Here at our colourful home of BedZed we’re getting a new kitchen fitted and, as I write, there are things going bump through the wall. This all got me thinking about slightly worrying kitchen discoveries: not that we made any here I’m sure, but those of us who’ve been students or lived in well-cheap accommodation will know where I’m coming from here. Not all ‘issues’ are as immediately telling as the avocado bathroom suite, especially in the kitchen. Doors that fall off, fridges that you can never get that smell out of, discoveries that other inhabitants of this planet share your cooking space and housemates that hide the washing up in their rooms to avoid having to do it! It’s the little things that can make a kitchen a happy place to get your 5 a day in, like things that well, just work. I remember being delighted when I moved into a place that had a gas cooker I could light by using the switch made especially for the job. What a feeling, what a rush! (What a sad girl, this one!)
Thankfully, my kitchen stories of horror cannot be paralleled with my colleague Amy, whose kitchen, unbeknownst to her and her housemates, had an enormous hole in the wall through which the kitchen floor would regularly get flooded. When it dried out, it would grow proper mushrooms and everything. The landlord thought the step outside the back door was wonky and that was diverted the rain in…
(That reminds me of my mum’s morris traveller car that grew two beautiful little mushrooms in the back. I’m sure they harboured naughty faeries that made me rubbish at reverse parking.)
Mice, wiggly things, creepy crawly things? Don’t hold back; we have strong constitutions over ‘ere.
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