The biggest damned barbecue you ever saw

Michael's gone all Australian on me and has bought a huge barbecue... For those of you who remember the amazing Smeg A3 range cooker we had in Woodfield Road, I think this is bigger! The photograph is with the lid down, but if you lift the lid you find a metre-long rotisserie spit (with powered motor, so no hand cranking the thing round and round!), and an infra-red set-up that will cook things 'conventionally' while you barbecue on the front...

The reason for having the barbecue is two-fold: firstly, the cooker in the house is unbelievably awful, and secondly, in the hot summer it's much better to keep the heat of cooking outside. We've had two meals on it so far: roast chicken last night, cooked on the spit, and spare ribs tonight - and both were delicious, so despite the fact that I would undoubtedly have bought a smaller model, I think Michael's done the right thing. And after all, he is the cook of the house!