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Re: Local news
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:37 am
by Moggy
SEP wrote:Green Gecko wrote:This is news apparently.
Stanwick man uses 72-year-old toaster every day A man who uses his 72-year-old toaster every day said he was embracing the spirit of the wartime generation.
Jimmy James, from Stanwick, in Northamptonshire, said the toaster was manufactured in December 1949 and given to his parents as a wedding present.
The 69-year-old said it only needed repairing once every six or seven years.
Mr James said: "I was brought up by the wartime generation and encouraged to repair things and not throw them away."
He inherited the Morphy Richards pop-up toaster after his father's death in 1993.
The machine generally needs repairing "once every six or seven years", he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-60054105I'm pretty sure everyone has some sort of ancient appliance in their home, even if it'd just a gas metre, sink or lamp.
Shame they never mentioned how often it needs repairing.
With a toaster that old, I'd guess he'd need to repair it once every six or seven years.
Re: Local news
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:58 am
by Dowbocop
Green Gecko wrote:This is news apparently.
Stanwick man uses 72-year-old toaster every day A man who uses his 72-year-old toaster every day said he was embracing the spirit of the wartime generation.
Jimmy James, from Stanwick, in Northamptonshire, said the toaster was manufactured in December 1949 and given to his parents as a wedding present.
The 69-year-old said it only needed repairing once every six or seven years.
Mr James said: "I was brought up by the wartime generation and encouraged to repair things and not throw them away."
He inherited the Morphy Richards pop-up toaster after his father's death in 1993.
The machine generally needs repairing "once every six or seven years", he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-60054105I'm pretty sure everyone has some sort of ancient appliance in their home, even if it'd just a gas metre, sink or lamp.
I've got a towel that is forty-seven years old this year (parents' wedding present). It's a bit on the scratchy side (it's no different to the unused ones my dad had under his bed for years and got out when we moved out so maybe that's how they made towels in the seventies...) but it doesn't smell and it still dries so it's all good!
Re: Local news
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 11:03 pm
by Green Gecko
I have a really old towel too. It's the only one big enough and some kind of English made Egyptian Cotton or something. It's probably combed as it's still soft.
I was really pissed when a housemate made off with the matching hand towel. It's the pair I took to uni and that was basically all I needed. That was in 2008.
Re: Local news
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:33 pm
by Moggy
twitter.com/angrypiln/status/1493320121393233923
strawberry float me
Re: Local news
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:31 pm
by Tomous
I lived in Erdington for 18 months, it's a bit of a gooseberry fool hole to say the least
Re: Local news
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:42 pm
by Moggy
twitter.com/angrypiln/status/1496175792061046792
Jenuall has gone too far.