Thank god I live the civilised world.
I was too tired to cook today, and as it happens to tired to eat out. So I decided to pay a visit to one of those generic burger restaurants that always occur in pairs. Whilst I was there a man who looked like the sort of person who would win "Mr Most likely to be gunned down in front of his Gym Reading 2003" entered the establishment with his moll. In what I can only take as an attempt to impress her he sidled up to what I assume he thought was the Maître D. (actually he's a Cantonese student earning money by putting himself through BK U.) He, that's Mr Most likely..., stated that he wished to buy the art from the walls. (Actually the art wasn't too offensive, badly drawn part collages of southern Californian art deco buildings)
I left. Actually I wanted to try my latest purchase. I've been making ice with cold water and a plastic tray. Apparently this is all wrong. Firstly trapezoidal ice is so last fortnight What I need is perfect cubes, cylinders and balls. But wait these ice moulds are made of silicone rubber and can withstand 200 C - why? because if you make ice with cold water you get bubbles in it and apparently this shows that a) I don't care about my guests, or b) I didn't buy designer Waitrose slow melting ice. But with silicone rubber ice moulds not only can you have perfect square edges you can also put - get this - boiling water in your freezer.
Never mind that my pull-over cost more than last year's entire heating bill, and that I've just used 150kJ of power to heat up and then cool down some water.