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Can't have a barbecue this weekend :(

182 replies

StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2020 18:52

The shop I went to yesterday didn't have charcoal.
But never mind I'm sure when lockdown is over there will be endless weekends where its lashing down and we can barbecue in our jumpers and with brollies :o
(lighthearted)

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Hippee · 09/04/2020 21:27

3500, then I'll have a 10 minute window to shop. I am drinking wine though. It cold be a challenge. May buy a hot tub by accident, instead of a replacement gas bottle.

yoloPenguinsEatfish · 09/04/2020 21:30

mmm haloumi... we've got some from last year, still in date. Bloody love haloumi!

Tfoot75 · 09/04/2020 21:34

We had one tonight and will have one tomorrow. Why not? We also had a fire going in our chimenea. Dh has been burning garden waste in the chimenea this week as well, as our local tip is shut and we can't dispose of it otherwise. Heard nothing to suggest we can't. Presumably we're supposed to be sat in our homes crying for months on end about how terrible it all is rather than just, you know, making the best of things?

Clackyheels · 09/04/2020 21:37

Dont worry climate change will ensure summer is unbearably hot and terrifying as it was the last few years. You can fill your boots then.

GurlwiththeCurl · 09/04/2020 21:38

I don’t have the Coronavirus so far, but have had severe respiratory issues for more than a decade. The barbecue season is a nightmare for me. Breathing becomes very difficult and my chronic cough sets in. On bad days, I can collapse unable to breathe.

So, I’m not being a killjoy, just trying to stay alive! Please don’t light barbecues at the moment.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 09/04/2020 21:39

We’ll be having a BBQ, just the two of us. You need to do nice things to lift your spirits right now, if at all possible. Our neighbours won’t give a hoot and will most likely be doing the same if they can. Sod the fun police.

PepePig · 09/04/2020 21:39

fucking depressing, isn't it. Bet they'd all be moaning if their neighbour smoked a pack of B&H by their fence though

Na. Just you. There's a thing called wind.

I genuinely didn't realise so many neighbours are interfering, controlling, overly involved saddos until CV. Imagine actually trying to police your neighbour's legal and normal activities in their own gardens.

If you don't want people doing x, y and z, go buy a place in the country. Although you'd probably try and police the local farmer for moving sheep at 8am too!

drunkyhumptydumpty · 09/04/2020 21:42

We've had three so far and we are hoping to have one this Monday. Have you tried Amazon? I can not believe the depths people will go to to be miserable. It's competitive misery at times.
Well stuff you I'm going to enjoy my husbands cooking.

AllTheUserNamesAreTaken · 09/04/2020 21:45

I get serious BBQ envy when I smell someone else having one. I love the smell of it, it means spring/summer is here

We’re having a BBQ tomorrow (just the three of us) and can’t wait. It’s something to look forward to at the weekend . Thankfully my neighbours are not moany mcmoan faces, so won’t be bothered by it!!

We even lit a fire pit and roasted marshmallows in the evening two weeks ago as a treat for DS. Warned the neighbour so she could bring her washing in. Everyone was happy

everythingisginandroses · 09/04/2020 21:56

It's touching that you all know and care about your neighbours so much that you are sure none of them are at home with Covid-19 symptoms. Of course that's not really a thing, it's just 'competitive misery', isn't it. You bunch of wankers.

drunkyhumptydumpty · 09/04/2020 21:58

@everythingisginandroses we live in a brilliant place where our neighbours can shut their windows :)

If they have CV I'm sure they have more issues than my BBQ

chardonayforme · 09/04/2020 22:00

We're having one SundaySmileSmileWineWine

mbosnz · 09/04/2020 22:01

If we can shut our windows to their angry make up sex, circular drilling, the sounds of their family coming for Sunday roast, modifying their car, and their kids screeching up a new one, I think they're robust enough to take our barbeque.

GurlwiththeCurl · 09/04/2020 22:02

Bloody hell! So none of you care at all? Your fun could seriously affect people like me, but we are just killjoys?

IvinghoeBeacon · 09/04/2020 22:03

Yes we “talk” to ours daily as we have a whatsapp group for our road and are doing collective orders for groceries and bread from local providers, so we know how everyone is getting on. Isn’t that lovely?

category12 · 09/04/2020 22:03

So are you saying that no-one in your area should ever have a bbq because of your health, gurlwiththecurl?

drunkyhumptydumpty · 09/04/2020 22:03

Honestly. Nope.

It's bank holiday. We're stuck in. We seem to have created a tradition of BBQs on Bank Holidays and now DS is really excited for another one.

drunkyhumptydumpty · 09/04/2020 22:04

If normal day to day life affects you so much then you should consider a detached house in the sticks with no neighbours.

mbosnz · 09/04/2020 22:05

Okay, how seriously could it affect your health? As opposed to last year? Someone having a bloody barbeque over the fence, downwind?

IvinghoeBeacon · 09/04/2020 22:07

My father has less than half his lung function but has never had a problem with BBQs - bonfires and smoke from cigarettes, yes. Which isn’t to say that that isn’t the case for others with lung conditions, just that given my experience with him it wouldn’t have occurred to me that a BBQ would be a problem in the way that bonfires and smoking are.

GurlwiththeCurl · 09/04/2020 22:08

I have had a stroke and near heart failure last year. Chronic cough for more than a decade. I can smell bbqs through closed windows and they set off my cough. It is the type where I collapse, gasping for breath and can last for more than 20 minutes. I, and everyone who has witnessed one, think I am going to die.

But a “fun” bbq matters more! Or three or more in a week!

drunkyhumptydumpty · 09/04/2020 22:09

Well then as I said you shouldn't have neighbours. Your health is your responsibility. Don't make it anyone else's.

GurlwiththeCurl · 09/04/2020 22:11

Oh, it is so easy to move house when you are bedridden!

OK, I will leave the thread now as there is no point continuing.

maxicheddar · 09/04/2020 22:11

I posted on another thread about how unwell my DH is with an illness that might be COVID or another respiratory virus, and of course he is not the only one struggling.

I just want to ask you all to please reconsider having charcoal BBQs where you have close neighbours. Any of your neighbours might be ill and be like my DH who is going to find it even harder to breath with the smoke, and it will do him no good to be stuck in a hot flat with the windows shut either.

It would be one thing if everyone barbecued at the same time for an hour or so, but in reality it could be going on for quite a few hours day into evening, as everyone cooks whenever they feel like it. One will stop and another start.

Not being a killjoy, or miserable.. we love a BBQ. But it is for serious health reasons. It is no fun to all to feel so ill and struggle breathe. Especially when you can't see a GP in the normal way, and are wondering at what point you ought to call an ambulance. I can guarantee that none of you would want to feel the way he has for the last 4 weeks and he is still having difficulty and lowered oxygen saturation.

I know BBQs are fantastic but please reconsider whilst we are going through this virus.

dementedma · 09/04/2020 22:12

Am a bit surprised at all the BBQ love. Personally I find them a load of hassle, lugging stuff in and out, stuff either burnt or undercooked, loads of clearing up afterwards. Smells good, but not worth the effort for me.
Dh bought a gas fired one last year, God knows why. think we’ve used it about 3 times.