When there is no gas in the barbecue....

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Last night we picked up Vince’s brother and his wife and drove the short distance to a bus terminal where they caught a bus to Perth airport. At 6am this morning they caught a plane to Egypt and 24 hours after their departure from Western Australia they’ll reach their destination in Luxor. There, there will be an ecstatic meeting with their daughter, her husband and their four children. We’ve met the children often and one of our fondest memories is of the time we had a barbecue at Ironstone Gully Falls not far from us. There is a gas barbecue there but it was out of gas. So we gathered up some wood ….. but no-one had a match. Luckily we’d bought a newspaper as we came through town so we rolled up some of the real estate pages and lit the end with a cigarette lighter from the car. Vince then did an Olympic torch type run to where the wood was and we soon had a fire. But – what to use for a hotplate? We found an old roadsign that had been discarded so sat that on the flames paint-side down. Once hot, we cleaned it with oil and newspaper and soon we were cooking our sausages. When we manage to all get together this is one of the topics that always comes up.