next door has bbqs in february

[southeastastra]

i think it's unreasonable

ghosty
you are very sweet no offence taken just banter ..
if you flick some tasty fish and veggies on the coals (?) i'll get packing then....

i was assured by bossy sil and bil they were the bqq'ers and it was just all charred and samey and no thought for non meat eaters..
every fecking night we had to do it, it just got rammed down my throat, along with the uber funny not heard them before non meat eating jokes

its just scary round here,
they play with fire and flammable liquids and food they dont seem to know what to really do..

oh was meant to ask, crikey ..is OP in camden?
cause she's not been back...
(there is huge fire there right now, surely it cannot have been started by the February BBQer)

lol, dee, they do sound a bit of a nightmare...and there are a lot of lovely veggie bbq options out there...and if I had a veggetarian coming I would make very sure everything was seperated (i.e whatever is bbq'ed for them will not touch the bbq itself, to avoid meat contamination,etc...
there are some lovely things you can do with bbq meat/veg on top of sliced lime/lemon, and some herbs, that would be put on the grill directly and then whatever goes on top...adds lovely flavour!

Ohh Dee, why didn't you say you were a veggie?? Of course it would have been horrible being presented with charred chops and sausages every night ...
My DH does a fabulous marinade for prawns for the barbecue (olive oil, chilli flakes and the juice of a lime, with salt and pepper to taste) ... just divine daaarlink ...
when are you thinking of coming over

We live on an estate with really small gardens. During the summer every nice weekend someone has a bbq. There are 5 houses in this block and another 3 side-on to ours, so even if they only have one a month each that is at least one a week. If we are really unlucky the people next door one side have one on Saturday and the people the other side have one on Sunday.

There is the smell of the gas or whatever as Dee has said. The smoke. And the added bonus of a whole bunch of visitors, with lots of noise, music, raucous shouting and cigarette smoke. Every weekend.

We have a low fence between us and one side (can't afford to replace it). Their visitors sit along it and stare into our kitchen. If I go outside to get the washing in they watch me. Last year they thought it would be clever to bark at our dog (WTF) and really wound her up (wonder if it would have been so funny had she jumped their fence in response?). These bbqs start at about 10am and go on until 11pm or later.

It means we can't use our own garden at all. My washing gets coated in their smoke. We can't even open our windows.

So I suppose it's not bbq per se but the selfcentred gits who have them I wish our council set a time limit. If you live right on top of your neighbours it would be common courtesy to think about the effect on them of your social life.

ha ha
we haev them ALL YEAR AROUND
in fact we had one toaday sitting outside to eat

was just blogging baot it
i bbq int he dark
inf act i just regard it as part of my cooker

god there are miserable sods on this thread

why cant you cook it inside and eat ourside

sheesh!

dh did our souvlakia on the BBQ last night

it was yum

in fact we had a BBQ on 6th Jan - I started a thread about winter BBQs

I agree evenhope. A bbq would be ok if it was simply cooking and eating outside, it's just that some morons seem unable to do that without shreiking at the tops of their voices, puffing their way through a pack of 20 and all to the sound of dance music pounding away at 500 decibels.

The first barbie of the year is always by a SOuth AFrican - it's like the daffodils coming up - first sign of spring.

Dee Rigeur - sounds like your neighbours are pyromaniacs