A party outside in April might not be the warmest and indeed it wasn't, we all sat in coats for the latter part while we watched Mark, Andrew and Paul cooking on the BBQ for what seemed like hours. With the kids running about it looked like an episode of Casualty waiting to happen, and it nearly was later on.
The food was cooked, if crunchy, so no worries about food poisoning and it was quite a good party on the whole. Sandra's birthday cake was pretty good for a bought cake as well. The only major downside apart from the cold, was the inordinate amount of smoke generated first by the BBQs and then the fire pit.
Things took a turn for the dramatic when Paul decided to put something on the firepit, not sure what it was but it was obviously highly flammable since it went up like crazy and caught the canister on fire. I actually thought his arm was on fire but it seems not. Not content with escaping Paul tried several more times to burn himself but to no avail.
After a bit longer sitting outside, freezing and breathing in lungfulls of smoke we finally headed inside and sat in the warm for a bit before going home... where we immediately put everything we had been wearing in the wash (even our coats!).
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