Last night guess what I bought off a man in the pub?

Patchwork_Quilt

Norbert, I believe

Farway

Many years ago we had a Kenwood with ceramic bowl, K beater etc that I bought in Australia whilst in RN, always mixed bread dough with it

One day after a few years of use back in UK, the bowl just broke whilst kneading, we wrote to Kenwood who at the time were based in Havant explaining this

They sent us free a replacement, which I thought then & still think now, was very good customer service

That was decades ago, no idea if same now as Havant closed & not even sure if a UK company any longer

Congrats on a good buy

thriftlady_2

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

Norbert, I believe

I don't want to be picky, but I will anyway:D, if you keep reading till the end of the saga you will discover that Norbert turns out to be Norberta;)

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

I don't want to be picky, but I will anyway:D, if you keep reading till the end of the saga you will discover that Norbert turns out to be Norberta;)

Have you been at the Chablis early, thrifty :beer:

thriftlady_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Have you been at the Chablis early, thrifty :beer:

If only:( I've pmd you btw Penny;)

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

If only:( I've pmd you btw Penny;)

Dunno what's happened - I wrote you a long reply soon after I received it, and it appears to have not been sent I'll try again tomorrow - tea's nearly ready :beer:

tim_n

well on the basis I didn't have time to look it up on the net, I just cleaned with soapy water on the outside and didn't touch inside at all. The grease was absolutely horrendous, it looks like someone never cleaned it at all.

A bit of attention with a toothbrush and everything looks just that little bit nicer again, though I think I broke a bit of plastic on the front of the machine (it showed sign of being superglued)

Most alarmingly was the state of the flexi cord which was horrendously dangerous having bare wires etc. It's only a simple job to rewire so I'll do it myself but if someone else had got it, it could have killed them! buyer beware!