Oh, a pox on these people! Stanley are a very famous, and quite rightly so, make of thermos flasks. Developed in the USA in 1913, they come in all shapes and sizes. She has several friends who have them and although her wonderful Tiger thermos is wonderful, it is not a thermos for transporting hot coffee, it is for food.
You can imagine her excitement when she found a Stanley thermos in the shop that she volunteers in. A little PINK Stanley thermos, who knew that such a little charmer existed? So yesterday morning, at some evil hour when I still had Beaky tucked between my shoulder blades and was ignoring her call of "Wake up", she poured boiling water into Miss Pinky to get her hot before she poured in delicious freshly made proper coffee.
I got up and blinked in shock at the sight of the time showing on the clock, it wasn't even 07.30am! She ate eggs and avocado, I ate egg and hummus, she got dressed and collected her basket, her bus pass and put me, with new food and fresh water, into the bedroom and off she went, to go wherever mothers go on Sunday at 07.50am!
At 11.00am, she thought, it's time for coffee and poured it into the thick ceramic mug she had taken. Only to find the coffee was stone cold, you can imagine the disappointment, for it was a bitterly cold and foggy day and she had made it using her most precious coffee from the Algerian Coffee Stores.
She turned the thermos upside down to see if it was a fake but no, what she found was 'Made in China'! What! Made in China, since when? When she came home, she went on line and found out that a company called PMI had bought the company and name and they've moved the manufacturing of these thermos to China.
Oh, think of a suitably rude word, what a pity! But thank goodness she has a trick up her sleeve, for she has that much treasured 'Tiger' food thermos, it comes with three containers and, by golly, it does the job of keeping the food HOT! She used it to take beef stew and mushroom soup to the troops at Borough and they were piping hot!
So useless Pinky by Stanley Made in China will be kept for transporting cold water to the allotment and she will be going online in the New Year to purchase a thermal flask by Tiger Made in Japan..
GeeGee Parrot.
December 19th, 2016.
You can imagine her excitement when she found a Stanley thermos in the shop that she volunteers in. A little PINK Stanley thermos, who knew that such a little charmer existed? So yesterday morning, at some evil hour when I still had Beaky tucked between my shoulder blades and was ignoring her call of "Wake up", she poured boiling water into Miss Pinky to get her hot before she poured in delicious freshly made proper coffee.
I got up and blinked in shock at the sight of the time showing on the clock, it wasn't even 07.30am! She ate eggs and avocado, I ate egg and hummus, she got dressed and collected her basket, her bus pass and put me, with new food and fresh water, into the bedroom and off she went, to go wherever mothers go on Sunday at 07.50am!
At 11.00am, she thought, it's time for coffee and poured it into the thick ceramic mug she had taken. Only to find the coffee was stone cold, you can imagine the disappointment, for it was a bitterly cold and foggy day and she had made it using her most precious coffee from the Algerian Coffee Stores.
She turned the thermos upside down to see if it was a fake but no, what she found was 'Made in China'! What! Made in China, since when? When she came home, she went on line and found out that a company called PMI had bought the company and name and they've moved the manufacturing of these thermos to China.
Oh, think of a suitably rude word, what a pity! But thank goodness she has a trick up her sleeve, for she has that much treasured 'Tiger' food thermos, it comes with three containers and, by golly, it does the job of keeping the food HOT! She used it to take beef stew and mushroom soup to the troops at Borough and they were piping hot!
So useless Pinky by Stanley Made in China will be kept for transporting cold water to the allotment and she will be going online in the New Year to purchase a thermal flask by Tiger Made in Japan..
GeeGee Parrot.
December 19th, 2016.
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