Nottingham Mini Meet.......LavamatJon @ Sherwood Forerst

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A few of us gathered at the home of Jon (LavamatJon) in Nottingham (Middle East of the UK - Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest terratory)to meet up & have a grand time, lots of appliance discussion, using the new Mieles , great food and scouring of old bookstores, curiosity shops, charity shops as well as terrorising John lewis to Plug & Play with the latest laundry washers...... a big thanks to Jon for hosting us all, its great to see the young ones taking up the mantle!!!

http://www.experiencenottinghamshire.com/

 

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Jons Place

Living area

 

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Beautiful Parks

straight outside the front door...

 

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Whos in Town

The gang - left to right, Jack (Dysonanimal), Rob (Aquarius1984), Paul (Matchboxpaul), Alistair (Vacbear58), Chris (Aquacycle) Richard (Buzzman1982) and the host himself Jon (LavamatJon), moi behind the camera and Austin (Ozzie908) in later pics...

 

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Cleaning to do...

standards to keep...

 

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Table Linens

Doesnt everyone use Starch...

 

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Into the Miele

with its dedicated programme...a great discussion ensued, cold water / warm water / spin/ press/ mangle or cold press?? in the end we let the Miele deciede

 

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Oh

too much work, time for tea and a squint through a load of old mags with adds that Rob honed in on at a local charity shop...

 

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Cake anyone

A slice of Alistairs Chocolate Amarretto Cake - Yum

 

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Purfect

with more tea!! (loose leaf, Nottingham Gold Blend), Alistair will provide cake recipes later - yay!!!

 

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Time to

terrorise the local town centre, headed straight for John Lewis to "Plug & Play" with the latest machines, at least 4 where set to profile spin - wonderful!!! "Any help required sir" no ta!!, just a playin!!!

 

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AEG Protex

lovely machines but I want the plinth its displayed in

 

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AEG Lavamat

Protex Series - the Programme MAX takes 3hr 50, Cottons Intensive, 95d heat, superRinse (5), Max spin 1600rpm.... you can zap it down to 1hr 30 with quick wash...

 

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Panasonic

sturdy machines

 

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very

robust control panel - solid

 

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Additives

are we missing any?? - nope, as if!!

 

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back home

via a few charity shops, vacs where snatched, cleaned and put through their paces, ROB, any pics?? the building in the background is the famous as the first Boots The Chemists shop...

 

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Oh - nearly forgot

disjwashers @ JL, this is Mieles version of a mug...Lol ( which makes sense with the modern dishwasher thread) havnt they seen the size of our pint tea mugs - but then again it is a Miele - "Mugs and Tupperware" arnt in their language!!!

 

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Plates

latest designer style, will have to do that for the next meet...a Miele full set!!

 

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Oh

lots of Bobloads, and the rinse aid needs replenishing!!

 

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Laundry

more to do, Ohh no - Persil- really!!!(coughs & collapses!!)

 

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Dinner time

more deserts vicar??

 

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Strawberries & Cream cake

yum....

 

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Strawberries & Cream cake

Alistairs recipe & making - delicious

 

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AND

Dutch Apple Cake, which is Louis`s (foraloysius) recipe, lots of pastry, apples & custard, again make by Alistair...

 

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Oh

Which to choose?? well that easy, a piece of each please!!!

 

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Then

a bobload to contend with - actually it did more than its fare share, about 4 loads a day at least - well one has standards to maintain, no swirling of tea mugs in a kichen sink

 

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and

more discussion of which tab works best - Chris wanted to use some of his Almat 1001 tabs but we said "No, No, No - We Gotta Get Our Dishes Clean, No, No , No..!!!
that Amy has a lot to answer for...

 

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Back to Weshers!!!

the starched table linen now has been used and abused for max filth - Oh Miele...!!!it had done so many loads over the last couple of days that it needed a "Perk Me Up" before its mega stain removal demo...

 

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Whites

Lights, Camera, Action..