Last week we bought a new dishwasher because the one that came with the house died. It was a long slow death but when it was over it was definitely over. I think Callum helped it along, he is a Button Pusher Extraordinaire. I often find clothes in the washing machine still dry because the sneaky little munchkin has wandered in when I have left the door open and turned the bloody thing off.

But we can't blame him for the oven because he can't reach that. So that is this week's appliance on the blink. It has been on the way out for ages, it's probably as old as the house. It's brown, which was all the rage once I am sure! We had to use a special door-staying-closed device when it was cooking, to keep the heat in. But last night I tried to close the door and the whole thing just went WHUMP and now we need the door-staying-closed device on the whole time just to stop the door falling down. The door for the grill fell off a while ago, lol, gawd.

We wanted to renovate our whole kitchen, which meant we were going to get everything all lovely and shiny at that time so we just put up with it, but now it has become more of a one at a time kind of situation. It would have been nice to be able to plan it a bit more because there are a few things we want to change around.

But we're getting there anyway, the fridge was replaced not so long ago, replacing my little old single-gal-living-in-a-granny-flat one with a lovely big stainless family-sized jobby. Exactly the same situation with the microwave. And now the new dishwasher matches, and the new oven will match both of those. Noice.