Adventures in Housesharing, Episode 3984

Oct 20, 2011 09:15

Our landlord installed a shiny new oven as our old one, lovingly nicknamed "The Incinerator", finally went to oven heaven. Huzzah!

Housemate A immediately starts roasting and grilling meats in the oven, splattering fat all over the insides, latest experiment in progress being a whole chicken.

Me: "Um, can we perhaps, maybe, clean the oven after ( Read more... )

random uk stuff, rl

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minavox October 20 2011, 09:08:24 UTC
Bruhaha!

Have you considered applying for social funds or such - as this is clearly an educational project you're running there??

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ipomoeaborealis October 20 2011, 15:45:35 UTC
Honest to god, sometimes I could swear that possession of a Y chromosome makes it impossible to see dirt...

Educational project indeed... As the Tories are very fond at the moment to replace all kinds of social services with so-called "Social Enterprises", I probably actually could apply for some money!

Felt very mumsy to start that discussion, but if I get cakes which don't smell of roast chicken out of it, I think it is a battle well worth fighting.

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minavox October 26 2011, 08:13:28 UTC
Don't even the greatest of kings hang their favourite festive shirts dried in the kitchens, directly above the roaring cooking fire? It says so on Quality TV!

And yes, it does seem to be connected with this blasted chromosome. I nearly cried of joy as Precious yesterday willingly and without being prompted repeatedly cleared away his crayons after colouring...

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