BBQ

We had a cracking night last night-as always when things are not planned, things always turn out great!
Our friends Marion and Phil were calling by to pick something up and we decided to have a BBQ as we had stuff left over from the weekends BBQ's.
We had treated ourselves to a new chimanea and some new lights for the fishpond as well so it was a great opportunity to try them out.
Bill started off warming up the chimanea slowly as they can crack if you get them too hot too quick, and it was soon throwing out loads of heat.
We had some great food-lamb steaks, beef steak and pork as well-together with lots of lovely herb salad and garlic mayo--delish! One of our favorites if banans wrapped in bacon--its to die for!
Its quite amazing how the fresh air can make you eat!
As soon as it dropped dark the new lights went on in the pond--I am well pleased with them--the lights change colour and the water comes up in various fountains-the photos dont do it justice-the colours change all the time and were lighting up the big tree as well giving a beautiful effect.
We switched the underwater lights on as well and the fish had a great time-its a real treat for them!
The moon was huge and was behind the trees most of the night-very atmospheric.
The time flew by-and we set off one of our new red heart shaped chinese lanterns quite late on!
We cheated a little and held it over the chimanea to inflate it first and save the wax wick so it would fly for longer.
We would have loaded the car normally ready for the market in the evening but as there are no lights in the garage since the contractors managed to drill through the 4 cables 2 weeks ago when putting in the cavity wall insulation, we had to get up extra early to do it this morning--after going to bed at turned 1am and getting up at 6am to get loaded up for the market we are feeling pretty knackered tonight-so an early night for us tonight!