Recommend a Thing That Makes You Happy

LadySybilVimes

Random recommendations for things that probably don’t warrant their own thread but make you happy.

First one: this newsletter by Helen Joyce called The Bluestocking. Helen Lewis is a journalist at The Atlantic and she recently wrote a book called Difficult Women. I always look forward to this arriving in my email, she’s such a good, thoughtful, funny writer. And it’s free!

https://helenlewis.substack.com

Next one: My new airfryer. I had a small one but I’ve just given that one away and bought the Sunbeam 4 in 1 air fryer. It’s one of the big ones like an oven with shelves in it. I love it. I use it nearly every day. It even has a rotisserie in it to cook a (smallish) roast. I did a chicken in it and it was great!

https://www.sunbeam.com.au/kitchen-and-home/cooking/compact-ovens/4-in-1-air-fryer-oven

Anyone have a recommendation?

DYNAR

LadySybilVimes Next one: My new airfryer. I had a small one but I’ve just given that one away and bought the Sunbeam 4 in 1 air fryer. It’s one of the big ones like an oven with shelves in it. I love it. I use it nearly every day. It even has a rotisserie in it to cook a (smallish) roast. I did a chicken in it and it was great!

https://www.sunbeam.com.au/kitchen-and-home/cooking/compact-ovens/4-in-1-air-fryer-oven

I just have a Kmart one but when it does this is the sort I want. I’m not big on cooking so we have a boring rotation (I’ll never be a contestant in marmalade’s dinner thread 😂) but shelves would be handy.

Chookas

A new kitchen 😊? It’s still making me stupidly happy after what I had before.

LadySybilVimes

I’d love a new kitchen. Also new house to go around it but I’d settle for kitchen.

Camokat

I got a new fridge and a new kitten, they both make me pretty happy 😄

The fridge is this one, in white:

https://www.mitsubishielectric.com.au/mr-wx500c-s-multi-drawer-refrigerator.html

It was stupidly expensive, but damn it’s a good fridge! The drawer that does the fast-chilling is surprisingly useful, though tbh for the last few weeks it’s been our Easter egg drawer 😂. Having the special low-temp section for meat helps the meat last longer - a couple of times I haven’t got around to using chicken until past its use by date, and it was okay because the meat compartment is so cold. The veggie drawer is really good too, I definitely notice the veg lasting longer.

As for the kitten…she is a beautiful mog with a purr like a turbo-prop engine 🥰. I will try to post a pic, but they usually don’t work for me on here for some reason…

Wilding

Camokat the all seeing eye has entered the chat <3 and @Camokat

Camokat

Ooh, it worked! You’re all in trouble now, I’ve got dozens of photos of her 😄

LadySybilVimes

Gorgeous cat!

Heyho2

This gorgeous mug by an artist called Dai Li. Makes me smile everytime.

Camokat

Oh, that’s delightful! Where did you buy it from?

Heyho2

A shop called paperboatpress. It was a limited edition type thing. She usually makes beautiful sculptures, but made bowls and mugs, I guess it was a commission? (I don’t really know art terms…) I think they sold pretty quickly!

Gum-boots

Coffee makes me happy. Coffee and wine.

And being in the middle of a really good book.

CassandraNORI

Coffee makes me very happy too - it’s the thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.

We’ve recently built an office out in our shed so working from home means getting out of the actual house, and also has allowed us to give the DDs their own room each which makes me happy too.

@LadySybilVimes I keep hearing about how great air fryers are and eyeing them off but I don’t know if I’d use it. Is it true that you can’t use them on the kitchen bench? Do they take up a lot of valuable bench space?

LadySybilVimes

CassandraNORI @LadySybilVimes I keep hearing about how great air fryers are and eyeing them off but I don’t know if I’d use it. Is it true that you can’t use them on the kitchen bench? Do they take up a lot of valuable bench space?

Not huge amounts of space. Maybe about the same as a bread maker?

WidowWyncke

They are bulky but ours is always on our kitchen bench.

Llama

https://strongsongspodcast.com

This podcast. I’m not a music nerd, just a fan. And I love how accessible it makes the music side.

LadySybilVimes

That looks great. They have an episode on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights! I love her.

PuddingPlease

My daughter is making little sentences using an Up Words set on the floor. It’s really cute and some of them are funny.

Today was a bit tough, I have an assignment due soon and I’m finding it really difficult. I think I can get it done but I’ve had to adjust my expectations a bit. Her sister is still not feeling 100% today.

It’s nice to watch her get absorbed in something.

Heyho2

What are you studying PuddingPlease ? Studying seems very hard with kids… (I say that as a disorganised procrastinator…)

PuddingPlease

It’s a post-grad teaching subject, I want to do a Masters but my generalised undergrad degree was ages ago so I can’t enrol directly into that program. It’s really interesting and I’ve learned a lot but figuring out how to apply the theoretical knowledge in a practical way is harder than I would have expected.

NightHawk

DYNAR makes you perfect for the thread!