Ha! You’ll Never Find Me…..

Favourite pic of the week? No contest; it’s this genius one of the giraffe who seems to think he is cunningly concealed behind the tree. It makes me smile every time I look at it. In my anthropomorphic imagination, this is a young giraffe and I can just see its mother covering her eyes and going, “Seriously, NO!” Excellent pic.

Favourite ridiculous thing I read about (if you exclude ALL political commentary 🙂 ) is the new Miele range cooker which has just been launched. See the picture below. This cooker is £17,000. No, that is not a typo. What the helling hell? Even if I had 300 million quid, I would never spend that much money on a cooker. You can buy an entire top-notch kitchen for that kind of money, and still be able to afford a takeaway. Pure craziness in a world where some people are literally starving. And don’t even get me started on Sub-Zero fridges. My fave bit was the dopey blurb in the magazine I was reading which assured us that we could produce restaurant-quality meals on the wonder-machine. Er, no. The ability to produce restaurant-quality food is a God-given talent/skill. If you have it, you could cook over a fire made from twigs and the food would be great. If you don’t, a 17K hunk of metal would make no difference whatsoever. When I become extremely rich (which is guaranteed, thank you very much!), if I ever make this type of insane purchase, please feel free to slap me around a few times until I come to my senses. Addendum: insane purchases cannot by definition include cars, unless it’s a rubbish electric car in which case feel free to have me sectioned. That’s obvious to anyone who isn’t clueless 🙂

Back in the real world, I would like to introduce you to the work of the talented Stewart Hearn. I love glass; its manufacture always seems magical to me. Just a bit of silicon that can be altered to make rainbows. Terrific. Y’all have a lovely week. Pip pip.