28 June 2003 18:31 [link]
kettle
Our other main John Lewis purchase today was a new kettle. It's a shiny, fast-boiling one (I'm an impatient person) which you can just lift off its base. It's a nice change from our old one which takes ages to boil and has to be unplugged from its cable before you can carry it to where you need it.
There's a slight design flaw which is that if you want to refill it just after it's boiled, you have to hold your hand in the steam coming up from the interior. I think there'll be a knack to doing it.
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28 June 2003 18:14 [link]
pottery
So we gave in and bought "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". OK, I gave in; Sara's been dead-set on getting it since it came out.
She pointed out that wanting to wait until it came out in paperback because all the other ones we own are in paperback wasn't sensible. She pointed out that we both wanted to read it and that it wouldn't come out in paperback for ages. She also pointed it out on sale for £8.95 in John Lewis. We bought the book.
Now, of course, we have the problem of both wanting to read it simultaneously. We've come to the amicable agreement that I'll read it in the evenings, and Sara will read the book she's currently in the middle of; she'll read it during the daytime. We both read it on the Tube home.
She's currently claiming that weekends don't count, and is hogging the book.
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