The BBQ Surprise

Hi, I'm Ben a Butler2go. My day job is an IT consultant, but at night, that's when the fun really starts!  Butlering is an easy way to earn whilst I party. I'm fair haired, 6ft 1" tall and the ladies all tell me I look pretty fit. They're probably just being kind about that, but I do have to work out most evenings at the gym to keep my muscles looking toned and I have to get plenty of sun to maintain my year round tan.

Early last summer  I was asked to serve drinks at a BBQ at a pretty little country cottage in Gloucestershire - at a party that a young lady was giving for her best friend who was getting married. The stone cottage was beautiful with roses all up the front and a very quaint rickety fence, single storey and spreading a long way back into a gorgeous flower filled country garden with two Nubian goats happily chewing the grass lawn. The stocky Polish chef was warming up the charcoal BBQ with a hairdryer when I arrived and by the time I came out ready changed into my butler gear he had huge clouds of smoke billowing out everywhere and people were rubbing their eyes.      

 I could see the guests all desperately  needed a cool drink to sooth their parched throats, so I quickly whipped round with my tray of bubbly and suggested they might like to move to the furthest corner of the garden away from the smoke. Over there everyone had a much better time and I  started to take orders for cocktails. Having mixed up several I took them all out in one batch and was just bending down to put the tray on a handy tree stump, when I felt warm breath and a soft touch on my cheeks. I whipped round in surprise only to find that one of the goats was innocently eating my apron strings!   I hope she enjoyed them, the BBQ looked like better fair to me.