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I think I've bought most kitchen gadgets. I've got a toastie thing that looks like a handbag (it seemed like a good idea at the time); pie makers (cooks in 12 minutes); a halogen oven (the latest of many and this one has lasted the longest) ; air fryer; 5 minute copper chef that is really useful, a spiralizer that I used when I had a thing for courgetti; a mincer/shredder thing like your mum used to have that sticks to the work surface. I've just bought a crimpit that crimps wraps (I don't think I've ever made a wrap of any sort at any time in my life and haven't used it yet) and a sausage roll maker that I've not looked at as yet
I made the mistake of assuming that playing scrabble was a pleasant way to pass an evening until I played against two seriously competitive strategic players. I was happy just getting the words on the board without comprehending quite what criminal act I'd committed gifting points to the player who was following with the other player (my ex) practically blowing a gasket as games slipped away from him due to my ineptitude. I also wasn't reading the room too fast as I'd possibly had a vodka or two so was oblivious to the tension. I was also bankrupted possibly within a couple of laps of the board by said ex at Monopoly - I'd never seen anyone so deadly clinical - I haven't played it, or scrabble, since. A seriously bad loser though as when I beat him at Trivial Pursuit he accused me of memorising all the answers on the cards - and he was serious.
Trying to remember as there have been books that have made me laugh out loud but I don't think any of them are recent reads. Tom Sharpe - I read those a long time ago. The Flashman series of course and that was a long time ago as well. Maybe, from memory, the most recent was The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared.