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> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:24:13 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:02:11 -0400, S Viemeister
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>On 8/10/2013 7:44 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>>> It sounds odd to me! Electric kettles have been ubiquitous here for
>>>>> decades. It sounds very strange to hear them talked about as
>>>>> something
>>>>> unusual. We do have a gas kettle but it is only used if something
>>>>> happens to the electricity
>>>>>
>>>>Out power was out for nearly a week last year, so I dug out my ancient
>>>>non-electric kettle. It hadn't been used in years - what I didn't know,
>>>>was that it had been oxidising, and when I put it on the hob, a teensy
>>>>pinhole leak put out the gas...fortunately I noticed before anything
>>>>dreadful could happen.
>>>>
>>>>We now have a new kettle for emergency use.
>>>
>>> I have a small propane burner for power out times, ironically when
>>> Hurricane Juan visited and I lived out of town and lost power for ten
>>> days I had to part with it to a couple along the way with new born
>>> infant and no way to heat bottles. IMO that was a great case for
>>> breast feeding but I held my tongue
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>> I never needed to hear a case! To me it was the natural, most
>>nourishing
>>and safest way
>>
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> Me too, I bf all three, the price greatly appealed to my Scottish
> blood

Guid lassie, so did I mine and my daughter hers too)

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