The following video reminded me of the old fashioned ironmongers, with practically everything for sale. Yesterday I went to the one in the market to find an appropriate old fashioned tin opener. The one with a little wheel that turns round the rim of the tin and cuts. He at first showed those modern clunky ones, that after a certain time refuses to work. But no I stuck to my original quest and he found one. Though he laughingly also pulled out that dangerous jagged curved one that always lay at the bottom of the cutlery drawer. Ironmongers are a world in themselves.
This surreal video is matched up with a Guardian article on 'binmen' You know that time you just chucked everything into your metal bin, (except coal ashes) without plastic black bags of course, and the binmen clanked around with them, not forgetting the Christmas tip.
Today, in this house, the most rubbish we have comes in the form of cardboard on everything sent off for and arriving in a parcel. Vegetable peelings go in a separate small brown bin, but apparently, Paul must have told me this, you could have a communal vegetable bin, which then fed pigs somewhere.
Last night we had raclette for tea, as there was only two of us we used my raclette tin bowls with candles. It was surprising how those little candles heated the cheese in next to no time. Would we be able to have a larger tin with a bigger candle to boil the potatoes?...
Where my house in the Alps they seem to have invented every possible way to melt cheese - raclette is still the best though!
ReplyDeleteRaclette and fondue are delicious, easy way for making a meal. There is also a meat one as well, but you could never get the beef cut so finely thin as they do in Switzerland's butchers. Our relatives live down near Lake Leman, just by Vevey, my grandchildren all want to live there of course.
DeleteA mini fondu!
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