Fräulein and I fell in love with each other…. sorry, I got carried away for a moment, it was with a with a stone built barbecue. The barbecue was red and white and ours for a little over 200 euros. We asked if we could collect the barbecue in pieces. No came the reply, it arrives in one piece.

We searched our wallets and found the money. Happy days. The delivery was promised for Wednesday, so we went to the butchers and bought sausages, steak, pork chops and WINE.

On Wednesday morning, with barbecue tongs in my hand I eagerly awaited the delivery of our new barbecue, what arrived was a jigsaw puzzle, a very heavy jigsaw puzzle, without any instructions.

The delivery driver, helpfully pointed out that we should paint the barbecue with special paint (that was very expensive) and glue it together with special heat resistant mastic (also very expensive). Oh what joy, Fräulein and I grilled the meat we had bought in the oven and contemplated our new jigsaw with a couple of glasses of wine.

With exceptional teamwork and minimal arguing we managed to glue and paint our barbecue, Saturday was looming closer and we were getting very excited. Fräulein turned out to be a pretty good painter, I have decided her next project will be the bedroom walls…

Some donkey, obviously not Fräulein or me (it must have been the ghost of our house) painted a internal piece white instead of grey.. Tsk tsk. There are no recriminations in this house. As the barbecue started to take shape, we bought some more meat and wine to replace the stuff we had eaten and drank three days before.

During the evening we settled down to a nice bottle of wine, a little food and sat admiring our work, even the mosquitoes took the night off and didn’t bother us. Content, does not explain how we felt.

Today we heard not one bang, but two. I instantly knew what the problem was, after all I have in the past attempted to tile a bathroom wall and been rudely awakened to the sound of tiles falling onto the floor.

Needless to say, Saturdays barbecue has once again been cancelled and we will again grill and eat the meat. But don’t worry my dear friends in bloggo land, because on Tuesday we are going to Munich to celebrate Oktoberfest. Fräulein has bought a Dirndl (a sexy traditional bavarian dress) and I have bought some Lederhosen (sexy leather pants).

We might upload some photos… after we rebuild our barbecue and burn some meat and drink some wine with our friends.