Wanted: Plastic, lidded, containers from Indian Takeaways

Thu 26 Aug 2021, 20:47

On having a look on the upper shelf of the kitchen for those round, lidded, houmous pots I thought were there, they weren't. Spoke too soon! Actually don't have many of them at all, and most of those missing lids, defeating the purpose. And with Number One Daughter moving out this week to her first (non-Uni digs) place with a friend, the consumption rate of said pots will decrease markedly!

 These little, low height, pots make ideal little stacking pots for the littler things than the larger rectangular take-away flat lidded food containers.

So I'll be in touch with you both re delivery, or pick-up, arrangements.

And thanks again. I think I'm going to need quite a few of different sizes to populate shelves with, instead of scruffy, tangle heaps, constantly becoming besmirched by the really irritating (and horrid to touch) dust that just seems to keep on coming no matter how many times a Dyson vacuum cleaner is wielded. 

Never known anywhere but our house here in Charlbury that seems to be so particularly dust accumulating - even having lived 350 feet up a sheer cliff on an escarpment, directly overlooking the 7 miles of steel-mills below in Hamilton, in the 1950s and '60s. Before manly men in t'mills being bothered by any nancy-boy whinging about air pollution - gases or particulates... (And my old man was an ingot-estimator at Stelco, literally at the bottom of the cliff below our street, which terminated at the edge. 90% of the men on our street worked in Stelco or Dominion - the road was actually divided up: Stelco men on the east side of the lateral road, Dominion in the smaller older houses on the other. For some reason Stelco men (and it was all men) were better paid historically. Perhaps something to do with doing specialist steels, my old man being one of those judging the "melt" and adjusting the additives. Anyway, for the womenfolk (and it was all women) washing day was a moveable thing depending on wind direction. If you got it wrong and the prevailing sou'westerly shifted, your whites would go piebald with disturbing rapidity. And it wasn't just grey, or black splodges. Sometimes you could get blue or purple as well as the more common iron oxide.

And no-one seemed to pay any heed until after the publication year of Silent Spring...