black orb of late - fingers crossed for a few more decent days yet!

Your duty weather-guesser is back in the UK from places south and east so he also wishes for clement wx and a following wind.
I have designs on a massive loin of pork done rotisserie-wise propelled by 2 D cells.
Because you're worth it.

I have a dilemma and am seeking expert advice from experienced ‘Weber’teers on here. My trusty black One-Touch is, due to age (Xmas pressie – RAFG 87), poor maintenance and neglect, rumbling towards the recycler. A leg is loose and drops out if carried, the wooden handles are rotting (one just fell off) but it does have a nearly new grill and still works perfectly. Should I repair it and soldier on, or should I break this out from my garage rafters: My “new” One-Touch Plus (Red with wooden handles) bought as a WMR spare on repat to the UK in Dec 90.


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I recommend that you check the 'new' Weber first, to be certain that it hasn't also rusted in the 26 years since it's been sitting under your garage roof....

Is the oldster's wobbly front leg just loose in the socket, or is the socket itself rusting away where it attaches to the kettle? If the later, it will need rather a lot of repair work, which doesn't really seem worth the effort, given that you probably have a serviceable 'new' barbi' ready for use.

I reckon that is a "first" - a guy with a replacement barbie nearly as old as my youngest son, and bought when I was under 50!

Our first Weber disgraced itself "in the middle" in Portadown Way, JHQ. In summer there was a weekly gathering of the willing, under an old brake chute strung between the trees.

To save drinking time most people lit up at home an hour before the trysting time and then trundled the cooker out into the middle.

As did I, not noticing the wobbly leg .............. which fell off at the critical moment and spilled the fuel onto the dry grass and set it alight.

Most of Portadown were too busy laughing to do much fire fighting.

The current bright red one exhibits similar vice but I am ready for the bugger. Once bitten twice shy.

A commemorative firing up of the black orb will take place at BEagle Towers, as soon as the weather gods allow, to salute the passing of CoffmanStarter who is sadly no longer with us.

RIP

And indeed the ceremony took place.

I hope that CS spotted the commemorative smoke, flames and general barbi' mayhem from his place in A Better Place and raised a wry smile.

I had the same idea Beags but the weather has turned sour here. Maybe next weekend will be better.

Although he literally has the moral high ground now he is still a gassist and I shall raise a plastic glass of Babycham to him :)

Hey...


A toast to the late CS!

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN....
 

The sun is shining, the grass has risen and the birds have announced that Spring is well and truly here!

So today the trusty black orb has emerged from hibernation to salute the season. Nothing too ambitious today though - just some Boche-nosh of Bratwurst mit Bratkartofflen und Senf, washed down with Hefe-Weißbier of course!

Cooked over lumpwood charcoal, not that fuel of Satan's backside...:=