Hey There
It’s been a while since we’ve updated so I thought I’d give you a rundown of recent events in our lives…
Saturday we had lunch with some people from church at one of the lady?s houses. Lunch was good, then we had a couple hours of British sports. Ash and I each took a stab at crazy golf (miniature golf) and badminton, but decided to leave before we got sucked in to lawn bowling. It was fun, and hot, maybe the hottest day of the summer. And of course I thought it was going to rain so I was wearing long sleeves and feeling pretty sweaty.
After that we went home, got a book to read, and went to Holyrood park to enjoy the sun. By this time it was about 5pm and as soon as we sat down it started clouding over, but we stuck it out for a while. When we returned home there was a message from another guy from our church inviting us to a BBQ at someone’s house who lives kinda near us. We decided that would be fun, plus British folks tend to have a hard time with the old BBQ, so we went. A good time was had by all, hanging out with folks and eating chicken wings (no, not like buffalo wings, just the regular chicken wings with not much meat on them) and funny shaped hamburgers.
Sunday we went to church, came home and had a relaxing afternoon, went back to church were I was leading the evening service, and then hung around church with some people afterwards. We got home at 10:30 and Ash realized that she was supposed to be back by 10 for the online book club chat, oops! So she chatted for a bit, and then we went for a walk since it was a relatively nice evening. Amazingly people were still out and about on the Royal Mile (everything usually closes by 6 at the latest, but it’s festival season). We got home around midnight and were pretty tired, so we hit the sheets in preparation for another week.
So there you go, our weekend in it’s thrillingly international splendour!
August 16th, 2004 at 8:05 pm
So, what kind of shape where those hamburgers?
August 16th, 2004 at 9:23 pm
Well they were round, but almost too round. They must have been forced out of some sort of hamburger-extruder-thingy. I passed on the burgers, by the way.
It’s kinda funny, they sell these single-use BBQs here. We bought one but can’t afford meat to cook on it yet
August 16th, 2004 at 11:37 pm
Round as in spherical, or just round as in perfectly circular? I guess it’s the latter, but I’m just making sure. I’ve seen some ball-y burgers.
Single-use BBQs?! What the heck? What renders them useless after one use?
August 16th, 2004 at 11:49 pm
Round as in biscuit shaped. They are biscuit-burgers. Yeah, that sounds appetising.
They work like this: there is a little container with charcoal in it that looks kind of like a thing you would cook a turkey in. The grill is attached to the top. I suppose you could pry off the top and put in more charcoal, but that is probably against some regulation.