Ahh look, I have found a use for my lovely Greengate tin. I'm using it in the kitchen to keep my dishwasher tablets in. Yes, you heard right, DISHWASHER tablets. Oh yes, joy of joys and one whoppingly huge reason to be exceptionally cheerful around here :: I am now the proud owner of a Bosch Exccel Express SGS56E12GB. And its MAAARvelous I tell you!! Yes according to the blurb on the website, its designed to give me "Maxx Freedom Performance". And furthermore (and I quote)... "...Bosch dishwashers programmes and features are specifically
designed to make your day easier, to free up your precious time while
taking complete care of your most delicate items such as glass and
china. We deliver outstanding performance time after time so you can
rest easy in the knowledge that facing a pile of dirty dishes is one
chore you no longer have to concern yourself with."
Bravo!!
I had been moaning for quite some time about a) the state of my poor hands (I hate using washing up gloves) and b) the amount of time I seemed to be spending at the kitchen sink these days. Our kitchen is very small and the actual available worktop space is miniscule. Therefore it did peeve me greatly to have a large part of miniscule worktop taken up by accumulating piles of dirty dishes throughout the day.
I can't tell you how lovely it is now to be able to put dirty stuff out of sight, and not to have to wash up thirty two times a day. I mean, I do still have to wash some things as our current saucepans don't like dishwahsers, but it's a quick five minute job now instead of a continuous chore.
But I think the best thing about all this is the way in which my new White Appliance actually materialised. It was bought for me as a complete surprise by my wondrous
husband and installed by my lovely father-in-law (he is as good at
plumbing as he is with wood and scary tools) whilst I was out for the
day. I had no idea it was coming. When I walked into our (miniscule) kitchen that evening and saw it, I was overwhelmed with gratitude not only for the machine itself but for J who had gone all out to do this for me as a surprise. Yes OK I admit I often yelled and growled at the dirty dishes and was quite vocal about the fact that I was feeling peeved with the whole small-kitchen-dirty-stuff thing. But I kind of thought that maybe a dishwasher was asking a bit too much (cor, they're not cheap are they?). So I was really genuinely surprised that my moans had been heard, and I remain Thankful each day for such marvelous machinery and Maxx Freedom Performance.
It
has transformed my daily life, honestly, I am almost as much in love
with this hunk of white machinery as I am with Asparagus. Almost.
Oooh wow, what a lovely surprise! Well done J ! We don't have a dishwasher but I'm sure once (if and when) we do get one, I'd be wondering how the heck I have managed to live without one for so long! lol.
Posted by: Alice | June 10, 2008 at 08:42 PM
What a lovely surprise. I've got the same tin and can't think what to keep in it. Can't keep the dishwasher tablets in there - I don't have a dishwasher! Perhaps sweeties would be nice.
Posted by: Funkymonkey | June 10, 2008 at 08:18 PM
I have a Bosch dishwasher and every day I think it for a being so brilliant! I love her!
Posted by: clairey | June 10, 2008 at 01:03 PM