Archive: 2026-06
Week 283: Expensive plastic
The small crack in the shelf in the fridge door has graduated to a big crack, and a shard even fell out. I looked up the spare part – it’s just a squared-off polystyrene bucket – and it costs £82! That’s one eighth of the cost of the entire fridge! Unfortunately, the extended warranty on the fridge was only for three years, and this is closer to five years old.
Week 282: Frankenpad
I attended a Prokofiev concert. Not that one, although Gabriel Prokofiev is the Russian composer’s grandson. Even though I used to go to gigs at Iklectik regularly when they were in Waterloo, since they’ve moved into their new venue in the same building I work in I hadn’t been until last week. It doesn’t help that their website’s “What’s on” page still says that they’re updating it; I only knew about the event from a poster.