[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-bank-holiday-monday":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"So we made barbecue! We had one of those titchy foil things you get at the supermarket and it was pretty smoky. But Ed's a sculptor and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.edwardsmith-sculptor.com\">very good at making things\u003C/a>, so he came up real quick with this little smoke stack contraption. Which kind of worked, 'til it caught alight.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ed_smoke-7a3ebad488.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe had the best bbq fixing ever, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.reggae-reggae.co.uk\">Levi Roots' Reggae Reggae Sauce\u003C/a>. (No this isn't a product placement, it's just really, really good. Too good, urp. Apparently it started with a guy's stall at the Notting Hill Carnival.) We managed to miss the rain showers and sat out on the patio with their oil lamp and had a really nice long chat, the kind you have when your belly is full of reggae reggae sauce. Hello, summer! \\r\n\\r\nEd and C are two of my best friends; Ed ran the House gallery in Camberwell with me for six years so we have seen a lot of things together and he'll still talk to me. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hammerheadrabbits.com\">Dan\u003C/a> built his website and mine, and he's another one who'll still talk to me after all those gallery shennanigans, involving bath tubs full of baked beans, a bomb threat, unpermitted but dramatic nude tableaux vivants, unnatural electrical rewiring, five thousand potatoes, a Routemaster bus, strange things happening in the loo, and opening lots and lots of bottles, among other things. We all still have a slight stagger when we walk. (Some other friends took it over when we finished and turned it into a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.house-gallery.co.uk/\">splendid cafe with the gallery moved downstairs.\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stu_cafe-fcd002e564.jpg\">\\r\nStuart had the bank holiday off work, but I didn't, so he came along with me on my morning coffee run, this time to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thegreenwichphantom.co.uk/2008/09/rhodes-bakery.html\">Rhodes Bakery\u003C/a>. We noticed they'd framed my drawing and hung it on the wall. \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/148035.html\">(That was the 'perfect job' I blogged about earlier.)\u003C/a> It was a little weird but great having him along with me on something I usually do by myself. And I'm still getting used to his new specs but they are really growing on me. Stuart could probably put a wet squid on his face and it would grow on me, he is rather lovely.","2009-05-26T12:15:00.000Z","bank-holiday-monday",[],"bank holiday monday",1776628732587]