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"Absolutely nothing says ""Welcome to the huge Aussie back lawn"" quite like a barbecue by the swimming pool for family and friends. Oh, and do not forget the can of Aerogard!

Australia is a large, sparsely populated land with a lot of room for the traditional home; complete with big back backyard, a Hills Hoist clothesline and all the accessories required to benefit from our great weather condition.

And for a lot of Australians, a house would not be a home without the conventional dubious patio. From trendy inner-city balconies to grand outback homesteads, a pergola either surrounding your home or connected to among the walls is an important part of our cultural landscape.

Pergolas or patios serve a variety of incredibly beneficial functions, which probably describes their popularity. Here are just a couple:

Pergolas offer a shady, cool area to unwind during the heat of the day. You will often find pergolas built on to the side of your home which catches the most sunlight, so they act to show the extreme sun away from the home. Australia is famous for the 'excellent Aussie wave', or the movement made to whack flies and other flying bugs far from our face. That assists describe why lots of pergolas have lattice work features or are covered by fly screens to keep the annoying animals away. Aussies love to entertain, so it's hardly surprising that one of our well-known tourist mottos is ""Toss another shrimp (change that with the more acceptable Aussie colloquialism 'snag') on the barbie"".

A casual walk down any suburban street on a Sunday afternoon would certainly discover at least one in every 2 homes illuminating the barbecue for a Sunday banquet. And most of those barbecues will be tactically put under the pergola to shade the host as he ceremoniously burns the chops and sausages to a crisp.

More urbane Australians are choosing for an indoor/outdoor environment in their designer houses, which regularly leads to a connected pergola which supplies a basic entertainment/dining location and a centerpiece for family activities. Nowadays, pergolas are created as an additional space, with overhead shutters that can be gotten used to either deflect or capture the sun's rays. Some homeowners develop their outdoor patio areas to be completely enclosed while others choose to leave this area exposed to the aspects - and the cool afternoon breezes that drift in off the ocean.

Tossing a Pergola/Pool Celebration

A pergola/pool party is an integral part of 'coming of age' in Australia.

Whether it was the postage-stamp sized Clarks rubber above-ground swimming pool you waded in as a child or the current in cutting edge created pools that mould themselves into the horizon and appear like they go on permanently; everyone recognizes with the pool/pergola celebration.

Typically, the kids play 'Marco Polo' or any swimming pool game that needs regular, high decibel yelling and shouting, while the adults hang around under the shady pergola to sip from plastic glasses loaded with pineapple pieces laced with low-cost rum and masquerading as 'fruit punch'.

Occasionally you may find one adult who is game enough (or in the bulk of cases has over-indulged in the fruit punch) to leap into the swimming pool, totally outfitted.

However, it needs to be pointed out that a lot of adults who participate in pergola/pool celebrations show up with their swimmers carefully hidden under their party attire in case they should be unfortunate sufficient to find themselves unceremoniously tossed in the swimming pool. This tends to occur when a lot of guests have enjoyed excessive fruit punch.

What generally follows is a free-for-all, where the guests either take it upon themselves to jump in the swimming pool or are unsuspectingly thrown in, in addition to towels, rubber rings in the shape of huge tortoises and any garden furniture that's not nailed down.

In the bulk of cases, you'll find that as soon as the initial shock has gone away, a lot of visitors have a jolly old time wallowing while trying to find if Aunt Marjorie is really wearing a wig.

Following the frivolity, the sodden guests retire to the security of the shaded pergola area to attempt just another of those delicious fruit punch drinks and the host's charcoal grilled steaks and sausages.

And who stated they don't want a pergola or pool in their backyard?"