I can [and often do] spend ages mooching around the Lakeland shop.All their products work so well.
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This is a bit like the urban legend of looking after someone's pet hamster and it dies so you go off to the pet shop and buy one that looks just like it. Excepting it's about the Joseph and Joseph kitchen utensil set husband bought when he decided our my favourite collection of assorted wooden spoons and spatulas were beginning to look a bit ratty.
Anyway it's on on of those carousels and when it first appeared in the kitchen next to my hob, I promptly fished all the discarded wooden spoons out of the recycling and hid them in a drawer. Then I tried to get used to the J&J but on one particular day about a week in, I obviously put the spatula too close to the hob flame, turned my back and - yep, it had caught alight! Managed to dowse the flames pretty quickly but was then left with a twisted smelly bit of plastic and one item short on the carousel. Phoned J&J (because I didn't have the receipt and didn't fancy 'fessing up because maybe, just maybe it was subconscious sabotage 
) only to discover that they don't sell individual replacements of the plain charcoal colour. So I kicked up a helluva stink about the dangers of selling inflammable implements without a warning and the poor woman went off and came back to tell me she had found one in the factory but I mustn't complain about it having "a few scratches".
A couple of days later my new set was complete again and no one was any the wiser. However! I've now got J&J scales, and a timer, because husband thinks I like the darn things. But I don't! I'm forever bumping the carousel and they all domino down on the counter. The very fancy digital scale wobbles all over the place and flashes "unstable" at me on a tiny screen. And the timer isn't loud enough.
So if there is an addition to the J&J collection in my Christmas stocking (because I fear he thinks he is on to a good thing) I may just have to come clean after all and break his design-loving heart.
I sound so ungrateful but is it only me that likes my familiar, battered old stuff?
I am sorry. I have to say this. There is no "and".
Joseph Joseph. That's all. 
Jing, I would argue that there is Joseph, and then there's another one. Therefore, we have Joseph and Joseph. I rest my case.
Oh suit yerself knot. 
My husband once bought me a set of weights (not the kitchen variety) and an exercise workout bench! 
he's had a lot of use out of them, as have our sons.
DD's wedding Anniversary last weekend. She bought him snazzy stainless steel cuff links (it being the 'steel' Anniv). He bought her cotton sheets (thinking it was a cotton Anniv, which of course it had been 9 years earlier). She was not best pleased I think she should be grateful; if I got a card from the late Mr.G I considered myself lucky!
What's an anniversary card?!!
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