h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Righty.

Having recently ventured to Woolworths I now have a duvet cover, a sheet, four pillow cases, salt & pepper grinders, a one cup (although they seem to think it's a three cup: do they think I'm posh or summit?) cafethierryhenrier, a spatula, a ladle thing with slits in it, a knife block (with knives in it), some of that horrible cutlery with the bubbles in the handles with a little metal cylinder thing to keep 'em in, a chopping board and a Tefal frying pan. I nearly didn't buy the frying pan because they call it a 'fry' pan. Divots.

I also have a set of disgustingly cheap crockery (big plates, little plates and those funny plates that bend up and which horse botherers fill with that muesli stuff, probably in an attempt to get a bit of horsey action in the morning. For the last time I say to these main molesters 'Oi, it's NOT hygenic to have a horse in your bed, let alone your kitchen!)

I still need a duvet, a couple of pillows and quite a lot of other stuff.

The washing machine has stolen my clothes and refuses to do a spin cycle.

It's hot in here. So hot I might have to take some clothes off and slowly caress my naked torso with a chilled bottle of Hobgoblin.

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continue please

Shall I take out the flogger....

Take out the flogger? That's a bit harsh.*

Nadgers, I still need towels and a draining rack too.

*that was a reference to The Comic Strip Presents, specifically the episode Mr Jolly Lives Next Door.

Well, I had just read A24590964 and got inspired...

Good luck with sorting out your stuff into the new place.

One wonders if B'Elana is a bit of a dark horse.

A bit of what?

B'Elana! I never knew you were an expert in such things.

Congrats with the new flat Roy

Is it a nice new haven? Good to be on your own doing your own thang? Furnished/Unfurnished? Hot and cold running water? Sea views?

The flat's OK, still a few things wrong with it (especially the clothes kidnapping washing machine. I want my trousers back!) but it's a decent area with a very local off licence.

I think he can 'see' the views, but only if he stands on a chair and holds his head at a *certain* angle

>a Tefal frying pan<

One if the best things I ever bought was two of those, Roy. Bloody marvellous, I've had 'em for four years and they are still going strong and the food doesn't stick at all!

>>I want my trousers back!<<

I imagine that's not the first time you've had occasion to say that

Good stuff, and the most important amenities close at hand.

I hope you're very, very happy there anyway

They are good. I had one couple of years back but it got left behind after a panic move.

I still haven't got a duvet or pillowcases: looks like it'll be another sleeping bag & rucksack combo tonight! Oddly enough I just bought a bottle of Brothers Pear Cider so it'll be just like my own little Glasto! But with less mud.

I was going to say don't forget to buy some towels... but I see you've already mentioned them Hmm... how about pots and pans? a sive? colender? pint glasses, cocktail glasses, red wine glasses, white wine glasses, champaign flukes, brandy glasses, and a sign to hang on the door? a dustbin? a soap on a rope? an electric coffeee grinder? a small set of ornate drawers from 14th centuary France, origionally designed as part of a pair, and adapted from their origional use as a surgins storage device for holding scaples and saws and suchlike, but due to a 16th centuary modification redesigned/altered to be a set of drawers for a cabin boy on a ship... ooo I know. a trouser press. everyone needs a trouser press. well, no, I don't know anyonw with a trouser press, but you could be something of a trend-setter

Actually... more seriously perhaps, when it comes to 'house' things, and kitchen things, your probably best off just buying the essential things you know you use, and then getting anything else you need as and when you need it or you'l just end up with a pasta making machine, a waffle making electric device, a toasted sandwich machine, and a special little device for removeing the skin off rats... .

Ooh, hang on, the old 'someone popping up while you're typing the reply to the previous one and throwing the whole thing out of kilter, oi! italics, give us a quote wotsit in our replies!' problem.

Mrs. B. It's a bit of a tip at the moment (I would take a photo or two but it's just too ghastly, and I haven't a clue where the USB cable for the 'phone is!) but should be good once I've sorted everything out. I seem to be in need of a book/DVD case.

A biscuit barrel for the midnight munchies! Any old biscuit tin'll do in the meantime, though.

I have four beer festival pint glasses, two mugs, a bunch of plateage, a saucepan, a frying pan and assorted cutlery. Getting there slowly!

I'm a bloke so I don't do biscuits. Cheese on toast is my midnight munchiness, with mayo, pepper sauce, black pepper & basil. I snack properly!

A tin opener? a corkscrew? a bottle opener? a cheese grater? Actually its very easy to end up with stuff you just don't really need... but those are things that I do tend to use.... we've some strange stuff in our cutlary drawer can't remember wehre I got the rat de-skinning device from though

>I seem to be in need of a book/DVD case.<

Cheapo ones in Argoos, I've had mine for (you've guessed it) 4 years and they travelled well to this place. I have the black ones, they do show up the dust a bit but are as sturdy as anything.

I had to bastardise some shelving unit I had when I moved here two years ago but I now have DVD/bookshelves in the recesses in two rooms from it (and it was originally a freebie) The buggar has even helped with 'Queen Marying' my sons bed on more than one occasion