Starving Artists
A perfect end to a perfect week: my breadmaker died.
It’s only a few months old, so I phoned the manufacturer, who said I should return it to the shop and they’d replace it - but the shop no longer carries that model or anything similar. So the manufacturer said to tell the shop to send it back to them, and they’d send me a new one. Of course I don’t have the box, and I have no idea where the receipt went, so we’ll have to see if the shop cooperates.
And I had to make my bread by hand 
- well, no, really what I did was use the food processor and then just shape it and bake it in the oven, so it wasn’t actually all that onerous, and my title might be a slight exaggeration 
The boys did pictures for this week’s Illustration Friday (see? there’s the “artists” bit from the title), and spent some time on the computer, as well as being surprisingly helpful - George in particular. In fact George hasn’t had a meltdown all day - I don’t think he’s had one since yesterday morning 
Long may it continue.
Barney and Scratchy went to basketball this evening, and Barney came home very pleased because he’d been allowed to play along with the junior team. They’re all at least a couple of years older than him, and he was appreciative of the fact that they were being kind, but also very happy to have been able to join in 
I’m told that archery went well yesterday too - and the bloke who runs the club was in a Very Good Mood Indeed, since they’d attended a junior tournament last weekend and the club’s juniors had come first in 13 of the 14 competitions
I’m trying to think of what else has happened this week, because I know I haven’t blogged much about what we’ve been doing, but I’m drawing a blank. Must try harder
Tomorrow is the usual swimming-and-trampoline stuff, plus the usual try-to-get-this-done-on-the-weekend, so I think I’ll head towards Nod now
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Oh no, RIP breadmaker
I do hope you get a replacement soon, I would hate to be without ours. Although I think I’d probably just go back to buying at our local bakery - our food processor isn’t big enough for kneading dough, and I think doing that in the old one is what wore the motor out.
I knew that making bread-dough was something I might want to do sometimes, and of course I’m generally cooking for six-soon-to-be-seven people anyway, so when we bought the food processor recently, I looked for one that had a bigger-than-usual bowl and a stronger-than-usual motor. It’s this one and I’m very pleased with it. It’s small enough to sit on the counter all the time, but big enough to handle everything I want it to do - and it has all the attachments I need, but has been well-designed so that it’s easy to use - no fitting sixteen bits together to use a particular attachment
Not quite such good value as your recent acquisition 
- but I’m really happy with it 
(TBH if they offer me a refund when I take back the breadmaker, I’ll take it - I think I’m likely to use the fp instead more often in future anyway.)