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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2006-12-29 05:23 pm
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Cool stuff

I just listened to half of the Doctor Who: Colditz audio before dozing off for an involuntary afternoon nap. Not just Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, but David Tennant (!) doing a pretty good German accent as Feldwebel Kurtz. Hee!

Our new fridge is here. It has some cool (ha!) features like separate humidity settings for the fruit and vege compartments (all right, our old one was 14 years old) and it has a Sabbath setting! When that's turned on, the light and door alarms won't work and opening the door won't affect the compressor or fans. It's nice to know that appliances can have a day off. Good old Fisher & Paykel; we always buy their white ware, and their head office was one of the best places I ever worked for too. Their DishDrawer sells extremely well to orthodox households as far away as the US because you get two dishwasher drawers: one for fleishig and one for milchig. Students and lazy buggers of my acquaintance like it too because they just move their dishes from one to the other.

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[identity profile] zoefruitcake.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
wow, that's really clever stuff

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
Fisher & Paykel are a really innovative company; I still have a lot of shares in them I bought when I worked there which pay good dividends. I used to get appliances for less than half price from them too, and still could get a good discount if I bought one through a friend there, but you can't muck about when your fridge isn't working properly and it's summer.

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Our washing machine repairman actually told us, when we do go looking for a new one, to go for Fisher & Paykel.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
I've been very happy with all of mine. The little drinks fridge in the laundry is ancient and still going strong.

[identity profile] pinkdormouse.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously cool appliances there.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I have their SmartDrive washing machine (http://usa.fisherpaykel.com/global/laundry-products/clothes-washers/clothes-washer.cfm?productUid=8C4273EB-94C9-5AFE-584EC34AFBF281A0) as well (brilliant design), though for some reason the links for appliances take me to US sites (F&P manufactures and sells there) and they just use the model number. I'd guess that buyers would be put off if they ended up at a NZ site; the software company I used to work for suffered from that sort of parochialism when trying to get overseas sales.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Found how to get to the NZ appliance pages: this is the machine we have (http://www.fp.co.nz/global/laundry-products/clothes-washers/clothes-washer.cfm?productUid=CC57CF30-98A3-56AA-A8AA88326580A975).

This is their latest one (http://www.fp.co.nz/global/laundry-products/clothes-washers/clothes-washer.cfm?productUid=CC63599A-DA7B-7BFC-E06059F558B9370C), which I saw at the showroom. Even smarter than ours, but it has a curved top and I keep a sheepskin on ours for the cats to keep their muddy paws off it; they'd slide off!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's their UK site (http://www.fisherpaykel.co.uk/) if you're interested. :-)

[identity profile] pinkdormouse.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[identity profile] imhilien.livejournal.com 2006-12-30 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
It looks like a good fridge. :-)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2006-12-30 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
I like it!

I had no idea how bad the other one's freezer was getting till I put some ice cream in it. :-(
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