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[hathycol]

I'm desperately trying to write up the minimoon, but life is eating all of my writing time so that will go up At Some Point in the future. Becuase, obviously, you all want to hear of our adventures in wildest genteel-ist Yorkshire. Seriously. Soon. I promise!

However, for now we are back in sunny Southport and back in work. Boo. However, I wasn't in work yesterday afternoon as we recieved all of our wedding gifts. Seriously, if you want the most middle-class, consumerist experience of RAPTURE AND JOY, I can strenuously recommend getting your wedding gift list from John Lewis, opening it all like kids on Christmas through the polystyrene balls and then sitting on the square metre of carpet you have left, drinking champagne and gleefully plotting the demise of all the non-matching kitchen stuff you can now throw out. (Is anyone moving house soon? Most of the stuff that's going is off to the recycling centre in the hope some of it can be salvaged, but some is okay if people want first dibs on it before we take it to the charity shop.)

Although we knew what we were getting, we didn't know who from, but we do now, and I am overwhelmed at the generousity of our friends and families. (Particularly Richie's! We put down a v. expensive breadmaker and coffee machine on the offchance people might club together and buy them, and we were surprised when they disappeared off the list. We were VERY surprised to discover they're both from Richie's family friends who I have never met and didn't even come to the wedding! I AM GOING TO MAKE SO MUCH BREAD THOUGH.) A lot of our friends, some of whom weren't able to come to the wedding, bought us gifts, which we are so desperately grateful for I can't even describe. We're sending out individual thank yous very shortly, but this is just a massive big lovecrush at how wonderful people have been over this whole wedding thing. I LOVE YOU GUYS.

Work is terrible, but at least I faced it today in the knowledge I have a four-day week and that at least my hangover was champagne fuelled. There are worse hangovers.

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[not-vacillating.livejournal.com]

I'm moving house in June, and there are several basic kitchen things I don't own (having been borrowing them from housemates/landlords/etc.) I'm not sure of the practicalities but if you've got something which might be useful to me maybe we can work them out...

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

A lot of stuff was on its last legs, to be honest with you, but in terms of stuff that can be logically sent to your neck of the woods with little problems there's a nearly new frying pan, some oven gloves (singed), and some non-matching knives, forks and big spoons, a posh cheese grater sort of thing, and two old but serviceable non-stick pans with heavy wooden handles, one large and one medium. With slightly more issues but still very moveable there's a George Foreman grill (only ever really used for toasties) and a very old food processor which has all of the attachments and foofarrah on them.

They are all Very Second Hand (with the exception of the frying pan, which I am determined to send to a good home) and I feel a bit bad giving people my cast-offs, but the only stuff I'm willing to send on is the stuff with a few years left in them. The truly crappy stuff (there are pans with the bottom falling out!) will go to recycling.

Anyway, if any of that will help plug a hole in your kitchen then let me know.

[not-vacillating.livejournal.com]

Oven gloves, the George Foreman grill, and the food processor might all fill gaps in my kitchen - as might the frying pan. How big is it? I own a good frying pan but it's a rather small one.

I'm about to go away for a long weekend - apologies in advance for slow replies - but perhaps we can work on the logistics when I get back?

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

The frying pan is medium sized; will get a tape measure out when can face it. The oven gloves have gone AWOL so I suspect may have already ended up in the fabric recycling centre, many apologies for that.

Let me know when you're back and we can work on it from there - enjoy your weekend!

[not-vacillating.livejournal.com]

I'm back, and did enjoy myself, thank you! It sounds like the frying pan is almost certainly bigger than the one I have, which is decidedly a Small frying pan.