Who amongst us can honestly say that we haven't dreamed of having a remote control kettle? Well PG and mobile phone network Orange have combined their know how to create a kettle that you can set boiling by sending it a text. If Tomorrows World was still on the telly they would have had kittens over this.

Cracking good cuppa contraptions

And whilst they were at it they came up with the Gromit shaped Thermo Nose mug, and the Brewometer tea strength aid. You can find out all about these tea making boons and how to get hold of them on our Cuppa Contraptions page.

Winner

Other innovations include its categorisation as Humour, which is nice and should stop it turning up in odd places such as the travel books, as the hardback has been known to do. Also the tricky to read for some, orange on orange and orange on grey sections are now easy peasy orange on white. To find out more then visit our book page.

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Look at the lovely cover

It seemed too good an opportunity to miss not to make 36 jam tarts, which will no doubt come in handy over the next few days. We also have our eyes on some wild plum trees which should be ready for a raid in about 2 weeks time.

Perhaps you too have become obsessed by Jam recently or just throught about it for a bit. If so drop us a line, we already have an icon!

Nicey made some tarts all on a summers day
the younger members of staff ate the tarts
which then had to be put away
in a tin actually