really old style living?

mardatha

I sat here for a couple of minutes madly wondering why you'd want to peel a jamjar...

RAS

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mardatha wrote: »

I sat here for a couple of minutes madly wondering why you'd want to peel a jamjar...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Dont you just love our language?

ceridwen

I'm on a shout-out here for Lakeland - COO-EEEEEEEE.....alll these potential customers here for a canner and you arent darn well stocking one yet....get yer business brains in gear Lakeland.

Oh...it just goes SO against the grain any time I see good business opportunities being missed ....coming, as I do, from a family where businesspeople predominate ....

HowlinWolf

ceridwen wrote: »

I'm on a shout-out here for Lakeland - COO-EEEEEEEE.....alll these potential customers here for a canner and you arent darn well stocking one yet....get yer business brains in gear Lakeland.

Oh...it just goes SO against the grain any time I see good business opportunities being missed ....coming, as I do, from a family where businesspeople predominate ....

Ceridwen, you could write/email them and suggest it. They do seem to make or source products if enough people want them

ceridwen

HowlinWolf wrote: »

Ceridwen, you could write/email them and suggest it. They do seem to make or source products if enough people want them

I HAVE done my little bit on this one already:D.

Someone put up a link sometime recently to a webpage to Lakeland asking for the products we want - and I duly did do my little submission on this...

amber03

I know i'm changing the subject cos everybody seems to be on about canners but i was wondering if anybody knows the name of the racks that used to be suspended from the kitchen ceiling and you would hang your washing from them to dry when it was wet, I know they had a pulley that you could lower and raise the washing. I would love one of these but everybody can remember them but not what they were called.

Many thanks.

maryb

amber03 wrote: »

I know i'm changing the subject cos everybody seems to be on about canners but i was wondering if anybody knows the name of the racks that used to be suspended from the kitchen ceiling and you would hang your washing from them to dry when it was wet, I know they had a pulley that you could lower and raise the washing. I would love one of these but everybody can remember them but not what they were called.

Many thanks.

I think one name for them is Sheila Maid

seasalt_2

Sheilama1d is one make (quite expensive) and have heard them called "maidens" (I think) as well. I have got two, one in the kitchen over the rayburn and another (to my mother's horror) in our living room. Bought them both in Arg0s about twelve years ago for about a quarter the price of a sheilama1d. By the time we bought the second it said it wasn't for laundry - not sure what it WAS for - pots and pans or drying herbs maybe? - but I use them both for drying/airing laundry all the time - we have replaced the pulley rope a couple of times.

ETA Sorry Maryb - posts crossed

ChocClare

We have a Sheila Maid and a generic one. My husband (foreign) has never been able to get to grips with stupid names in English - we had a Lazy Susan for a wedding present and also this Sheila Maid - so after a few abortive attempts at remembering which was which, he gave up.

From that day to this, the dryer in our house is referred to by everyone as the Lazy B-i-t-c-h.

Well, he did try...

They have one here.

ginnyknit

There was a sheila maid in this house when we moved in many many years ago and I cannot live without it. When the Landlord sent the builders in last year they continually asked if I wanted it removing, I think OH took them to one side in the end and requested they not mention it again as I was driving him mad, ranting about their stupidity :mad:

I hear they still sell them in Argos