Haha Frog, I washed two Weight Watchers pedometers in my time… the air was blue, let’s just say, at nearly £20 a pop. And they were rubbish anyway. If you went for a pee, the mere act of pulling down and pulling up your pants again added about 20 steps to your daily count.
Weescotty, do you too stand in the middle of your kitchen, oven glove on, holding something hot, spinning around aimlessly looking for somewhere the put it down? 🙂 It’s crazy, I know these houses were built in the late 1940’s/early 1950’s and some in the town earlier. My grandmother lived in one with her THIRTEEN siblings, parents… oh and a lodger! How on earth did they cope? All have tiny kitchens and I believe hers was smaller still than mine. Yet the new estate, built in the late 1970s, when families were significantly smaller, where I grew up and later lived myself for 9 years until I moved here – massive kitchens! Loads of counter space and cupboards, massive walk in pantry, and room for a table up permanently. Probably about four times the size of my now kitchen. It’s hugely impractical for a family of six. My table is in my living room, one of the sides up, and the youngest two eat there, and the rest of us have the single collapsing tables to eat while sat on the sofas. It’s not ideal, and it’s not something I’ve ever done, I was raised to sit down and eat at the table, but it’s like bloody changing rooms every time we pull the dining table out. Subsequently it only ever comes out about three times a year, if I’m entertaining more than four people and we can’t eat outside, and Christmas Day. I have no room for a dishwasher. Nor a large fridge, the most I could have in there is a cooker, washer and either a under counter fridge/freezer or a dryer. I opted for the dryer and thankfully I have outhouses which are now incorporated into the house (the old outside loo, what would have once been a coal store, and a room at the end large enough for my tall freezer, a chest freezer, and a small fridge). I don’t know how I would cope without that extra space, probably be sharing my living room with a freezer or something!
I won a pan in a competition a few months ago, it had two metal sheets that slotted in to each other to make a + shape, this went into the pan to divide it into four. It’s quite a decent size and it’s ideal for cooking different vegetables in, if you aren’t cooking so much. It’s better than washing four small pans anyway!
