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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: HesterF on May 02, 2014, 12:19:12 pm
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....or somebody else.
A friend - who I suspect fears for her health every time I offer her a cup of coffee - has nominated me for a new kitchen in a Period Living competition:
http://www.periodliving.co.uk/goodwill-award/individual-heroes (http://www.periodliving.co.uk/goodwill-award/individual-heroes)
I must admit I would love a new kitchen because ours was put in over 20 years ago and I'm a bit fed up of the drawer fronts falling off, the fridge/freezer handles breaking and the oven glass needing to be stuck back in again. It's on a back burner until various other (money generating projects) have been completed so I think it's about five years down the line in terms of when we can afford to do anything with it.
Having said that, there are others in there that look far more worthy when I read the descriptions.
Anyhow, if you could vote for me (Hester Fenwick - pictured holding a duckling in the kitchen with my youngest messy creature), I'd be really grateful. Or if you read through and decide others deserve it more (there are other categories too), I wouldn't blame you ;)
Thanks
Hester
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i have voted for you. Having spent my adult life until very recently in rented military accomodation I feel for anyone living with a 20 year old kitchen - what a nightmare.
I hope you win! :)
6/6 fertile duck eggs by the way, due to hatch a week on sunday :&> :&>
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Thanks Clarabelle - I suspect the nightmare is half of my making and I have promised my friend that if I win I will no longer keep chicks, ducklings or any other livestock in the kitchen (beyond the cats passing through).
So glad you got all fertile eggs - had feedback earlier from another TASer who only got 50% so I was beginning to worry. Fingers crossed for hatching - it's been a complete pain this year but the Cayugas tend to be better than the Appleyards at getting out (and can come a day or two early so put them into shut down by the Friday).
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Voted :thumbsup:
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You got my vote. Pleased to see this actually - I won a subscription to the mag so had seen the competition and thought it was a shame I couldn't nominate/vote for anyone... :thumbsup:
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Done! Good luck...
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I voted for you. a decent kitchen is so important if you love cooking. hope you win!
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Done! wishing you luck :fc:
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Done good luck :fc:
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I voted for you but then I went back in a voted for the lady who feeds the homeless as I thought she deserved one too. There was nothing to say I couldn't vote twice and everyone was so deserving.
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:thumbsup: you got my vote Hester
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Voted :) For you. Fingers crossed :fc:
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Thanks all - much appreciated!
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So many deserving cases... :fc: for you H.
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I voted for....... Hester! :thumbsup:
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Done with you in mind Hester , we had a black leaded 200 yr or so yr old open range with hanging rails to cook on from when I was born in 1950 till I was 15 , how mum kept us fed would astound many folks on here ...
We started my second married life 26 years ago in a 1950's council house , the kitchen had an old 1950's grey gas cooker and a Burco boiler .. both with soft rubber orange connecting hoses , a Belfast sink with a cold tap only & a built in under the stair pantry & red quarry tiles on the floor .
You deserve a kitchen if yours is 20 yrs. old as it must really be falling to bits ... they don't make e'm like they used to .
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;D They certainly don't - no way could I have coped in your mum's kitchen! Mind you, our predecessor was a bachelor in his eighties so I don't think cooking for a family, let alone 'preserving the harvest', was top of his priority list. I'm sure he'd have coped for another twenty years in it if fate had not intervened....
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Done, good luck.
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Thanks!