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

It's great to receive welcome messages from the 'old hands'. Though a little daunting to realise there are people actually bothering to read this......

I could spend hours browsing h2g2,having my say here and there and have to restrain myself, I have a real life outside. But then which is the real one?

This is the real one. Definitely.

I'm glad to hear that!

BTW how're your electrical appliances bearing up in the dream world? I noticed your journal entry. I'm convinced I'm jinxed as far as fridges, vacuum cleaners & washing machines are concerned. Nothing seems to last longer than just beyond the warranty. What do I do to them?
Still what with that & the rain, gives me plenty of time here!
Now my freezer - well that faithful old fellow has been going for about 20 years despite being opened almost as often as the fridge & sporting an ice ruff.

Cheers

Yes. I once bought a second hand chest freezer for £40 and it lasted me for about 20 years without ever being defrosted (though it became progressively smaller till I started hacking off chunks with a chisel ) and I have TVs about that age.
I think they deliberately build them to fail in that time period these days.
The £700 pound Bosch thing is actually still going strong, three months later.
I realised as soon as he mentioned the fact that they sell them that he was just trying to make me buy a new one but we've decided that when it finally dies we just won't bother with a freezer.
We're intending to sell the house and travel round the world in a motorhome as soon as he retires and they leave school anyway so it will be one less thing to have to get rid of at that point.