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Sorry for the pause there :)
Relatively unexciting couple of days. I've cooked dinner (2 nights running, wow ;) ) and done laundry. I really miss having a dryer--the amount of laundry I can do is severely limited by available drying space. Plus everything comes out stiff from being dried on a rack.
Cooking is an interesting adventure, owing to the lack of equipment and supplies in the kitchen, as well as my relative unfamiliarity with British stores and products. It's the same with cleaning and household stuff. Actually, it's worse. With food, I know I can get obscure items, I just don't know where. With cleaning products, I'm pretty sure that what's stocked in a big Sainsbury's is representative of what's available. I don't thinik there's some odd specialist retailer selling full-size Bounty and SOS pads. (All I can find is Brillo and it sucks. It falls apart too fast. I'm going to have to have my mother send me Chore-Boys which are nearly indestructible. Not quite as good as steel wool soap pads for getting things shiny, but the best thing ever for removing burnt-on goo from your saucepans. Not that I've done that yet, but it has happened.) There seems to be less selection in the UK for this, but perhaps Americans are just obsessed with things like storage bags and disposable pseudo-Tupperware.
I'll give the UK (or Europe in general) points for those Persil gel-capsule things though. No more spilt detergent or having half a cup left at the bottom of the container!
It's also amusing seeing familiar products sold under slightly different names: Windex is Windolene and Reynolds Wrap is BacoFoil. (The boxes are identical, the nonstick foil is called Release for both... but different brand names.)
Tonight Neil's at bridge, so I'm off dinner duty (unless I want to eat, obviously). Naturally I can't be bothered yet and I'll probably end up eating at 11pm or something.
Relatively unexciting couple of days. I've cooked dinner (2 nights running, wow ;) ) and done laundry. I really miss having a dryer--the amount of laundry I can do is severely limited by available drying space. Plus everything comes out stiff from being dried on a rack.
Cooking is an interesting adventure, owing to the lack of equipment and supplies in the kitchen, as well as my relative unfamiliarity with British stores and products. It's the same with cleaning and household stuff. Actually, it's worse. With food, I know I can get obscure items, I just don't know where. With cleaning products, I'm pretty sure that what's stocked in a big Sainsbury's is representative of what's available. I don't thinik there's some odd specialist retailer selling full-size Bounty and SOS pads. (All I can find is Brillo and it sucks. It falls apart too fast. I'm going to have to have my mother send me Chore-Boys which are nearly indestructible. Not quite as good as steel wool soap pads for getting things shiny, but the best thing ever for removing burnt-on goo from your saucepans. Not that I've done that yet, but it has happened.) There seems to be less selection in the UK for this, but perhaps Americans are just obsessed with things like storage bags and disposable pseudo-Tupperware.
I'll give the UK (or Europe in general) points for those Persil gel-capsule things though. No more spilt detergent or having half a cup left at the bottom of the container!
It's also amusing seeing familiar products sold under slightly different names: Windex is Windolene and Reynolds Wrap is BacoFoil. (The boxes are identical, the nonstick foil is called Release for both... but different brand names.)
Tonight Neil's at bridge, so I'm off dinner duty (unless I want to eat, obviously). Naturally I can't be bothered yet and I'll probably end up eating at 11pm or something.
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