Yet more frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...

[DodgyGeezer]

M1K3 said:

DodgyGeezer said:

illmonkey said:

M1K3 said:

This post has also just cost me, I now have 6 pairs of shorts being made…

Jorts?

Don't know how you found me but stop taking pics of me!

I'm not a piece of meat...!

[Sporky]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

At first I thought it was a wok, but now I think its a paella pan.

I thought it was a weird bar stool.

[skwdenyer]

jimmyjimjim said:

SistersofPercy said:

I looked at the ice cream maker but I think it’s for the standard models not the bowl lift, so happily for my waistline it won’t work
I do need to use it more though.

Bye bye waistline (I seem to recall you're an ice cream fan?):

https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/s...

"Fits all KitchenAid® Tilt-Head Stand Mixers, except Artisan® Mini models - KSM3316 and KSM3317. Fits all KitchenAid® Bowl-Lift Stand Mixers, except the following 5, 5.5 and 6 Quart models - K5SS, KSM50, KSM500 and KSM450."

We have 2 of those. You have to pre-chill the bowl. So in the midst of a hot summer we bought a second kit. Now we never run out! But definitely frivolous.

[jimmyjimjim]

skwdenyer said:

We have 2 of those. You have to pre-chill the bowl. So in the midst of a hot summer we bought a second kit. Now we never run out! But definitely frivolous.

It takes up an annoyingly large chunk of the freezer.

[DodgyGeezer]

jimmyjimjim said:

skwdenyer said:

We have 2 of those. You have to pre-chill the bowl. So in the midst of a hot summer we bought a second kit. Now we never run out! But definitely frivolous.

It takes up an annoyingly large chunk of the freezer.

be frivolous and get a 2nd/3rd (small) freezer

[David A]

DodgyGeezer said:

jimmyjimjim said:

skwdenyer said:

We have 2 of those. You have to pre-chill the bowl. So in the midst of a hot summer we bought a second kit. Now we never run out! But definitely frivolous.

It takes up an annoyingly large chunk of the freezer.

be frivolous and get a 2nd/3rd (small) freezer

I’ve got the bowl freezer thing for the kenwood chef mixer. Somehow also bought a proper freezer ice cream machine ie mini compressor job and wouldn’t consider using the kenwood now !

[skwdenyer]

DodgyGeezer said:

jimmyjimjim said:

skwdenyer said:

We have 2 of those. You have to pre-chill the bowl. So in the midst of a hot summer we bought a second kit. Now we never run out! But definitely frivolous.

It takes up an annoyingly large chunk of the freezer.

be frivolous and get a 2nd/3rd (small) freezer

We do have 1 full height freezer, I under-counter freezer, and a fridge-freezer. I agree that in a more mainstream domestic set-up, the volume of the bowl could be a pain

[SistersofPercy]

DodgyGeezer said:

be frivolous and get a 2nd/3rd (small) freezer

I went down that route of frivolity last month….
My dogs are fed raw and I was fed up of their food talking up half the main freezer. I now have plenty of room for ice cream….

My frlvol has been culled a little. Currently in Disney and rather gutted to find I own all the Phantom Manor and Small World merch currently available. Still. It can go towards an ice cream maker

[RC1807]

Dog Star said:

Just had a Lego Ornithopter from Dune delivered.



It’s a bit more, er, technical than I expected; the assembly instructions run to 227 pages

Mrs DS says I can’t hang it from the lounge ceiling

Marital bedroom ceiling?

[Stick Legs]

Many years ago I watched a BBC Timewatch documentary about David Shepherd painting the last days of steam.

I was reminded of this when having a beer in Kings Cross recently I saw a print of one of his paintings on the wall.

So naturally I bought this one:




No idea where I’m going to hang it.
Doesn’t match the decor in most of the house.
Wife isn’t keen on ‘transportation’ subjects in art anyway…

I love it.

I’ll find somewhere for it one day.

[Fallingup]

Stick Legs said:

Many years ago I watched a BBC Timewatch documentary about David Shepherd painting the last days of steam.

I was reminded of this when having a beer in Kings Cross recently I saw a print of one of his paintings on the wall.

So naturally I bought this one:




No idea where I’m going to hang it.
Doesn’t match the decor in most of the house.
Wife isn’t keen on ‘transportation’ subjects in art anyway…

I love it.

I’ll find somewhere for it one day.

Lovely. Definitely not frivolous.

[droopsnoot]

Stick Legs said:

Many years ago I watched a BBC Timewatch documentary about David Shepherd painting the last days of steam.

I was reminded of this when having a beer in Kings Cross recently I saw a print of one of his paintings on the wall.

So naturally I bought this one:




No idea where I’m going to hang it.
Doesn’t match the decor in most of the house.
Wife isn’t keen on ‘transportation’ subjects in art anyway…

I love it.

I’ll find somewhere for it one day.

I've got a lovely book about him, showing how he builds up the paintings from early sketches and so on. I must find it.

[Sporky]

Wanted something like this since we moved in. A much needed touch of class.

[ASA569]

Sporky said:

Wanted something like this since we moved in. A much needed touch of class.

The bear or the mat?

[P5BNij]

Stick Legs said:

Many years ago I watched a BBC Timewatch documentary about David Shepherd painting the last days of steam.

I was reminded of this when having a beer in Kings Cross recently I saw a print of one of his paintings on the wall.

So naturally I bought this one:




No idea where I’m going to hang it.
Doesn’t match the decor in most of the house.
Wife isn’t keen on ‘transportation’ subjects in art anyway…

I love it.

I’ll find somewhere for it one day.

Love that Shepard painting - a mate of a mate was based at Nine Elms Shed and was the fireman on Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train out of Waterloo in January '65.

[Sporky]

ASA569 said:

The bear or the mat?

Good question!

The bear.

The mat was an early acquisition.

[ben5575]

I see Lego are releasing a new dnd based set in a fortnight’s time…

[ASA569]

Sporky said:

ASA569 said:

The bear or the mat?

Good question!

The bear.

The mat was an early acquisition.

[Sporky]

The bear was made by a man on a grass verge next to a lay-by in Devon. I'm always careful to be polite to people with chainsaws, but he was perfectly friendly.

[ChemicalChaos]

Sporky said:

ASA569 said:

The bear or the mat?

Good question!

The bear.

The mat was an early acquisition.

I bought one of those mats a while ago, unfortunately as I love in Liverpool I now get no visitors at all

In all seriousness though, how is yours holding up? Looks like you have quite a sheltered porch? Mine is out in the elements and within 2 weeks it was borderline unreadable, shame really but then it is only stencilled on rather than a different colour weave.

In other frivolous news, bought this as I already have the batteries, and it's handy for both keeping my Shogun chassis salt free (ah, JDM steel) and also for spot washing bits of the pavement outside my house where filthy chavs neglect to clean up after their dags.

It's capable of running from a pop bottle as well as a hose, unfortunately I don't tend to buy 2 litre pop. Luckily I had another empty bottle I could improvise with