Unbought Delicacies: Kitchen scales with batteries..........

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Kitchen scales with batteries..........

.......WHY?????????????????????

7 comments:

Mara said...: Oh my!

When I met my husband he had a set of these. I grumbled a bit but it wasn't until mum moved in with us and brought her weights and proper scales that husband was converted. I said to him the other week "do you remember those electronic scales?" and he tried to bluff his way out of it. LOL I agree...quite pointless! people are obsessed with gadgets.; 8 January 2008 at 12:08
MrsL said...: Thought it might just be me, and awaited a barrage of abuse!! Keep it simple! My scales are fold-up ones I got at the tip, go on the wall, so take up very little room, the scale is at eye level, and the pan is a useful size. Before that I had the old fashioned scales with weights, but found them heavy to deal with, so sold them at a boot sale.; 8 January 2008 at 14:30
Mara said...: Those are the kind of scales we had at home when I was growing up. :)

I do like the weights...they look good as well as being functional. :); 8 January 2008 at 14:43
GigerVamp said...: I have my nans old manual scales, but i also have a set of electronic scales. why? because i need them for precise small measurements when i'm making soaps and bath/body stuff. :); 8 January 2008 at 16:52
Leanne said...: I have a set of cast iron scales with brass weights- an imperial set for me, and a set of metric ones in case I ever need them. We do have a set of battery run Salter scales in the dark recesses of a cupboard somewhere, my son brought them back from uni and the battery is flat. I must remember to take them to a charity shop...; 8 January 2008 at 18:17
MrsL said...: I just weigh my soap ingredients on my ordinary scales, they do fine for me.

I'm not having a go (well, maybe just a wee bit.....;)), each to their own and all that, more having a rail against gadgets for gadgets' sakes, I think. It's all part of my ongoing dis-electrification (?)getting rid of batteryies and doing as much my hand as possible of as much of my life as possible.

You'll get used to me:):):); 8 January 2008 at 22:11
GigerVamp said...: Oh, I understand that. I like using manual things too. :); 8 January 2008 at 22:16

I have found such joy

I have found such joy in simple things;
A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread,
A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings,
The shelter of a roof above my head,
And in a leaf-laced square along the floor,
Where yellow sunlight glimmers through the door.
I have found such joy in things that fill
My quiet days: a curtain's blowing grace,
A potted plant upon my window sill,
A rose, fresh-cut and placed within a vase;
A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair,
And books I long have loved beside me there.
Oh, I have found such joys I wish I might
Tell every woman who goes seeking far
For some elusive, feverish delight,
That very close to home the great joys are:
The elemental things- old as the race,
Yet never, through the ages, commonplace.

~ Grace Noll Crowell

Ideas for handmade gifts

Small knitteds - gloves, scarves, hot water bottle covers, hats, tea cosies, phone covers, little toys,,cushion covers, bags. Some of these can be felted/fulled for extra interest.
Edibles - chutneys and jams, pickles, nice teas in a vintage/retro tin, sweeties, toffees, mustard, home made wine and liqueurs, home dried fruits, ketchups.
For the home - trimmed tea towels, handknitted dishcloths, quilted wallhangings, small samplers, restored picture frames, pot pourri, lavender bags, covered coathangers, little scented bags for hanging on handles, framed photos of family,etc you've taken yourself, pincushion,needle book, scissor keeper, book of promises (eg babysitting, 1 hour's housework, the ironing, etc)
Bathtime - homemade soap, bath oils, bath salts, knitted washcloths, herbal bags for the bath, hand sewn toilet bags, trimmed hand towels, homemade lotions and potions packed in pretty jars and bottles.
For the garden - home saved seed in handmade decorated packets; homemade handcream, exfoliating soap, wheat bag for those digger's aches and pains!

Handmade books, personalised printed notepaper and envelopes.
Hamper of bits and bobs from the above lists, packed in a pretty lined basket.

I'll add some more as and when I think of them; These can be used all year round and easily tailored to the recipient - everyone loves a homemade gift. :)

Inspiring thoughts.............

I saw a man, an old Cilician, who occupied an acre or two of land that no one wanted.
A patch not worth the ploughing, unrewarding for flocks, unfit for vineyards;
he, however, by planting here and there among the scrub cabbages or white lilies and verbena and flimsy poppies, fancied himself a king in wealth, and coming home late in the evening, loaded his board with unbought delicacies.
Virgil

I had no theories to prove. I merely wanted to try living by my own hands, independently as far as possible from a system of division of labour in which the participant loses most of the pleasure of making and growing things for himself. I wanted to bring in my own fuel and smell its sweet smell as it burned in the hearth I had made. I wanted to grow my own food, or forage after it. In short I wanted to do as much as I could for myself, because I had already realised from partial experience the inexpressible joy of doing so.

Harlan Hubbard, Shantyboat: A River Way of Life

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Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Kitchen scales with batteries..........

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