Thursday 27 May 2010

There is life after death!

Long term readers may remember the tear-stained post I wrote when my beloved 1970s orange-and-chocolate-brown Kenwood Chef died in the line of duty. That was in October 2008. Grays of George Street, that venerable Edinburgh institution is no more and I didn't know of anywhere else I could go for help with a disabled Chef. Despite this, I kept his body in the garage. I just couldn't bring myself to throw Kenwood away.

This morning however, I came downstairs to a (tuneless) chorus of Happy Birthday from Husband and Boys and look what was waiting for me!

They pimped my Chef! Kenwood had been smuggled out of the house (apparently I actually helped with this operation in the mistaken belief that Husband was taking an amplifier into his office. If you knew Husband, you would completely understand why I accepted this ruse without question) and then sent off to the Hospital for Geriatric Kenwood Chefs where they gave him a brand spanking new motor, a groovy new control knob, new rubber feet and all sorts of wonderful new attachments (not the sausage stuffing one though - I may have to wait until Christmas before I get that). He lives! He even has a pulse (function)!

Isn't he lovely? I suddenly feel the urge to make bread. Or drink tea and eat chocolate while admiring him. One or the other.

9 comments:

  1. My goodness, what a great gift for you!

    Happy birthday!!!

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  2. Wow! Bionic Chef! I think it is wonderful that Kenwood will do that for a machine of his vintage. He now has the same control knob as my 2006 one!

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  3. What a great Birthday gift!
    And a very Happy Birthday being sent from New Hampshire to you!!!

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  4. Aw! That's so lovely! Hope you had a great day. xxx

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  5. Well indeed that's lovely and also very interesting, since my 1973 Kenwood Chef occasionally makes a grinding noise which I pretend not to hear. I may need to find out details! I too once got it serviced at Gray's (sob).

    Yours is a bit... orange... if you don't mind me pointing it out. Mine, though presumably older since I'm considerably older than you, is a discreet white with navy trim. Just saying.

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  6. And Happy Birthday, by the way!

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  7. I'm gobsmacked that there's actually a place that repairs and upgrades appliances over yonder. I thought they went the way of the dodo decades ago. How exciting for you.

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  8. Unexpected gifts are the best! I've had one or two through my sixty-one years on earth and somehow they're more special because of it. It certainly looks as if it will make life for you and yours easier and tasty! I suppose, for me, the most joyful gift of recent is having a marketing firm to publish my first work, at Year's End 2010, in Mommy's Writings. Happy Cooking and Baking! Its color is wonderful too!

    Suzanne McMillen-Fallon, Published Author
    www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Mommy, would you like a sandwich?

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  9. Bloody hell! Sorry for the profanity an' all, but that's the only reaction I can muster on seeing this ... this ... ORANGE thing! Er ... crumbs. That's the orangiest kitchen implement I've ever seen. Forgive me, but I'm quite happy about that :-0

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