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caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2008-07-03 12:51 am

Utensils?

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?

[identity profile] snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] ellefurtle.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite right! It is a GOOD beetle!