A Playful Puppy

[lupestripe]

On Sunday we had our first BBQ of the year in sunny Stockport, where we celebrated Baloki's birthday. There were premium burgers, snausages (puppies like snausages), kebabs and nibbles (such as Chipz, Tesco own brand Pringles) with lots of high strength premium beer and a sickly but gorgeous white chocolate cake for dessert. Lots of fun! The first disposable BBQ didn't work, despite the copious amounts of lighter fluid we put on it, but the crappy one from Poundland did. We had to go and get another one midway through though, a proper one, as the coals weren't lighting at all.

We also met Baloki's neighbour who was looking after her son's sprocker spaniel puppy Bella. Bella was four months old and lots of fun, although she did confuse my foot with food and started to have a nibble. She was very inquisitive and loved the meat we were feeding her. She was very naughty and even tried to steal my burger! She was a lot of fun though and it was great playing with her - for some reason I get on well with puppies. Baloki's neighbour was nice too although she kept falling into the traps some elderly people do, bemoaning things like the youth of today, which is not really true for the vast majority of us. I can understand from where she got this view though and she was very receptive to my counter arguments.

Aside from that, it was great just chilling in the sun with some good friends. Entei-rah, Angela, Patter, Baloki and Miles were all there, the latter playing Japanese style video games a fair bit, which was interesting while Wolfie couldn't drink as he was driving. Silly Wolfie!

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I admit, I'm a bit squirrelly with the word "premium", given how widely it's been abused, though not to anywhere near the same extent as "gourmet". =:) Once something like Grolsch or Heineken gets described as a "premium" lager.. =:/

Whatever. =:D Sounds like everyone had a great time, and that's what counts. ^_^ (For burgers, you could try my reallyreallysimple recipe: very lean ground beef (5% or so), good splod of oyster sauce, vigorous application of freshly ground pepper, and optionally a dash of dark soy sauce. Can add a little minced garlic too, or a bit of chipotle paste, depending on preferences. Just fry that up, and it'll be very tasty, and remarkably low in calories!)

Tesco? =:P Workfare supporters. Not that I don't have anything to do with them, though my main spending tends to be with Sainsbury, Morrison, and Waitrose. AFAICT, S did involve with workfare, but don't; M, I'm not sure, but I think they're okay; W are entirely clean. Asda, of course, are alongside Tesco in being wholehearted, prime supporters. Not surprising, given their corporate roots, now long removed of their origins.

BBQ! Yay! It's always so hit and miss, when anything like that'll work out - great that it did. ^_^ Do you have space for a "real" barbecue? All the coals getting going, with different meats, fish, and vegetables on the various racks.. =:9 Such a brilliant means of cooking (and then there's long smoking..).

Stop me if you've heard this before (*cough*Malta*cough*Phillipines*HACK*), but are there photos? And are there any people won't sue to prevent publication of? =:)