As Frilly stress Lizzy out, did the SWs forget her heart defect? Will there be long term llama drama karma in The Archers?

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All this kettle chat makes me so happy. I think a trip to Asda is on the cards. I've rather fallen out with my Britta filter one.

Jonneh is a good lad.

I'm very much torn. About kettles, that is. My Sunbeam one is perfectly OK but very worn with horrid black marks near the seals. On the other hand, I'm trying to be thrifty.....

I have to own up to only having cotton goods for bedding, or manchester as they call it here; making quinoa salad and my own kimchi, which is pushing me into the dangerous twattery zone.

I'll get me coat.:o

I have two variable heat settings on my kettle - boiling hot and cold.

My kettle does boiling water but I can make tea at (more or less) whatever temperature I wish below that ... just put a bit of cold in the pot/cup first.

I just let the boiling water cool down a little. (Actually, this is what my various coffee suppliers used to advise years ago. Bet they’ve all got fancy kettles now, though ...)

In my defence I do need a new kettle.

Pinched this from a thread on Mustardland

Can anyone explain why CallmeRuss was watching a film about "when you've seen one Orange dotted tusk fish, you've seen them all"?

What was that about?

Don't know what Russ meant, but I saw one at the Great Barrier Reef at Easter. I thought it was pretty special.

IME most omnivores don’t like vegan anything especially desserts.

I have had some very excellent vegan desserts, and I am definitely an omnivore.

I have to own up to only having cotton goods for bedding

So do I, apart from the silk bedding. My mother didn't even attempt to send me to uni with anything other than 100% cotton sheets.

Admittedly they were from the back of the airing cupboard rather than new. One lot had a Utility mark on, so about 30 years older than me. I would expect a stately home to have plenty of spare bedding in all sorts of bed sizes, without having to buy new.

I could not cohabit with someone who considered sleeping in anything less than 100% natural fibres.

I will not be getting my coat over this, either. Even though I also like quinoa.

My son left for uni with bits from the cupboard but soon bought his own cheap and cheerful set. I think the stuff from home got mixed up with some red wine .

I suppose the point being made in the archers is that Russ has the tastes of a 40 year old without the judgement.

Is Mustard land still going?

I could not cohabit with someone who considered sleeping in anything less than 100% natural fibres.

Oh, I don’t know ... I like an element of unknowable otherness in cohabitees. Not caring about sheets would probably suggest to me that they’re thinking Big Important Thoughts about interesting stuff. Assuming they’re otherwise perfect, of course.

Will have to listen again to the fish film reference - but I’m hoping it’s an indication of Didsbury life to come. Lily racing around between lectures and waitressing, getting home late to unopened bills, an overflowing kitchen sink and Russ, resplendent in greying underwear, flaked out in front of his laptop, complaining that she hasn’t picked up his hand-reared camel yoghurt from the other end of town.

But it’ll never happen.

I'm an omnivore. I sometimes eat food which if I think about it could be described as vegan but that isn't my guiding principle in choosing to make/eat it, it just happens to be what I fancied on that occasion. Beans on toast, most bread, avocado on toast, many soups, ratatouille, roast vegetables with chick peas, hummus, falafel, a very nice tomato and coconut 'cassoulet' I made recently.

I don't often make desserts or puddings but very few of them would be vegan because they usually involve eggs and/or a dairy product, occasionally gelatine. So yes, as an omnivore, I wouldn't seek out a vegan place for cake or dessert, as a lot of my favourites would be off the menu. What are vegan scones like?

"IME most omnivores don’t like vegan anything"

What do you think vegans eat?

"IME most omnivores don’t like vegan anything"
What do you think vegans eat?

Oh its totally weird. Beans on toast, jacket potatoes with fillings, peanut butter and/or marmite sandwiches, fruit salad, apple pie and since this is MN better give hummus a mention.

Chestnut casserole season on the horizon - maybe that counts as weird?

Admittedly they were from the back of the airing cupboard rather than new.

That's the thing though isn't it? They are just cotton sheets, it was a weird question to ask and the whole "are they Egyptian cotton" was in line with the arty-farty cocklodger image being created for Russ.

Regarding the fish - wasn't he watching a documentary about them when Elizabeth came into the room to ask what was the smell?

Mustardland is still going.

I've never heard of orange dotted tusk fish (which sound wonderful btw) Must be because Russ is so sophisticated he can be blasé about them.(whereas it was just another wanky comment)

LL probably has stacks of lovely soft old cotton sheets but not duvet covers (I'm talking about the house, not the hotel stock) and all white, not 'jewel colours'.

Criteria for student bedding - main one is easy to launder including not taking forever to tumble dry, and absolutely not needing ironing.

When DS went off to Uni last year he took his bedding from home and most of his pots & pans too. I had to buy him a few bits & pieces like a tin opener, and a potato peeler & masher which came home at the end of term unused.

But he doesn't care about stuff like that, maybe a daughter would be different (if that's not sexist...)

This thread is moving fast for a weekend, I wonder if anyone has any stats on that?

That'd be the sensible way but the Sainsbury's here stocks up on all sorts of cheap household goods at this time of year, most of which seem to get binned in 9m time.

Stats! Paging @daddaddad

Russ specified he wanted new bedding.

Honestly, I still don't get how Lizzie allowed him on that trip. Plenty easy enough to say in knowing adult to adult voice, "Actually Russ I'd rather just go with Lily. She'll be leaving home soon so it would mean a lot to have some girl time together, you understand."
Said politely as in telling you WILL understand, no raised inflection to imply a question 'do you mind.' Russ can only take the piss whilst Lizzie acquiesces.

Pre uni shopping is a rite of passage, but I guess this is more shacking up with your abuser/groom, I don't know the etiquette for that.

It was the Egyptian specification that struck me - I was imagining him demanding as high thread count and price to match, safe in the knowledge that he wouldn’t be footing the bill. I think all the obsessing about kitchen equipment and household goods in general is very middle aged - I love all that stuff now (googling kettles with the rest of you), but couldn’t have given a toss when I was a student. For me it just highlights that while Russ purports to be devil-may-care and down-with-the-kids - leaving his wife and chucking in his job, in fact he is nothing of the sort - happy to live on beans, but only if they are served with artisan bread that doesn’t aggravate his yeast allergy and cooked Le Creuset.