Yup – summer is on the way and for the second year running we’re having BBQs on the park! The first one was just a warm up and as per usual, I made an arse of myself.
Me, Steve, Pete and Sarah met up at Pete’s to go and grab the BBQ stuff and some beer. We went to Sainsbury’s and got about 40 burgers worth of stuff and then couldn’t find any disposable BBQs… Great!
We ended up driving around town looking in all the garages trying to find one and eventually found one in Lumbards, right next to Sainsbury’s. Not the best start but at least we had everything now.
We ditched the car and carried the stuff down to Bargain Booze to grab some beers and then headed to the park. When we got there I dediced it would be a genius idea to put one of the crates of beer in the river by some rocks to keep cool while the barbies where warming up.
Unfortunately when I went to get a second beer I found the box had broken and all my beer had floated away! I managed to fish four out and there was two in the box plus the two we’d drank so four had floated down the river.
I found one trapped by a tree trunk just out of reach so I thought I’d chuck stones at it to try and free it. After about 5 minutes I managed to pop the can and it slowly sink to the bottom of the river with bubbles coming out of it.
Me and Clint then wandered downstream to look for the other three and found two of them slowly floating down to where the river gets a bit shallow. Both of them got stuck so I paddled in to rescue my beers and found the third one as well! I got a few strange looks from the old folks sitting by the river – possibly because they were wondering why I was in a river looking for empty beer cans – who knows.
Hopefully the next one will go a bit smoother. Lessons learned:
- Take a bucket / bin to keep the beer cold
- Don’t listen to any of my ‘genius’ ideas. Ever!
