Kettle

Do not underestimate all it's uses... actually, there aren't that many... BUT... whether it be stove-top or electic, your good ol' trusty kettle does need cleaning and maintenance. Every now and then wipe the sides to remove an almost guaranteed droplet or 14 of splashed water, coffee or milk. It's probably milk because sometimes that…

Aluminium Foil

Conversation starters > Atomic Number is 13 > First foil rolling plant opened in Sweden in 1910 > Tobler first used aluminium to wrap their triangular shaped chocolate in 1911. (Yes, the wonderful tasting Toblerone) > 99.3% of children who are not shown how to correctly (and EASILY) break off a piece of Toblerone, grow…

Crockery

My parents told me a story of a woman 'back home' who was very old - that is, she was over 80. Understand that 'back home' not only identified the little town of their origin, it also sets the date of the tale to around the late 1940s, so a woman that old was something…