Comments on: I feel like the White Rabbit

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:46:22 +0000

Erm Paprika pie , you could make one and send it to the LAs hehe

By: Merry

Merry — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:17:33 +0000

“Our dishwasher usually goes on once a day, and whenever we have visitors, I am always surprised that it needs to go on more often – who could have imagined that twice the people make twice the washing up???”

Funnily enough i was just saying this at the weekend….

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:47:29 +0000

I will, if I get time (hah!) write to them pointing out that it’s a known defect, and that I would expect it to last longer and the law says blah blah blah. The person on the phone didn’t have any comprehension of the difference between warranty and legal rights (trotted out the myth about “legally required one-year warranty” etc).

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:45:31 +0000

nursing, dashing, crashing – what a great description! I love it!

By: tbird

tbird — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:03:16 +0000

surely the slow cooker is unfit for purpose if it doesn’t do what it says? Bah to crppy after sales care!

My slow cooker is neither slow nor big enough to cook for more than 3 (assuming you cook spuds seperately, we can’t fit spuds in once the meat and veggies are in….) adn it cooks too hot for me to leave it unsupervised like I used to with the old one. But then it was cheap and you do get waht you pay for!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:38:03 +0000

Ah I remember the nursing, dashing, crashing thing. It was a long time ago now as youngest just turned 12.

By: Alison

Alison — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:28:47 +0000

There’re some things that don’t get used much which do – e.g. my wine glasses always need a rinse when I use them! – but most of it’s up and down enough that it doesn’t seem to get settled on. Some of the open shelves are within a big sideboard-y thing, so they’re covered enough to stay clean too. I did wonder about it before, but it’s turned out ok. Goodness knows where all that gunk is going now!

Our dishwasher usually goes on once a day, and whenever we have visitors, I am always surprised that it needs to go on more often – who could have imagined that twice the people make twice the washing up???

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:18:30 +0000

The schnauzer we’re looking after this weekend lives about five minutes from Makro, so I’ll go and look at the slow-cooker again then; if it’s the right model, it’s a very good price (it’s about 35-40 everywhere else, so 20+vat is excellent). It’s definitely a 6.5 litre one anyway.

I used to do your five-minute thing too, but now I sit nursing Louie and planning my next hands-free moves – and then, as soon as he’s willing to be handed over to someone else, I whirl about grabbing and running and getting as much of my plans executed as possible. Or I collapse in an exhausted heap

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:15:20 +0000

at your slow cooker shrinking – I think my oven has too! And my dishwasher! We have some glass-fronted doors in the kitchen, but I don’t think I’d like open shelves – doesn’t stuff get covered in that horrible greasy dust that always seems to accumulate on the tops of the kitchen cupboards?

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:17:20 +0000

Seems like the Morphy Richards one is the way to go then as both myself and Alison have one. Yep we’re the same as you used to be, can only open one appliance door at a time. It’s a lot like a slapstick black and white movie, especially when you add in the ‘doinks! on the head.

I have two kitchen timers, one upstairs and one down. I use them for all sorts of things….No not that! Although I do wonder what people would think when I’ve left my timer in the bedroom next to the bed! It’s so I get reminded to check on something downstairs, like the laundry or something in the oven or whatever.

I also use it to motivate myself to do things like paperwork. I set it for just 5 mins, I think, ‘well I can do at least 5 mins’ and more often than not I do a lot more.

We can’t have open shelves here unfortunately. We are extremely close to a major railway with loads of lines and also between two main arteries into the city. Our dust is horrendous. It’s black and oily. Sometimes if the car traffic is really bad it takes on a bluey grey tinge. It’s nasty dust which you can’t beat.