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December 11, 2005
Times are a changing...
One year my mum fell in love with a dinner service from M&S, so she asked for all the separate pieces from various relatives for Christmas; the plates from my dad, the gravy boat from a great aunt, that sort of thing.
I remember being quite disgruntled by the whole situation, asking for a dinner service for Christmas, how utterly dull and boring to ask for something from which the whole family would benefit. Shouldn’t I be asking for one large plate, one side plate etc, after all I was going to eat from them. But of course I wanted the latest Wham! album too much to even consider suggesting that this should be the case. I did however vow from that day on that when I was grown up my Christmas list was going to consist of nice things, if my family wanted to eat from pretty plates then they could ask for them themselves.
The thing is I’ve wanted a food processor for years. It would be quite handy for making nice smooth soups and for blending the hummous so I don’t have to stand there for hours bending a fork, if it also had a juicer bit then, you never know my family might eat more fruit and thus extend our life expectancy, or something. Each Christmas however I remember my vow and demand lots of books instead and then come January start dreaming about how much easier (and longer) life would be if I had a food processor.
Now I bring you forward and transcribe a conversation between my husband and myself last night,
MR. PE; ‘Have you got my Christmas present yet?’
ME; ‘Come on, what do you take me for? It’s only December 10th.’
MR. PE; ‘Have you decided what you are going to get me?’
ME; ‘Like I said, it’s only December 10th.’
MR PE; ‘I quite fancy one of those food processors, you know, so we can make smooth soups and hummous and stuff.’
BINGO! Now where did I put the Argos catalogue?!
Posted by purple elephant at December 11, 2005 09:34 AM