Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

LydiaJ

I have a new fridge-freezer arriving this afternoon (all being well). My old one is 70cm. The kitchen here had a very small fitted fridge with cupboards above and below but no freezer. I have had the whole unit removed so I can have a full height free-standing one there, but the gap is only about 63cm. So a 60cm f/f is supposed to be arriving some time between 1:00 and 4:30 this afternoon - it is 2:30 already and I have not yet had my text to say when the exact ETA is, so I hope it does turn up OK. A friend will turn up later in the afternoon with a van and a mate to collect the old one. The friend, his wife and 4 kids are moving from a rented house to a tied house with his new job. The rented house has a fitted f/f, but the tied house has no f/f, although it does have a space big enough for my old 70cm one. So the timing is working out perfectly for all of us (as long as my new one does actually arrive today).

Both my old one and the new one are the "mostly fridge and smaller freezer" type, and I have a separate freezer too. It's the right size to go under the counter, but there isn't a space for it in the kitchen so at the moment it's in the conservatory. It will probably end up behind the door in the hall, under the boiler, or if I decide to enclose the boiler in a cupboard then maybe I'll put the freezer in the utility room. It can't go in the hall yet because the builder hasn't been back to patch the hole in the laminate flooring where the old floor-standing boiler was removed, and so it wouldn't have a flat surface to stand on.

I am now going to go and have a go at decluttering the conservatory. Those of you who have seen my floor plans may remember that my front door opens into the conservatory, and then you have to go round a corner and double back on yourself to get into the house. So if it's cluttered, it's horrible because it's the first thing people see when they come into the house. I am useless at dealing with my clutter.

silvercar

The cress, that was the only thing I was growing, was sprouting green tips yesterday. Today it is green tips + mould.

Luckily I'm not trying to survive on home grown.

Generali

</lurk mode>
now fridges/freezers are something I know a lot about. Get a simple one as the cooling part will last 20+ years unless you're unlucky. Fans and all that crap mean you defrost less but are just something to break down.

PS My 'mission' might almost be complete so I might he back soon. Or not of course. We'll see.

Good luck peeps. The bad news is that it looks like RBS, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole are insolvent again.

PPS I'm way out west from Sydney this w/e and it's blimmin' freezing. 3C right now and I'm staying in a 30 y/o mobile home. Brrrrr.

Toodle pip old fruits!

JonnyBravo

GDB2222 wrote: »

We keep quite a lot of our veg in the fridge too. Tomatoes and so on seem to last longer that way, sometimes even as long as their use-by date.

Keep all our veg in the fridge. Why keep any of it out of the fridge?

michaels

Good to hear someone is profiting from falling markets Are the insolvencies due to asset write-downs or the legal matters?

Seems somehow ironic that at then end of September it is 30+ here and too hot whereas you are freezing down there.

Generali wrote: »

</lurk mode>
now fridges/freezers are something I know a lot about. Get a simple one as the cooling part will last 20+ years unless you're unlucky. Fans and all that crap mean you defrost less but are just something to break down.

PS My 'mission' might almost be complete so I might he back soon. Or not of course. We'll see.

Good luck peeps. The bad news is that it looks like RBS, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole are insolvent again.

PPS I'm way out west from Sydney this w/e and it's blimmin' freezing. 3C right now and I'm staying in a 30 y/o mobile home. Brrrrr.

Toodle pip old fruits!

Even things like potatoes and onions?

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Keep all our veg in the fridge. Why keep any of it out of the fridge?

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Even things like potatoes and onions?

Potatoes, onions and whole carrots are the only things I keep out of the fridge. Plus swedes + parsnips if I had any.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Keep all our veg in the fridge. Why keep any of it out of the fridge?

so its yummy at room temperature.

I also hate cleaning out crispers.

Oh, here's a question, why do I always get icky waer at the bottom of the fridge....is my temperature setting wrong? could it be a sign of a broken seal somehow making compensation?

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

so its yummy at room temperature.

I also hate cleaning out crispers.

Oh, here's a question, why do I always get icky waer at the bottom of the fridge....is my temperature setting wrong? could it be a sign of a broken seal somehow making compensation?

Condensation? on the something?

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Condensation? on the something?

yeah, condensation, that's the word, not compensation.:o:o and, er . water not waer. I think that one was a genuine mis type though.

I had half a dozen aging bananas so just made a monster amount of banana muffin mix, to make muffins for the freezer.....so why did I only get two dozen muffins out of it....they'll probably each come out the size of a victoria sponge :rotfl::rotfl:

sss555s

Just realised. I keep all veg in the fridge and all fruit out!