Zeal J202W Duck Toast Tongs, White

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Hel-LO, you say. You’ve got a phone. Have you not found the torch feature on yours? To which I reply: Hel-LO! Have you tried holding your iPhone in your mouth, face out, so that the torch points forward. Go on, try. You can’t, right? Edge in first, like a biscuit, no problem, if you want to uplight your nose, or downlight your chest. But if you want the light shining forwards (which, let’s face it, is where you’re most likely to want it), then you have to hold it in your hand. Meaning you only have one hand left to do whatever it is you want to do. I use mine for reading – while camping, or at home if someone else wants the lights off. I use it as an extra bike light. If I had a dog I’d walk the dog with it – I know people who do. I take it to festivals, mainly as a fashion accessory, to be honest, a bit of glow-worm/lighthouse chic, while remaining free to throw some shapes, but also for tent assemblage, or just tent-locating. That’s it. You don’t have to think about it all – meaning you can get entirely distracted by the 17 other things that demand your attention, like a baby crawling up your leg or mopping up an inevitable spillage, without compromising your eggs. When it beeps, breakfast is ready and sanity is preserved – for now. In the meantime, I’m wondering what to do with this pair of sad, neglected crampons. Aerate the lawn maybe? Actually that’s not a bad idea … This simple little dispenser is now clipped on my dog lead, so when he’s out, the poo bags are too … as long as I remember to refill it, obviously.

Simply pierce the egg and add the appropriate amount of cold water according to the number of eggs and consistency that you require (as directed by the measuring cup) and switch it on. I’ve now branched out into Daubenton’s kale, a much smaller perennial with an even better, slightly nutty taste, and the 1.5m-high Purple Tree collard cross called ‘Keeper’. Once you’ve got a few plants, you can propagate more from cuttings. Then all your friends can turn over a new leaf, too. I am a person who always loses things. Well, misplaces things: the object I’ve lost always turns up, usually 30 minutes after I have finally, grudgingly bought a replacement at annoying expense. I have wasted a cumulative 400 hours of my life searching for things before I leave the house, subjecting my family to increasingly enraged self-talk: “Where’s your bag? What did you do with it? Why are you like this?”.A big green plant changed my life. The Taunton Deane perennial kale wasn’t big when I bought it (from Incredible Vegetables, a tiny business specialising in unusual perennials which happens to share an allotment with my dad), but it rapidly grew, fell over, and kept growing. Handheld vacuum When the job is small, you need not risk getting a slipped disc by lugging Henry Hoover around the house: handheld vacuums are ideal for targeting emergency incidents (smashed glass), post-DIY clear ups, crumb-trails, or those mysterious balls of dust that appear in every corner of the house moments before guests arrive. If you have a child, consider it your new daily accessory. I laughed when my then boyfriend bought an egg-boiling machine when we moved in together. Who needs help boiling an egg? Well, me as it happens. Because two kids later (reader, I married him, namely for his egg-boiling machine) and living in constant fear of toddler meltdowns triggered by their boiled eggs being the wrong consistency, it is the most-used item in our kitchen. It is the precursor to the much-hyped egg cooker that recently went viral, but being ancient, ours can only do boiled eggs (not scrambled, poached or omelette-style like the latest Gen Z versions). I don’t do so much climbing these days, through changing circumstances (shrinking cojones mainly), but I use my head torch more than ever. Changed my life? That may be pushing it, but it has certainly made it better, and more visible. OK, so perennial kale leaves don’t taste so succulent all year round (they are nicest in winter and early spring), but they seem impervious to cabbage white butterflies. Pigeons, it seems, are partial to kale, but my simple solution to pigeon-munching is to fill the vegetable patch with more perennial kales than the birds can eat.

When I first got my kitten, I knew it would be many months until I could introduce her to the garden, and that meanwhile, she’d be using a litter tray. But I had no idea that a) many methods of cat-mess disposal are environmentally destructive, and b) a kitten is a furry pooping machine. A head torch is for outdoorsy, adventurous kinds of activities, you think? True, I did get mine – or my first, there has been a series – for something like that. I used to do a bit of climbing, the sort that sometimes involved starting before dawn, or finishing after sundown, or just being out and about at night.