Best stow it away again this evening.

Mind you, BiL used his massive gas range cooker last month in the rain as he is the one that cooks steak.

Max temp forecast was marginal here in S Lincs: lovely sunny day BUT overseas tours in hot places have thinned the blood. [The word is "nesh" in Yorkshire ............ I am nesh to the nth degree]

Settled for roast pork in the conservatory with the door open.

Anyway, the OFFICIAL start to BBQ season is/was 1st May, running to Christmas Day.

Lots of nice smells from braver neighbours sausage burnings though.

Bugger! May have gone off early then. As Channel 9 might have said the Shires were officially Scorchio on Sunday. Pre-season jet wash of the orb, followed by a couple of pints at the local and ended the day with chicken and steak over lumpwood! 2017 season currency check complete. :ok:

Black orb to be rolled out for 2017 this weekend.

Son-and-heir, Teeterettes and Grand Teeters all assembling at Teetering Towers for Easter.

Even the veggie Teeterettte will get bbq-ed fishcakes - by way of lump wood charcoal of course!

Nonsense. All year round, thank you.

Admittedly less so when the clocks are not forward, but it's lovely to have the smell of charcoal on a cold winter day, and better yet to eat BBQ smoked food in the depths of winter. I wouldn't bother with it for a couple of sausages, but for a beef joint or a bird, it's very rewarding.

Over here in the Fatherland it has been BBQable for over a month now and various cuts of the bovine and porcine kind have been suitably grilled.

Mate and Mrs mate from Blighty inbound to the Towers (Turms? / Schloß?) on Wednesday bearing gift of a leg of lamb. Thursday evening, the heady smell of BBQ'd lamb shall permeate through our small corner of Deutschland that shall forever (well temporarily) be British. :ok:

Roadster280 agree - a BBQ is not just for the summer - Grilling Christmas large fowl with snow falling is wonderful.

I did make the point that the season runs until Christmas.

My extended family all cook the Turkey [or whatever] on their Webers. It was the norm in JHQ because gas pressures fell abysmally on PutenTag .

We've had one of the wettest winters on record around here (which is saying something for an area known for the "Seattle Rain Festival":}), with a lot of wind thrown in.
But it's finally starting to get better they've got some nice looking pork loins at Costco so the smoker will be getting some action soon - perhaps I can convince the wife that smoked pork loin is an appropriate Easter dinner :O

Pork loin is fabulous on the BBQ ........... best if it can be rotisseried I think.

Good luck, and, by the way, Eastern UK is having a very dry spell, such that the spring gardens are a bit careworn. Our aubretia, of which we have a great deal, usually lasts late March to late May, but is already looking a little past its prime.

As am I.

Orb and man fire deployed and serviceable here in the borders to the Eastern Flatlands.

The "gentleman" along the road has a gas fired implement. His lounge is also incredibly well dressed with colour coordinated soft furnishings.

Sometimes I wish PPRuNe had one of those trendy "Like" or :ok: buttons.

^^^ what he said, it made me chuckle too ^^^

Does he bowl from the pavilion end as well?.............

But he plays for the other team I understand.

B@ggere - that's another keyboard.....

Oh dear, it seems that the manufacturers of the manly black orb, fired by the only true fuel, have finally accepted that gas users need to have their limp-wristed apparatus available in the appropriate colour:


Perhaps the 'gentleman' with the colour-coordinated soft furnishings already has one though?

You'll need a suitable apron to go with that :O

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I don't think that is in fact the style of apron that such 'gentlemen' might find attractive unless I have missed some subtlety in the 'downstairs' department.

Indeed - the 'downstairs' area of that garment does seem to have something of a....Bugis Street element about it....:ooh:

The weather guessers don't seem to have conjured up much in the way of barbi' weather for the holiday weekend, sad to say...:hmm:

I shall not be returning to find out. Suffice to say the manner in which I discovered the quality interior decoration of his lounge shall remain confidential.

Yours very manfully