Partly in response to Jeanne’s pic of yesterday and partly because today’s story is both excitingly and depressingly about refrigeration!

Because of Jeanne, I was thinking about old records (including ‘girl’s talk) and how exciting and inspirational they are. I thought about music’s power to move, get happy (a la EC), make melancholy, enhance desire and evoke passion.

I have always thought that the most passionate, erotic album of all time is ‘A kiss in the dreamhouse’ by Souxsie and theBanshees. This album was written and recorded at the height of the passion of Siouxsie Soux and Budgie and the intensity of their relationship has spilled all over this recording. They were on something of a roll at the time with the gloriously sensual ‘Wild Thing’ EP with that wonderful, erotic photography on the cover. I’ve never been a girl who is impressed by muscle but Budgie’s drummer arms, well…..

Anyway, I was thinking about the release of that album……it has ‘Obsession’ on it as well as the sublime ‘Melt’. How sexy are those songs. I had to put on the album while I took this photo so I could hear them again and David remarked ‘This album may have been wonderful at the time but it sounds a bit dirgy to me now’. I suspect it’ll be one of those records, like his Pink Floyd that we’ll never agree about!!

Now, after listening again, I think I’d revise my ‘most passionate song ever’ choice to ‘Because the night’ by Patti Smith. That’s just the most divine song ever. Melt comes close behind still though.

The refrigeration question? Ah, that’s because everything that should be in the fridge freezer is all over the work surfaces in the kitchen and the fridge freezer with no handles and no shelves in the fridge is finally going to the fridge freezer heaven in the sky tomorrow and the new Bosch is being delivered. It’s the final bit of kit for the new kitchen.

So we are back plunged into chaos and disorder with our possessions displaced again, but at least we know it’s for the final hurdle.

The Bosch and me have already fallen out. I bought it online and neither Bosch’s site nor the place where I bought it mentioned the fact that it needs a cold water supply. Why on earth does a fridge freezer need a cold water supply? Because it’s an ‘American style’ fridge freezer, you know the sort of thing….50 years ago it would have been considered big enough to house a family of four, it has a drinks dispenser and ice cube maker in the door. I expected these things to be fed from a water tank that you fill up from the tap but no, it needs its own supply. Well if Bosch or anyone else thinks the kitchen is coming out again to route a cold water feed to the new fridge freezer, just about as far away from any water as it’s possible to be in the kitchen, they’ve got another think coming. We’ll just have to run the thing without its water dispenser and ice cube maker.

Mind you, I have always had a thing about the fire of passion and ice……..

…..so melt, my lover melt, she said, melt my lover melt…..