in being supremely shocked and annoyed that DP went to Rome and all I got was a

[MerryPIFFLEmas]

fucking

toaster

yes our old one blew up...
but still

And not just any toaster

£95

For toast

He has flown back out now

I hope he stays there

Some Toffifee, surely, Piffle? That's all they ever sell in airports, I think.

Bet you get a kettle.

You are so getting the kettle...

He just rung me to ask what his mother wanted for christmas...

I said oh something really special, that show show much you love and respect her. Soemthing fab, seeing as you're in Rome.
He said
Oh like what then?
I said
A toaster..

he hung up on me

lol

you have a dualit toaster?

oooooh I wish I had a dualit toaster.

[toaster envy]

look DH went to Barcelona for a week and I got a golden buddha in a snowglobe

and I was grateful

gawd some people Piff .. I think that's a lovely present .. but then I think Lakeland is mummy porn

Mr Piff .. come and live with me .. I'd appreciate you

consider if he had bought you sunglasses

AIBU DH is in Rome and he's brought me sunglasses .. it's farkin' december

(there was a good reason behind the Buddha snowglobe .. but it's personal )

Well, All I got for Christmas last year from my dh was a handheld vacuum cleaner from Asda, for catching crumbs....

I'd say your £95 toaster from Rome beats that both in Price, Location of Origin and Thougtfulnes.

I bet it is all shiny and pretty, too...

I love my Dualit too.

Magrat (or is that Twig?)
I wanted sunglasses, nice Prada ones
I know tis winter but am blinded driving down the A15 on a morning as sun sets on above my eyeline. The near misses

Now don't get me wrong about the Dualit... Had we been in a toaster shop, looking for a toaster, I would have shoulder charged many to get to it, it is beautiful and despite it's method of donation, I do love it suitably as one should a pretty appliance.

this is a man who used to bring me back stunning Godiv chocolates from Brussels every week when he worked there 7 years ago.

Where is the love huh?

tell the truth now piff .. you've stroked it haven't you? .. you have stroked the toaster

twig

I stroked it with an e cloth, to preserive its gleam... that's all

This thread is making me think I should be miffed that DP gave me a breadmaker for a Significant Birthday.

It's white plastic, to boot - not lurvely italian design chrome.

I wish DP would agree to buy a few upmarket household goods instead of us living like students.

Nothing against student-living - it's just that the point of being a student is that you hope to move on from cast-offs that your MIL was given as wedding present.

Have totally harrumphed myself up now, and am miffed with Mr Piffle as the cause!

Blu makes a pale attempt at being unreasonable

she shoots

she misses

Do yuo folk expect a present every timer your dh goes away then?

I do and it must be shiny

but as I am satisfied with a snowglobe I am not high-maintenance

Gawd,more crap to clutter the home.

Friends, MNetters, countrymen lend me your ears;
I come to Toast the bread, not to burn it.
The evil of utensils lives after them;
The good is oft slung out until the tip;
So let it be with Toasters. The noble Piffle
Hath told you The Toaster was unwanted:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath The Toaster answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Piffle and the rest -
For Piffle is an honourable cook;
So are they all, all honourable cooks -
Come I to speak in Toasters funeral Pyre.
It was a shiny thing a lovely to see
But Piffle says it was unwanted;
And Piffle is an honourable cook.
It hath toasted many a muffin in this house
Whose Crusty surfaces did soak with butter fair:
Was this for Piffle, unwanted?
When that the slices burned, Toaster hath wept:
Abandoned goods should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Piffle says it was Unwanted;
And Piffle is an honourable cook.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice depressed the toasting switch,
And it did thrice eject: was this unwanted?
Yet Piffle says it was unwanted;
And, sure, she is an honourable cook.
I speak not to disprove what Piffle spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did enjoy the waffle, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for Toast?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My bagel lives un browne?d, lies bereft,
And I must pause till Toaster return to me.

[jaw dropped emoticon] For the love of Toast, MB!

Bravo, MB!

Wow MB-
Do I need to pay homage to my toaster?