Saturday, January 08, 2005

Full House

Here's a list of my three favorite household items:

Toast - What a beautiful thing, it's just so forgiving! There is no other cookable item like it. If you burn pizza, throw it away, if you burn sausages, throw them away, but toast? A little scrape and there's a nice new shiny layer of perfectly prepared toast just underneath! It tastes as good as if you'd never burnt it at all. That's the kind of food that suits a distracted and forgetful John down to the ground.

RGXTPF - The new Right Guard Xtreme Total Protection deodorant, Force flavour. It's soooo good, it just smells really really really nice, seriously, I keep sniffing myself all day. Not since the heady days of Lynx Africa (before they 'new and improved' it) have I smelt so good. And to make it even better, it has a side squirty lever as well, so there's no more 90° angle calculation required!

Rick Stein's Three Fruit Marmalade - I quite often get a craving for marmalade (maybe I'm pregnant?) and three days ago I found this jar in the pantry. I'm not really into the Steinster, his programs send me to sleep, and I've spent so much time in Cornwall I'm radioactive. But what a branch out? To go from fish sticks to preserves is quite a leap, and this is really really good stuff. I'm totally hooked on it. I've no idea what I'll do when we run out of it. I'm thinking about getting a hat like Paddington's so I can tape Marmalade sandwiches inside.