A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I bought one of the greatest devices known to the human race. I bought a kettle. It was a mighty device. It was fitted with an internal water filter for filtering pre-boiled water. It boiled water when water was needed to be boiled, and it did the job without complaining. And then it poured the freshly-boiled water without mess or argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward a fairly big bunch of years and I bought a kettle for my girlfriend who lived far, far away in the distant, frozen, north (Nottingham). Why I did this, is a story for another time. But what was logical was that I bought it from where I had bought my ancient but still functioning kettle. This was Sainsbury’s. And from that noble purveyor of water-boiling devices I obtained the same model of kettletech that I had once procured for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward an even bigger bunch of years than we just did in the previous paragraph, and you will find that this household is still using what was the kettle I bought for Sam. It is in many-times daily use, filtering and boiling, filtering and boiling, filtering and boiling. Except it isn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This morning it refused to engage in its primary function. Refused point blank. The bastard. This refusal to follow orders meant that I was denied my only mug of tea of the day. And denied multiple mugs of hot chocolate. Or was I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went into the TARDISS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space Store), a place so secret that I have given it a codename: ‘The Garage’. From one of the many scientific-magical places in ‘The Garage’, I retrieved my original – yet ancient – water-filtering, water-boiling device. I brought it into the house, cleaned it up, replaced the water filter and ran a couple of dozen measures of water through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m just enjoying a mug of hot chocolate. For an emergency replacement piece of kit, the old kettle has done a reasonable job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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