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Sunbeam in the UK and Ireland tends to be associated with the entirely unrelated Sunbeam Motor Company, which disappeared in the 1930s, but the trademark was used on cars from the Rotes Group and its successors right into the 1970s. I think Jarden Corporation used the US brand here for some...

There still are some astronomical charges in the telecommunications industry. When you look at the price of data roaming when you go out side your free-to-roam areas i.e. in the US or in the EU for me, the costs suddenly go from so cheap you don't need to think give it a second thought  to ...

There’s something be said for bringing back the suffix “-orama” and possibly “-matic” and of course “deluxe”

I wonder if it’s the same product ? Una or Úna is a female first name here. So it would be a bit like having a washing powder called Lucy or Steve or something.

A lot of encapsulation in liquids stopped when they discovered the damage and that plastic micro-beads were doing. They pass straight through almost sewage treatment and get ingested by aquatic life that mistakes them for food like eggs and planktons and it causes serious problems / death. As...

Hmm.. OK. Think I knocked thread OT. Sorry. Night. Can't delete post now. Perhaps one of the moderators could.

I'll have a look. Is that stuff any good?

I’m not old enough to remember the Julia Child’s reign as TV chef, but I have seen plenty of her shows on TV in modern times. Hands on, no nonsense approach to cooking is how it should be done and she had a great TV presence, without any need for over polished production. It’s an interesting...

I’m just wondering though, what would have been timing? I could sort of understand maybe crockpots or something simple like that, maybe old fashioned drip coffee makers could have been switched on and would have activated when the power came on? I suppose though you get plenty of gimmicky...

That control panel looks interesting. Was it useful or just one of those kitchen gimmicks of the era? Non-grounded, handheld, metal kitchen appliances too!

That being said, we had a lot of excited and optimistic unofficial forecasts for 26°C (78.8°F) today. Met Eireann, the Irish meteorological service was being much less excited and they were right. It’s 16°C (60°F) barely hitting 20°C in spots, 93% humidity and cloudy ☁️ Everywhere else in...

55°F Drops to quite close to fridge temp in winter but it never gets warm.

Having a browse around, not as many colour detergents in powder form as there used to be. I hadn’t been shopping for them in quite a while. They still exist but two supermarkets I was in didn’t have any on the shelves, but loads of pods, pods and more pods and liquids.

Yeah, major appliances require a lot of floor space and are hard to move and need a lot of serious logistics for warehousing and delivery. Margins are also fairly tight on most of them, which is why they’re increasingly going to big box specialist retailers and online. They’re not that...

Simple air circulation, so it can dissipate heat and don’t place it in an area where it is likely to be exposed to direct heat from the sun.

It’s a shame to see these stores go. We lost a few in recent years too. Debenhams a UK chain, which had bought into the irish market in 2006, taking over a Roches Stores collapsed during the pandemic and took out a whole load of our most iconic big old Main Street department stores, some of...

Well, my 2017 machine regularly has pools of detergent flooding the dispenser area, which is why I’ve given up using the feature. It seems to be inconsistencies in the bottles’ seals rather than the machine. One is fine, the next leaks. Got fed up cleaning it out and gave up. Back to powder and...

It was pretty mean of them to not make the refillable tank cartridges available in the US. I wonder was the logic just creation of a consumables market, or if they just were unprepared to unclog lines due to sparse repair crews? There’s a pair of peristaltic pumps (a tube with a roller) which...

Coffee creamers never really took off here - might have been available. Historically though we were never a coffee drinking country. There's a vast array of modern coffee houses serving absolutely everything you can think of, but tea is still the default drink at home and we still get consume a...

I suspect that use didn't quite make it past 1968...