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The Jetwashing Your Nuts Experience
Back in the heady days of 2006 I bought a pressure washer from B&Q. Only a cheap one mind. As soon as I bought one, Thames Water brought in a hosepipe ban, which meant I couldn't use it to clean the patio as I had intended.
So for nearly a year it has sat in its box prepped and ready for action. Like a coiled spring. A caged tiger. A sex-craved teen.
And yesterday I removed it from its box. Two trips to B&Q later I had the plastic bits required to attach it to a hose pipe. A further trip to the parents later I had a further hose to connect it to the tap in the games room.
And a few hours of wrist action later I had two nice shiny patios, muddy legs and a stiff neck. Really quite a rewarding experience on reflection. A shinier patio I have not seen. You could eat your dinner off it. Admittedly I'm not planning to, but at least the option is there.
So how does this relate to nuts, you may ask?
Well it doesn't. Not at all really. Good title though methinks.
But whilst on the subject of nuts, I am currently playing nut Russian roulette. A recent trip to the Cadbury's seconds shop resulted in two bags of 'Mis-Shapes' being brought home. In case you are unfamiliar Mis-Shapes are bags of Cadbury's chocolates that went wrong in the factory. Only very minor superficial wrong, rather than death-inducing wrong, but wrong none-the-less.
So you get a bag of different chocolate shapes, unwrapped, with no indication of what they are. As you can imagine, for someone with a mild nut allergy this isn't ideal, as some appear to contain hazelnuts.
By a process of elimination I managed to work out which shapes I thought had the nuts in. But, in their extreme craftiness, Cadbury's slipped a few hazelnuts into the non-nut ones as well, just to piss me off. So every now and then the solid chocolatey goodness is invaded by a large white thing hiding in the middle.
If chocolate wasn't so damn tasty, this would be a thankless task, I must surmise....