Hot Monkeys.

While we were in Canada my mother bought me some pot holders (same idea as oven mitts) from a store called Kitchen Stuff Plus. I tend to be very sensitive to heat and we only had one oven glove, so it was a thoughtful gift. Check them out:



Yes, the top one is a hippo and a the other one is a monkey!
And yes, they come in many other animals & colours.


In other news, we finally broke down and bought a space heater for our apartment. When we returned to Ireland from our trip to Canada we arrived in the middle of a massive cold spell the likes of which Ireland had not seen in years. Our heater simply could not manage under the all that pressure, so I was left shivering most of the time. When we decided to buy an extra heater all the stores were sold out of the good ones, so I suffered a bit longer while Jon went away for a few weeks for work. So, long story short...it has taken ages, but we finally got a small efficient space heater. We were a bit taken aback by how much it glows:



A bit scary, no?