Bank Holiday
Monday, August 31st, 2020 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanToday was a good day - friends around for an appropriately socially-distanced get together in the garden. And we premiered the new gazebo, or BeRT (Big Red Tent) as Furtle has christened it:
Erecting the gazebo was remarkably simple, despite there being ample opportunity to catch fingers here and there. We elected to just have the one side enclosed to hide the less appealing side of the garden, whilst affording a decent view of the rest.
We knew Tanya was arriving around 5 minutes before she actually swung into view on account of the unmistakeable growl of her imported and hugely impractical Ford Mustang.
Tony and Tracy Lee brought their little spaniel, Fosco with them. She is always good fun, though understandably, Moneypenny was less enamoured by the idea and spent a great deal of time hiding in the lower part of the garden, or viewing the scene from the her vantage point atop the fence where Fosco failed to spot her. In the end, I took pity on her and lured her over with a few Dreamies, and then carried her into the house where the dog couldn't get to her. She then spent a happy few minutes driving Fosco mad, pulling faces through the glass.
It was a fine old afternoon of chat and barbecue, and once I'd managed to charge my Anker Soundcore, we even had a bit of music to listen too, as well.
After everyone had gone home, we decided to sit out under the gazebo a little longer and finish off the wine. As it got cooler, thoughts turned to the possible acquisition of an outdoor heater. I mean, we bought the gazebo right at the end of summer, so it's only logical that we should think about outdoor heating, right?
Right?
Erecting the gazebo was remarkably simple, despite there being ample opportunity to catch fingers here and there. We elected to just have the one side enclosed to hide the less appealing side of the garden, whilst affording a decent view of the rest.
We knew Tanya was arriving around 5 minutes before she actually swung into view on account of the unmistakeable growl of her imported and hugely impractical Ford Mustang.
Tony and Tracy Lee brought their little spaniel, Fosco with them. She is always good fun, though understandably, Moneypenny was less enamoured by the idea and spent a great deal of time hiding in the lower part of the garden, or viewing the scene from the her vantage point atop the fence where Fosco failed to spot her. In the end, I took pity on her and lured her over with a few Dreamies, and then carried her into the house where the dog couldn't get to her. She then spent a happy few minutes driving Fosco mad, pulling faces through the glass.
It was a fine old afternoon of chat and barbecue, and once I'd managed to charge my Anker Soundcore, we even had a bit of music to listen too, as well.
After everyone had gone home, we decided to sit out under the gazebo a little longer and finish off the wine. As it got cooler, thoughts turned to the possible acquisition of an outdoor heater. I mean, we bought the gazebo right at the end of summer, so it's only logical that we should think about outdoor heating, right?
Right?
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Date: 2020-09-01 06:56 am (UTC)Usually, though, when it gets colder I don’t want to go out in the garden and I’m wondering how much that will change even if there’s more warmth.
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Date: 2020-09-01 09:27 am (UTC)Ideally, of course, we would have bought the gazebo earlier, and got more use from it during lockdown - particularly the bits where it was warm but still rainy. Much will depend upon the type of winter we get, I suspect. Last year we barely had one. Five years or so, it remained polar until early May. No amount of outdoor heating will coax us out to sit in that!