One month in

One month in, and we finally have enough food in the house that we can't eat it all in a single meal. Also, we have a bed of our very own:



It's much, much higher than it looks. After sleeping on the floor for a couple of weeks, it felt quite odd to be lying so close to the ceiling.

To celebrate the bed, we tried Jiffy Pop.


We're starting to get a bit of a social life - so far (apart from Knit Nights) it consists of transporting dessert across town in the bike trailer. People thought it must be a kid in there ("Trifle? That's an odd thing to call a kid, but I 'spose it makes sense...."). We'd be miserable beggars to put a kid in that thing anyway - there are no windows or place for a seat. During the evening we had great fun explaining that "Kiwi" is not in fact a derogatory term (unlike "Beaner" or "Coconut"), and that we are not actually calling ourselves hairy fruit.

In the world of shopping, things just get stranger and more perverse. I mean, if this Jolly Green Giant guy is a plant, then what are these?




Possibly they're related to this tool (which looks like it should be put to use in ram fitness testing)




And this is just wrong. Do people really think about what they're calling their products?




And for the children.... Here's a tasty treat that is actually designed to look like one of our favourite childhood choking hazards: