Kenwood Chef mixers (which gave up the ghost only a couple of years ago, having put in a sterling half-century), County Durham’s first SodaStream, an early microwave…But my dad had his prejudices.
Although thousands of them left the production line every week, we never had a dishwasher (‘Why would you need one when you have me?’ he’d say, tea towel thrown jauntily over one shoulder, which wasn’t annoying at all).
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