When we first moved into our first home last year, we knew that the garden was going to be the part of the house which would take up the most amount of our time, hardwork and money to do up – mainly due to the following reasons:

1) It slopes.

2) It’s divided into 2 tiers.

3) Only the top tier has any decent sunlight on it.

4) As a result, the bottom tier is now all muddy due to the lack of sunlight and the drainage issues due to the sloping tiers.

So really, it’s been just short of a year since we moved in and I can safely say, we’ve never really been in the garden…I mean, actually been in it and enjoying it.

However, it was an absolutely lovely day today ( brilliant actually, by British standards). The sun was shining and it felt amazingly warm and J was suddenly overwhelmed with the need to have a BBQ in our half-sunny-half-muddy-sloping garden! Needless to say, we have absolutely zero BBQ equipment or furniture.

We jumped in the car, drove to Tescos and bought some meat, some tongs and an instant BBQ kit. Once back, I quickly whipped up a potato salad while J laid the garden with blankets and got the BBQ started (it wasn’t as instant as I thought it would be).

And we had our very first barbeque in our very first garden!

I have to say…the food was brilliant and we had a really nice afternoon sitting around our little BBQ kit, eating, talking and enjoying each others’ company while feeling the warm hot sun on our backs.

I simply cannot wait to sort the garden out this summer…with a proper BBQ kit and proper garden furniture…and have many more blissful Sunday afternoons like this.