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Aga
The Aga's had a bit of an oopsie: Mike turned it on a week or so ago, but over the last few days it's been running very cold. It's still lit, just not as hot as it should be.
Mike called the guy who services it and, after chasing several times they said they didn't want to do it as they don't want to cover this area any more. They did give him another company to try, and we've booked them to come out next week, but he's turned it off for now, as all it's doing is warming the kitchen slightly.
(I'm a little concerned about the people we've got booked: they knew the address and used to look after it until about four years ago. Did the previous owners drop them because they were crap, or did they drop the previous owners because it's such a horrible franken-Aga...? They're charging us £lots just to come and see if they're interested in taking it on, which seems ominous to me. A new Aga may be moving higher up the shopping list, although at least the shell of the one we have is worth something to a refurb company.)
We went to the Canterbury Food Festival today, which was much bigger than I'd expected / feared. Didn't buy a huge amount, but I suspect that you could have eaten your lunch entirely from freebies if you'd been brazen enough. We did get some pigeon (dinner tonight) and rabbit (stew!), and I had some lovely marshmallows for pudding (which reminded me that I do have a recipe that I've been meaning to try out).
Mike called the guy who services it and, after chasing several times they said they didn't want to do it as they don't want to cover this area any more. They did give him another company to try, and we've booked them to come out next week, but he's turned it off for now, as all it's doing is warming the kitchen slightly.
(I'm a little concerned about the people we've got booked: they knew the address and used to look after it until about four years ago. Did the previous owners drop them because they were crap, or did they drop the previous owners because it's such a horrible franken-Aga...? They're charging us £lots just to come and see if they're interested in taking it on, which seems ominous to me. A new Aga may be moving higher up the shopping list, although at least the shell of the one we have is worth something to a refurb company.)
We went to the Canterbury Food Festival today, which was much bigger than I'd expected / feared. Didn't buy a huge amount, but I suspect that you could have eaten your lunch entirely from freebies if you'd been brazen enough. We did get some pigeon (dinner tonight) and rabbit (stew!), and I had some lovely marshmallows for pudding (which reminded me that I do have a recipe that I've been meaning to try out).