is what you need when your kettle packs up 😉
We seem to be suffering from electrical gremlins just now – the kettle demised yesterday, and one of the phone handsets is stubbornly refusing to charge. Lack of a kettle in this house is a traumatic event – we both drink copious quantities of hot drinks. Tim isn’t too badly off, as he has a Gaggia, and given that his Christmas present from me was a coffee mill and a supply of roasted coffee beans, I think he’s fairly happy. Given my current requirements for lemsips though, I could do without having to mess around with the camping kettle (that seems to have lost its whistle, don’t know how that happened 🙁 )
It’s not quite boiled. I’m waiting for it to boil, so that I can have my lemsip, and then go shopping. I want to go shopping for once, I keep doing Tim lists and sending him out, but I want to go and shop and pay lots of miscellaneous cheques into accounts (Christmas has been good to us that way 😉 ). Should I buy a new kettle? I don’t think we’ve had this one very long – I think it may even have been a Christmas present a couple of years ago. Pretty pathetic for it to give up so quickly (and no, it isn’t the fuse, we’ve checked that).
Ah, that’s better. I have my lemsip now. It’s too hot to drink of course, but that’s only to be expected. Now I need to gather cheques together, and try to work out where the paying in slips go. How does that work? Each time I do this, I bring a supply of envelopes and paying in slips back, and each time I need to use them, can I find them?
Hohum. That underlines the problem throughout this house, too much stuff, in disorganised piles. Will sort it out. Later.
And that’s the second part of the problem, procrastination. And this machine is a large part of it. I have a tendency to switch it on, and then hide from the world behind it, while pretending that what I’m doing is having a (n electrical) social life. Let’s face it though, I’m not really, as with the honourable exception of Gill 😉 most of you are actually off living life (which in some cases means sleeping!) while I’m reading and she’s blogging.
So there will be less machine switching on, which none of you will notice as I can still blog just as often without sitting here for 80% of my non working waiting time. At least until we’ve excavated the house and moved.
I’m still working on my 101 in 1001 list. Which is slightly worrying, as I’m probably several weeks into the allotted time, and I haven’t worked out what I’m aiming to do in it. Will aim to get that finished and posted up visibly today. Part of the problem there is that I’m prone to make huge sweeping goals for myself which are completely non measurable or achievable, and then feel bad when I don’t get there. 101 is supposed to be achievable and measurable, so pruning my aims and ambitions down is a little painful, but I’m sure worthwhile in the long run.
Right, I think I’ve waffled long enough for my lemsip to have cooled down, so I’m off to get dressed and shop. See you all later no doubt. 😀
We’ve got through a ridiculous number of kettles in the last couple of years, think we over use them and they decide that they can’t take the strain! Also have had to resort to our camping kettle, which also has lost it’s whistle lol.
Same situation re 101 in 1001 – started making a list about a month ago and I’ve got to about 75 I think, and was just thinking the other day that I really ought to pull my finger out, as otherwise I’d still be making the list when the 1001 days are up!
House and procrastination the same here too! Actually, I could just copy much of this blog post of yours and post it as my own! Happy shopping 🙂
I want one of these Just love the idea of watching the water boil.
We’ve got this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brita-Acclario-Filter-Cordless-Graphite/dp/B00008BQZO
novelty of watching the water boil still hasn’t worn off for me 😆
Mind you I am not sure I can fit watching water boil in with my heavy schedule of watching hard drives defrag, paint drying, etc etc.
We’ve been using a gas kettle since someone kindly broke the handle off my kenwood, and Meg’s kettle lasted for only a few days in this house! I actually like hearing it whistle, although now someone’s burnt the wooden bit after it fell off next to gas ring. Hoe the cold is feeling better- my hot lemon is, for tonight, G&T with bit of lemon in it!
I might just copy and paste into my own blog too, Jax. We’ve just come back from a couple of days away and it’s a bit scary how good I feel switching the computer back on and getting onto bloglines. I too must do less sitting here and more sorting out of piles!
I hope you appreciate the effort we went to cluttering up our pristine show-home of a house so that you could feel at home when you visited. All those extra things were bought after careful consideration, and those piles were hand-crafted by experts. 😉 If only that were true… We’ve celebrated the end of 2006 by re-arranging furniture downstairs, so piles will have to find somewhere else to skulk.
Hope you bought a kettle and some Lemsip in tablet form – far more palatable.
Happy New Year to you all 🙂
I think you and I must be very similar in the way we use our computers! I come downstairs in the morning and put it on while I eat my breakfast, under the pretence that I’m checking for important NCT emails that I might need to deal with. Needless to say, there is usually only one at the very most, so of course I need to spend the rest of my breakfast time (and other points during the day!) reading blogs etc., and of course, once my breakfast is finished, I need to ‘just read this last post or two’ before I get on with other jobs. My poor neglected children!
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Capsules actually Alison, but yes 🙂 Although I did buy lemon (squash) and (squeezy) honey too so that I could make soothing drinks with the new kettle 🙂
Clare, as I’m sitting here with my first cup of tea, I’d say you’ve pretty much described the way it goes 😳 Off to start the day’s jobs now!
Clare, Jax – you’re both going wrong there, you need to put the computer on well before breakfast 😉
This one rarely goes off, so always handy 🙂
A slice of ginger, an few slices of lemon, a little dab of whiskey or brandy, and a dispersible Asprin is what you need 🙂