Utensils?

[caddyman]

Before my shower, I stood in the kitchen brewing up a nice cup of tea to settle me down before sleep.

It occurred to me, whilst I was watching the tea spoon fail to sink as it rested athwart the most buoyant teabag in the history of er... teabags, that I am one of two people who can say without fear of contradiction that we have a boxed TARDIS, and inflatable shark, two plastic eyeballs in an ancient jar of hair gel¹ and an X-Files Erlenmeyer Flask, complete with alien phoetus sitting in the kitchen.


X-Files Flask on left. Real Erlenmeyer Flask on right. The boring one.

We also have a potted plant called Bilbo.

I daresay that many kitchens out there have one or some of these items, but I am reasonably certain that only The Carpathia can boast them all.

Life is grand.

¹Answering to the name Claudius, what else?

Comments

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

An ancient jar of hair gel that talks? now that's scarey, especially as it can look at you with the eyeballs too *shudders and worries about nightmares*

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It doesn't talk so much as quiver...

[pauln.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's where the Rangdo is hiding himself since the aspidistra disguise stopped working.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

You don't have a large plastic stag beetle any more, though. I know this because it's currently sitting on my PC unit scaring people who come into the office!

:D

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Did I used to have a large plastic stag beetle? I have no memory of it!

Sitting on a PC is a good place for such a thing!

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

It was Furtles, so I like to think that I relieved you of it :)

She sent an email around asking if anyone wanted a gigantic plastic beetle and I thought, how can I say no to that?

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Quite right! It is a GOOD beetle!

[romney.livejournal.com]

Good Grief, that episode was from 1994...

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

Have you reinstated the rubber chicken in a teapot experiment?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Sadly I do not have a big enough teapot.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I love you. And ellefurtle.

In non-squidgy ways, of course.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Was it the alien phoetus or the shark that clinched it for you? ;-D