I've been tagged!

Isn't this blogging community wonderful? I love to hop from link to link checking out people's generously shared crafts and lives. And reading the people who have been 'tagged' about some project or other. So I read all about Little Jenny Wrens fridge with interest, thinking what a strange thing to be tagged about - got to the bottom and discovered I had been too - well!

Here goes.

This is my fridge - it's pink and very beautiful and never has anything in it but fresh, properly wrapped, delicious food. No little bowls of unidentifiable mush with blue mould on top, no unwrapped cheese packets with hard inedible cheese fit only for the dog, nothing past its 'sell by date' - heaven forbid! Only one juice box open at a time - for who would open a new one when there is one open already?

Ahhh!
Hands up who believes me?
OK
it's true - I have the 'before' fridge. It was a wedding present from my lovely parents, so I can date it exactly - 21 years old. It has done good service and will continue to do so as long as the price tag on the pink Smeg is as it is.

Hang on - I'll go an photograph it.

This is a very blurry image - but you get the idea. It used to be covered in fridge magnets (or maggots as they are known - fridge maggots - this post isn't getting any better is it?) each one holding down a bit of the kids artwork or a newspaper clipping or whatever. But they all went as the kids grew and now I have a notepad that was a present from Catherine and the latest milk bill.

Am I brave enough to show you inside? No - It is too embarrassing. So before I go off and tidy out the fridge - I'll tag my sister in law Sheila  because she's family - no getting out of this one! and the lovely Wendy because I love reading what she has to say on all things - so I guess she'll make her fridge interesting too. And Islaygirl because she writes with humour even though life is tricky sometimes!
but don't do it girls if you'd rather not - and definitely don't do it if you have a pink Smeg.

Comments

[john]

wots all this miln?!? u got a new fridge and didnt tell me on the phone last night. bad crack. next time please tell me quickker so i dont have to find out like this. its so impersonal. i just... i cant look at u right now....

i will be home tommora mornin,have much fun

johnson

[martha]

Mother our fridge looks so dull! where did all the stuff go? I'll send you some more stuff- mabye you've taken all the good stuff to the shed..
Stuff falls off our fridge if you turn around in the kitchen- I took all the magnets off because I kept having to turn round.
I would like to see a brother or two- when are you coming? and ask O if he's checked out wikipedia..

[Veronica TM]

I don't have Smeg either! This post made me smile!

[Sheila]

Hi M,
I LOVE that fridge, but then again as I know you love colour, why am I not surprised. it makes my new fridge which is a boring white look pale by comparison.
bet it won't be long before the inside looks like mine....:)
Love Sheila

[littlejennywren]

So that's what a fridge looks like as the children get older. I actually used to let my children paint on the side of the fridge when they were preschoolers and then wash it off later. I think it is really interesting how something as utilitarian as a fridge can reflect the lifestages of our family. Perhaps someone could write a book about that or not.

[Alan]

I have a thing about fridges. They are important. They reflect your personality - and I don't just mean how they look externally but what they contain.

I have special expeditions. Special fridge only shopping trips. There is nothing nicer than filling your fridge so that each time you open it you are tempted by a whole assortment of things for any given time of the day. I have a chocolate shelf!

Most important of all - they should be tidy. Impossible when you live with MY wife but it's a worthy ambition, which I sometimes succeed with.

So I think we should have a photo of the inside of your new Smeg - after a fridge only shop AND before stuff starts to fester in a forgotten corner :-)

[Alan]

I have a thing about fridges. They are important. They reflect your personality - and I don't just mean how they look externally but what they contain.

I have special expeditions. Special fridge only shopping trips. There is nothing nicer than filling your fridge so that each time you open it you are tempted by a whole assortment of things for any given time of the day. I have a chocolate shelf!

Most important of all - they should be tidy. Impossible when you live with MY wife but it's a worthy ambition, which I sometimes succeed with.

So I think we should have a photo of the inside of your new Smeg - after a fridge only shop AND before stuff starts to fester in a forgotten corner :-)

[katie]

I think I have misled people into thinking that I have bought/am buying a new fridge - epsecially my son - who now thinks a new pink smeg is being delivered any day - I wish! and my brother - who has a whole shelf for chocolate! and special trips to fill it! deeply impressed - but the message is - the 21 year old fridge works fine and will have to do for another 21 years!
dream on.....

[Alan]

Read it again petal! You certainly give the impression you are going for a new fridge! Poor John - he's going to be devastated!!!! Sorry sis x

[islaygirl]

i'm so delighted to be tagged!! i am off to take a snap of my definitely-not-pink-Smeg fridge. it's very boring, but the inside has all kinds of blue-mold things.

[wendy]

Oh Katie you say the nicest things. I haven't been on line for a few days so am just catching up and have realised I have been tagged. Your fridge holds so many stories it could tell. I love the fridge maggots, names like that always stick.