OBITUARY NOTICES

This blog should really be surrounded with a thick black border!

It is with heavy hearts and tearful eyes that the Bentley family will be wishing farewell for ever to their beloved kitchen! It has served us well over the last twenty odd years, but has now reached the time when it sadly will have to be consigned to the Community Care Home for Contented Kitchens.

We have been assured that it will be treated with the greatest respect and care by the nurses and care staff at the home, and receive regular visits and medical check ups from the resident GP. It will no doubt be receving a Royal Birthday Greeting when it reaches its century!

Those of you of a mathematical bent will be delighted to know that on average it has produced at least 730 breakfasts a year, and over its lifetime will have produced in excess of 14,600 breakfasts, as well as a similar number of assorted dinners, teas and other meals!

The oven (a Belling) has only needed two heating element replacements in that time, whilst the grill continues to work to full capacity, needing no doctors visits or hospitalisation! The gas hobs have similarly needed no extra care. 

Take a last look. By this time next week it will have gone........

Farewell old friend!

Barbecues and a Kitchen

The Social Calendar of the family has been a little full over the last two weekends. Hence the lack of any blogging since my previous one!   

Last Friday (8th April) we were invited up to East Marton to join Chris Simpson (of Magna Carta fame) to help celebrate the birthday of his good lady - Cathy. Since his semi retirement, Chris has purchased a narrowboat which he has christened "Seasons" - after one of his most successful recordings.

When we arrived there were already about half a dozen people gathered around a barbecue. One of the local canal dwellers - a wonderful character who seems to survive on a regular intake of alcohol - was there, and during the first quarter of an hour he managed to consume a full bottle of white wine. 

We took Ruby with us, and she enjoyed an extended swim in the canal, after having being made a fuss of by all the people at the barbecue!

                   

Earlier in the week I had given three different talks ["Down Memory Lane - Radio & TV Music of the 50's and 60's", "The Musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstien", and "Classical Music used in Advertising"] to three different groups of people, as well as played for two funerals and also played for a "sing along" morning assembly at the local Primary School, to which all the parents had been invited.

The BIG NEWS of the week is that the lady of the house has finally succeeded in persuading me to purchase a new kitchen (so from now on you will see me in threadbare clothing!) The picture above gives you the general idea of what the units look like. It is a Magnet "Shaker Cream" kitchen.