A few years ago I took a punt on a small heat pad, and oh, god, it's gorgeous. You can lie on it or drap it like a blanket, wrap it around your shoulders or aching ankle. I find the sensation of using it is a bit getting into a hot bath - wrap around heat. Mine is washable (!), thin and super efficient. So much easier than a hot water bottle and is instant-on, instant off - no heating up time. I had no idea it would be so useful and practical. Rolls to size of a small hand towel and has a timer.
I went rummaging through my drawers (ooh, er, missus!) I have a spiralizer which is frequently used to make "courgetti spaghetti" when in season. I also have an apple corer and ahem, an electric egg boiler thingamajiggy. In my defence, they are all used. If I could bend my knackered hips low enough to unearth the "treasures" that lie within my low cupboards or conversely those I cannot reach who knows what else I might uncover?
I dare say if Lakeland (Plastics) was available in Italy (maybe it is ...) I might be further tempted gadget-wise.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Do you know it's many years since I had Bailey's, now there's an idea? I'll buy a bottle when I next go shopping. Well, it is nearly Christmas. Could be classed as a gadget - loosely speaking.
Do you know it's many years since I had Bailey's, now there's an idea? I'll buy a bottle when I next go shopping. Well, it is nearly Christmas. Could be classed as a gadget - loosely speaking.
Try it poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Mmmmm.
Lots of gadgets here from kitchen to sewing to garden. Little ones like unpickers and small, sharp, pointy scissors, a rotary cutter for patchwork, all sorts of templates, a Sissix Big Shot for cutting shapes and then bigger stuff like 2 sewing machines and an overlocker.
For cooking - 2 cookers, blender sticks, mixers, lid removers, coffee grinder used only for spices, food processor, pasta machine but also little ones like a thingy that cores an apple and cuts it into segments in one swoop and is used almost every day, a citrus zester and a teeny grater I use for garlic and ginger and a mezzeluna for chopping herbs and nuts.
For the house, it's a robot. OH bought a bloody Dyson which I loathe so I made him buy a robot when we moved here - hotter so doors open much more and cats, dogs and hoomans in and out all day. It can be set to go off as often as I need and just chunters round sweeping up bits in between OH's vaccing sessions. Invaluable.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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I dare say if Lakeland (Plastics) was available in Italy (maybe it is ...) I might be further tempted gadget-wise.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
For cooking - 2 cookers, blender sticks, mixers, lid removers, coffee grinder used only for spices, food processor, pasta machine but also little ones like a thingy that cores an apple and cuts it into segments in one swoop and is used almost every day, a citrus zester and a teeny grater I use for garlic and ginger and a mezzeluna for chopping herbs and nuts.
For the house, it's a robot. OH bought a bloody Dyson which I loathe so I made him buy a robot when we moved here - hotter so doors open much more and cats, dogs and hoomans in and out all day. It can be set to go off as often as I need and just chunters round sweeping up bits in between OH's vaccing sessions. Invaluable.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw