Thailand. New BBQ, New Hairdo, Golf and a Rabbit.

Well I had been thinking about getting a BBQ made for a while now as often I go to my friend’s house for a BBQ but I cannot really repay the father as we have a tiny little grill that just cooks enough meat for 2 people little only 10.

I had been given some information about the local prison selling BBQ’s that the prisoners make and we went there and checked these out but the quality was very poor.

My mate Keith was at the market and noticed a new looking BBQ or griller that was made out of a 44 gallon drum and went and asked where it came from. After some explaining and people going here and there a person with enough English gave him directions to where we could buy one from and it was only 800 metres from my house.

So my mate, his wife and I headed over to have a look at these BBQ’s and it was exactly what I wanted but just a few things different from the design they had there. The way they had made the 2 for sale were more for roasting or like an oven than grilling and barbecuing.

So, after speaking to the owner of the business, it is like a Steptoe’s and Sons back home. He is of Chinese descent but has been in Thailand since a small child so speaks Thai and Chinese Mandarin and also English pretty well.

So after some explaining in Thai and English of what I wanted and a mud map was drawn up, we agreed to the design and I was told he would ring in around 5 days when the BBQ was finished.

The call came and I went to pick up the BBQ with my friend Keith and there had to be a few adjustments. The bars across the BBQ that was going to hold stainless steel grill had been forgotten to be put in but this was taken care of and a few hours later it was finished again and looked great.

So my BBQ had been cut in half and three heavy duty hinges had been welded on the back and a safety catch made to stop the lid slamming close.


This is a good heavy duty drum and best of all was very new so it didn’t have a lot of rust.


I sand papered and also used steel wool on the inside of the drum to remove the small amount of surface rust that was in there. It took me maybe an hour to do this and prime it for painting.

I used a heat resistant stop rust paint that can withstand 1200 Fahrenheit. I want this BBQ to last a few years so I hope a little TLC will help me do this.


I sanded any sign of rust off the entire BBQ and then painted the entire BBQ in the heat resistant rust stop paint.





It was a bit of hard work but I enjoyed it and am looking forward to finish painting it tomorrow. I am hoping to give it a burning on Friday, just a test run and then actually cooking on it maybe Saturday night. I want to make sure I am not going to kill any of my friends with toxic fumes first.

A while ago I adopted 2 rabbits from my mate Keith. This is what they looked like way back just a few weeks after they were born.

The two rabbits were brothers and Noot named them Latte and Mocha. They would stick together wherever the other went. In this picture Mocha is the very fluffy rabbit closest to the camera.


Sadly Mocha passed away suddenly just recently and for no reason that we know of. I went to work and Noot to University and when I came home Mocha was on his side stiff and dead. This was at 4.15pm and Noot and last seen them at around 1pm. I have searched the web for answers as I had researched for hours and hours before and also after we had taken the rabbits on as pets.

I read rabbits can die very easily if frightened and also sometimes they can just die. He had seemed fine and been eating and his shite was normal and not runny. I thought for weeks it must have been something we had done but Latte is fine and nothing has changed in the way we care for him. It’s a sad mystery that we won’t solve.

Noot went to the hairdressers today and I went to golf. She had her hair straightened and it took over 6 hours and also cost 900 baht. That’s a lot of money in Thailand but again hat price can you put on beauty.

Noot was very shy to show off her new straight and shiny hair and a Hello Kitty pillow was hiding her face.





Latte is actually the King of the house and spends most of the day running about the place. He can be very mischievous at times but if you watch him and when you raise your voice he stops what he is doing. Here is his keeping an eye on Noot and looking at her new hairdo.




He likes a kiss and a cuddle and will come up to you for these.He really is a people friendly rabbit and this is what Keith and his wife Sarah said when they visited the other night. Latte is a house rabbit and is around us so much that this is common for him I suppose and isn’t scared of people. Isn’t he handsome?


He often comes into the bedroom to where I am on the computer working and hops about the place. He used to be allowed on the bed and he loved this as he would whiz around really fast and was funny to watch. One night when Latte and I were watching TV I thought I seen him getting ready to pee, and I was right. So after that Noot said he isn’t allowed on the bed.

I read on websites about training the rabbit to listen to you and also putting the rabbit into a trance and I laughed and thought it was a load of crap. Now, I can tell you it isn’t. Latte will often sit on my lap upside down while I type away and surf the internet. He will go into what is just like a trance or deep sleep and will stay like this for a long time.

This is how I have him when I trim his nails and the first few times were hell and very stressful for him until I mastered putting him in this trance like state. Now I can trim his nails in no time and also by myself and he doesn’t even bounce around.

You see it is a tuff life being a rabbit in Isaan country Thailand.

Brunty.