As I really want to make a curry today*, I took the duff food processor back, got a refund, then went to another shop and bought a different (and slightly more expensive) food processor which actually works :)

Nothing gets between me and curry!

*Which is currently being prepared and will be ready this evening.

Replaced the washing machine's faulty door interlock with a £4.75 eBay replacement (exactly the same type as was already extant), meaning that the machine begins its cycle the first time the door is closed, not after the sixth or seventh try or after repeated blows to the door catch area, the latter which in the last few days have become less ( Read more... )

A treat from the 1980s in the form of a ghettoblaster with a built-in synthesiser:


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The new iron works, and works well... :)

£14.95 bought this at the Swindon branch of Tesco:


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