:: The Wendy House ::

weighted fridge doors

:: Wendy :: — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:01:28 +0000

Mumzie: GWENDOLYN! Remember to shut the fridge door after you’ve used the milk

Wendy: ………

In the US my fridge door was weighted, it fell shut automatically. Slightly irritating when making a cup of tea at a leisurely pace. Here in the UK my fridge door is not weighted. If I forget to shut it the fridge tries to cool the whole kitchen.

Memories of mumzies wise words shiver around the room…

the whole gubbins

:: Wendy :: — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:01:44 +0000

while discussing some extremely impressive specialist stuff:

specialist 1: does it do the whole gubbins?

specialist 2: yea

Wendy thinks: Oh! I need one of those, haven’t had my whole gubbins done for years.

alan’s tips

:: Wendy :: — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:01:20 +0000

Words of wisdom from my outrageously expensive and handsome, former professional-brick-layer, young product-dispensing hairdresser are temporarily on hold while I investigate cheaper less product-pushing alternatives. This tip is bought to you courtesy of Lucia from the Philippines in her own local family business salon:

keep your hair short in the winter

Before I could consider the merits of this tip, Lucia had launched her scissors into the remnants of my mop which is now, indeed, short for the winter.

tubes and spots

:: Wendy :: — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:01:01 +0000

The staff at Jacksons are solution builders. When something doesn’t work they fix it, no unnecessary fuss.

For example, this light switch set in the Ladies underwear changing rooms controls 8 different lights in the main store. The lights cannot be seen from the switch location. Which lights are controlled by which switches? You would need 2 people to find-out by a try it and see method. Would you be able to remember from one day to the next which switch controls which lights?

The staff at Jacksons don’t have to learn or remember which light is controlled by which switch because they’ve cunningly labelled the switches! Now, which lights are ’spot 3.4′?

wonkey sounds like wrong key

:: Wendy :: — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:01:21 +0000

IT support: hello, this is [name] in Salt Lake city (US Accent)

Wendy: Oh! I hope its sunny in Salt Lake city

IT Support: it’s 4am in the morning

Wendy: Ah, gosh, well, not sunny then, I’ve got this problem…

[problem fixing conversation and Wendy starts falling asleep then wakes up when]

IT Support: Wonkey, I’m even talking British now, wonkey