The Adventures of Nic

Of BBQs and Ice

It's been ~30 degrees for the last few days. No rain for an entire week. Wonderful! And it seems in this weather, the English go BBQ-crazy. I have been to three in the last week and am starting to turn into a burger myself.

In this hot weather, one also needs ice. When it's in a great big frozen block of it, inspired individuals decide that the best way to break it up into usable pieces is ... to throw it off the balcony.

Great in theory. Great in practice, if you get the angle just right and wrap it in 4 plastic bags so you can drink it once it's smashed. But when you don't throw it properly it and it just kind of skids across the courtyard... it makes sense that you would throw it down again, right?

Of course, this depends on having a person in the courtyard with the throwing ability to get it back UP to you on the 2nd floor balcony.

And if their throwing arm isn't too good, it's more than likely that they will actually throw a block of ice onto your neighbour's balcony. Smashing against the glass door.

Oops.

posted by Nic @ 8:38 PM