Our new Weber grill
Till now, we’ve restricted ourselves to disposable barbecues from Lidl, but they are a pain – too small and useless if there’s any wind at all.
So recently I decided to invest in a proper Weber grill
Because of bad weather, we didn’t get a chance to try it out till now, but today Charlotte and I finally got it fired up.
There was a bit of wind, so our first attempt at using the chimney starter didn’t work out. We then moved it to a more sheltered part of the garden, and it then worked beautifully: Two crumbled newspaper pages and one match was all it took to start a beautiful fire.
The grill also worked really well, although the fairly large distance between coals and food meant it took a while to cook. I also think the manual’s specification of the number of briquettes needed was too low – I found it hard to use the whole cooking area.
But all in all it worked well, and its height made it possible for both Charlotte and me to cook on it.
New photo printer
The last printer we bought was a cheap one from Tesco that I couldn’t get to work under Linux and that broke down after a short while.
When we visited my parents in Denmark recently, we helped my mum set up the new printer the elders had bought for her.
It was an HP Photosmart D7160, and it impressed us: There were absolutely no lines on the printed photos, and the colours were great. It also had memory card readers and a small LCD screen for previewing.
So when we returned home, we ordered one for ourselves, and we got it a few days ago.
It really is a nice printer. A nice feature is that it can print photo on 10×15 paper without leaving any margin. And it worked out of the box with Linux.