these things are brilliant... cost about a quid, don't need specialist equipment and actually light and cook the food before the weather changes! Not quite like having BBQ'd fresh king prawns, chicken wings and satay, but there has to be a reason or two to visit Singapore over the next few decades!

we came back form today's shopping via my parents and Mum volunteered to feed us so we had typical English food for Spring - stew and dumplings! It was just right on such a damp day.

as for the drought, we were living in Lincolnshire then so it wasn't as bad, and no, I'm just a teensy bit too young to remember it, but I remember it being talked of when I was a kid. Us Brits - moan when it's wet, moan when it's too hot...! Jenny would laugh at us complaining - how on earth they can manage on their rainfall when soggy old England has drought warnings I don't understand!

Kerri.