Boo-hoo, my favorite aluminum pot-belly saucepan is finally declared beyond the capability of ShonXrepair inc. When we found it in a Gt Boston yard-sale 45 years ago, it had already done a generation of service for an American family. Probably cast and assembled ~1950 at the height of Boomer material space-age prosperity. I guess the base was originally flat, so it would work efficiently on a 1950 vintage General Electric stove. Since then the saucepan's bottom has acquired a convex sag; but then so has mine. Worked fine with our gas hob.
In recent years, I Sugru'd up a crack in the wooden handle, first in blue and then green but now the internal bolt [steel] has rusted out - and I can't get the anti-grav hover mechanism to kick in. My old partner will have to join me in retirement. Eeee, they don't make 'em like they used to.
In other news, Dau.I the Book and Dau.II the Cook came down for Christmas. I was tasked to source a nice piece of organic bacon collar for the carnivorous half of the family. Obvs I went to Rathgarogue Organic Pork [whc Prev for eggs]. Cookie baked that on Christmas Eve to give oven-room for a chicken the following day. VegHalf had musharooms Wellington. A colourful variety of vegetable sides filled the corners. After dinner we sacked out to watch The Birdcage [1996] an American remake of the wonderful La Cage au Folles [1978] which we saw in a multiplex in Albany NY in Oct 1980. We were much younger then than our girls are now. Counting our blessings - it's been a crap Christmas for too many people across the county, the country and the world.
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