I have just had a brilliant idea!

I have two freezers full of ufos if anyone wants them.
At the moment I have no kitchen as EVERYTHING has been packed away so that the work surfaced can be replaced on Friday.
Gary and Kate literally did pack it all and I have nothing to prepare, cook, or even eat with!
Must remember in future to not be so general in instructions to people with literal minds!
They won't be replaced until next Monday either. And as I'm at work, heaven knows where they'll put anything. Kate's mind seems to work differently to mine!

Would that really work when? I could so do with an early morning cuppa. And DH doesn't oblige.

I'm wondering a bit how you would get it out of the slow cooker pot and into your cup. Don't think I could drink straight out of my slow cooker. (which I have never actually taken out of its box) (being more a microwave sort of a girl)

You could keep a ladle by the bed. Or just swoosh a cup in the mulch. Or buy a teasmaid. Or train up your DH better.

I've given up on the latter. (actually I could give it another go)

Teasmaid would be a bit fiddly at night.

Not really a cooking tip, but my MiL used to collect all those little sachets and pots of butter, salt, pepper, shampoo, marmalade, ketchup etc that you get in hotels. It was especially good when she sat on her handbag and the marmalade pot split....

My mother used to mince leftover Yorkshire pudding and put it in a bolognese sauce in Monday. That was nice too....

I suppose you could tie the teabag to a piece of unwanted string and tie the other end to the handle of the slow cooker, then simply fish it out. Don't forget to untie the string so you can use it again the next day, unless you have an unlimited supply of unwanted string. I don't!

I'm not bothered about the tea bag! How do you drink the tea out of a slow cooker? #thereisnospout

Through a long bent straw. You don't even need to sit up.

I'd be careful about leaving an empty slow cooker by the side of the bed. You never know what it might get used for

My grandma used to boil her knickers in a saucepan while the stove was on.

Adds a kick to the tea, Merlot

Did she use the cooking water for stock, Mamie?

There's a perfect example of thrift, Mamie. Boil the knickers, drape them over the bath to dry, then pop the tea bag in! Don't do it the other way round - you don't want tea-coloured knickers (taps side of nose knowingly)

I don't know, When A lot of knickers used to be that shade of droopy pink that was almost as though they had been dipped in tea.

My lovely old Great-Aunt, bright and sparky to the end of her long life, died in her own bed aged 94.

She used to take a hot water bottle to bed each night, filled from the kettle which she had heated to make her bedtime drink. Then in the morning she used the water from the hot water bottle for her ablutions - only just aired by then of course.

She was a very thrifty Yorkshire woman but always had a welcome for any visitors and a ready fund of stories to amuse. I miss her.

The stock certainly tasted like it, Merlot. So did the tea, come to think of it.
She was also a crumble queen. Apple, pear: fair enough. Chicken, mince, leftover lamb: not so good.

My grandma saved a lot of money because she only cooked one hot meal a day at lunchtime. Then she kept it warm until I got in at 5pm, my sister at 7pm and my father at 8pm.

merlot you made me laugh out loud.

Elegran that is a good suggestion.

Keep the straw from your fruit drink, of course.

You may need to tape two or three together, of course, to reach...

Don't you just love it when you kill a thread stone dead?

Nah! Ana. We've just been watching 'Bake Off'

You are an absolutely crazy bunch. I have never laughed so much in bed for ages (well since..........)

Elegran hope the straws aren't the same ones that vegasmags used to transport her poorly worms to the vets!