Archive for May 2008
Life and Miracle Fruit
Posted on Wed, May 07, 2008 at 8:52 by Michelle
We got our tickets to Glastonbury festival . This has been a major event for the past 4 years. This year I didn’t want to go. We got the tickets just in case but it was really miserable last year, and I have canceled mine. Dave is going to go with Chris. Although should it look like it may not rain I may well be trying to get tickets last minute. Apart from last year there being pretty miserable. It does not work out at a good time for us this year. Visiting the children is 2 weeks before; normally we’d visit with them for the weekend then drive on down to Somerset on the Monday, spending a couple of days camping and get into the festival on the Wednesday. This year we have to visit with them for a weekend, come home and spend the next weekend here then drive back down to Suffolk to pick them up and then on over to Somerset. Apart from which Katie who has just finished her mocks has a proper exam when we would be away.
So I’m looking forward to a girly week just her and I and lots of Ben and Jerry’s. Yes I am very fat already and really should not even think about Ben and Jerry’s let alone eat it. I am absolved though because of 2 things.
1. I have bought Wii Fit - and yes I have done it, quite a few times actually….
2. I have bought some Magic Berries - now this little miracle fruit as it is known, is going to save me from myself.
I had great hopes for these little berries. I could see how it would mean I wouldn’t have to add sugar to anything and I would ‘get thin’, but it gets washed away with hot food, so my coffee still has to have a little sugar, and when I suggested we all chewed a bit of this so we could eat rhubarb crumble without sugar, the rest of my family looked at me in disbelief. Just because I want to put all my faith in a magic little berry does not mean they will follow me. I know this from previous run-ins with my previous occasional obsessions of ‘truly wonderful ideas that will work’. These wonderful ideas are not limited to dieting. When I hit on a good idea it overtakes me and for weeks I can think of nothing else. At the moment my magic berries are hitting the spot, but running concurrently but a little under the surface at the moment is a love and demand for all things kenwood chefy. I know I need a chef. It would look so great in my kitchen. It would do all of those mundane tasks I hate and everyone on the MSE old style board has one, loves it, and uses it daily. I am mostly old style. I cook a lot, I eat even more I know I would benefit from a kenwood chef. I got an old one from a kind freecycler and it is stood in pride of place in my kitchen, unfortunately it does not work so well. The attachments work, the liquidiser, mincer, and slow speed chopper (don’t those words make you drool in anticipation), but the actual turny thing, the bit that would make perfect cakes and bread dough, that does not work. It will not turn. Dave took it apart straight away of course, he’s an ‘engineer’ but alas he thinks the gears are broken. This leaves me in somewhat of a conundrum. I have to search ebay twice a day for the answer. Do I buy the gears and fix the old machine. Look for another old one, or horror of horrors Dave thinks I should buy a new one. He obviously has no idea on the amount of research that went into this kitchen necessity and those in the know. (The regulars on the kenwood chef thread on MSE), their collective wisdom is that old is better than new. So while I dream about A701/A901, I know that he too is caught up in his own little obsession. As a family of geeks what more perfect present for my love than an Ipod Touch. It was his birthday a few days ago, and I believe he has had that touch in his hand more than his (err other favourite thing) since then. Not only has he filled it with stuff and moved stuff around and completely frustrated himself in his attempts to get his email on it. I’m sure he is stroking it when I’m not looking. On a positive note it seems to be the best birthday present he ever got, which makes me a perfect wife for this week anyway…
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