Of kettles
Sunday, August 15th, 2004 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanYou may remember that a couple of months ago I was forced, due to the effects of time and use, to purchase a new kettle.
Having just popped out to make the second coffee of the morning before sloping off to do laundry, I was moved to rinse the kettle out and put completely fresh water in rather than just checking the existing level was enough to be getting on with.
Now I'm not saying that London water is hard (well, yes I am, actually) but the amount of brown scale that was building up inside was quite amazing. Luckily it seems to have little inclination to attach itself to plastic unlike the efforts it made to become one with my old metal kettle. Anyway, swirling it all around and rinsing trapped most of this detritus in the mesh filter. Again, easily rinsed out.
But it did start me thinking. Especially with this current warm weather, it should be reasonably easy to calcify something in a jar just using water from the bottom of the kettle once every couple of weeks and allowing the water to evaporate.
The hunt is now on for something I can turn into a 21st century fossil....
Having just popped out to make the second coffee of the morning before sloping off to do laundry, I was moved to rinse the kettle out and put completely fresh water in rather than just checking the existing level was enough to be getting on with.
Now I'm not saying that London water is hard (well, yes I am, actually) but the amount of brown scale that was building up inside was quite amazing. Luckily it seems to have little inclination to attach itself to plastic unlike the efforts it made to become one with my old metal kettle. Anyway, swirling it all around and rinsing trapped most of this detritus in the mesh filter. Again, easily rinsed out.
But it did start me thinking. Especially with this current warm weather, it should be reasonably easy to calcify something in a jar just using water from the bottom of the kettle once every couple of weeks and allowing the water to evaporate.
The hunt is now on for something I can turn into a 21st century fossil....
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Date: 2004-08-15 05:44 am (UTC)London water; it's well 'ard innit ;)
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Date: 2004-08-15 05:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-15 09:36 am (UTC)Old Joe was looking quite spritely on The Concert for George
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Date: 2004-08-15 05:56 am (UTC)I'll get me coat.
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Date: 2004-08-15 09:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-15 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-16 12:42 am (UTC)Only a little imagination needed, Sirrah... ;-)
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Date: 2004-08-16 11:45 am (UTC)That said I fully expect that you wil make my out of character life utterly hellish in some way. =)
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Date: 2004-08-16 03:43 pm (UTC)Bugger.
You are an evil swine, you know that, don't you....?
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Date: 2004-08-18 05:05 pm (UTC)Fossils
Date: 2004-08-15 07:57 am (UTC)Kidnap a Lawlord...
Re: Fossils
Date: 2004-08-15 09:33 am (UTC)A plastic teakettle?
Date: 2004-08-15 09:02 am (UTC)Re: A plastic teakettle?
Date: 2004-08-15 09:32 am (UTC)Well, in the UK they are...
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Date: 2004-08-15 09:45 am (UTC)or maybe a shoe.
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Date: 2004-08-15 09:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-15 01:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-16 02:43 am (UTC)