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29th-Jan-2007 08:10 pm - Oooh look what I got!
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(Originally posted on MySpace)
Time for some shameless showing off here!
Yesterday we went to visit my aunt who had invited us for a family tea & tapas party. Good news all by itself as she has excellent taste in food. A good time was had by all.
Just before we left, she asked me if I'd like something really silly. Of course I said yes. Silly is good.
And then she presented me with something I'd been secretly desiring for years: her Goblin Teasmade!


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Isn't it gorgeous?
Go on, say yes. You know you want to!
But what is it? It's an icon of Britishness: a teawaker.
It's an alarm clock that brews tea and then wakes you up when it's done. Lovely, innit?
The kettle and the tea pot are on a little scale, and when the water is transferred from the kettle to the tea pot the scale is tipped, and that switches off the heat and makes the buzzer sound.

This one is from the fifties or early sixties, it comes with its own tray in bakelite. It's supposed to be in working order, too. I can't wait to give it a really nice spot in the living room and try it.

It'll have to be the living room and not the bedroom, though. The thing is said to be rather noisy. I've read the sound of the water boiling and being forced through the tube into the tea pot will always wake you up before the buzzer does.
Who cares? I was going to show it off anyway.

Here's another piccie of the model I have:

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You may all start envying me now.
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