We achieved another major milestone in the American Lifestyle Experience yesterday with the purchase of a large gas barbeque. Obviously we have a long and colourful history of barbequeing, with the Emsworth influence, but we have never cooked with gas before. However, we thought that this would be the way ahead out here so we can have bbqs after work easily. We visited "Barbeques Galore" in Palo Alto, where the salesman soon spotted an easy upsell opportunity and talked us into a larger model than we had planned. It took us* two hours to put the beast together, but finally we were able to christen it last night with a pair of big steaks. We think February 6th is a new record for the first Smith barbeque of the year**.
* i.e. Pippa
** although we did cheat by moving to a warmer continent.