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Wednesday, 27/Sep/2006 : 11:38AM
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ehold my dad, standing proudly with the new Sanderson family kettle. We have a chequered history with such appliances. While my own Dualit has been going strong for a couple of years now, my sister has given up on electric kettles entirely and uses a stove-top model, and my parents seem to once again be going through a ‘kettle of the month’ phase. This is, apparently, their second for September.
Dad enthusiastically relates that:
“It has a lid which pops up slowly so we don’t get splashed, a pretty blue light to show how full it is, it boils very quickly (3.1 kw. for 1.5 litres) and looks very pretty.”
He then ruins the moment by adding:
“We bought it yesterday so I thought I would send you a photo whilst it is still working.”
Posted by jonathan at September 27, 2006 11:38 AM
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Aw, your dad looks like you. Glad to see he's well and enthusing about kettles.
Posted by: Rosie at September 27, 2006 5:23 PM
This posting is pure mental.
Posted by: Nige at September 29, 2006 8:28 AM
How so? Other bloggers post about their cats -- I post about my parents' kettles. Is that so wrong?
Posted by: Jonathan Sanderson at September 29, 2006 11:44 AM
Yeah, show some humanity Nige.
Posted by: Richard Grant at October 1, 2006 1:39 AM