We have two new guests in the house, they arrived two nights ago. I haven’t met them yet but I did get a brief glimpse of them this morning. I got up at 6.30am and wandered into the kitchen to make me brekky, where was the kettle?…..someone has pinched the kettle. Now this is not the first time that this has happened, the first time was 6 months ago but it was not such a big problem because we had a spare kettle and now we only have one. I need coffee in the morning or I just don’t function that well and so there was no other option than to knock on the door and wake up the guests at 6.30 am to get the kettle. After a few minutes they began to stir and were not very happy, but they understood what I wanted and I got the kettle back. I don’t think they will do it a second time………

Now they are either stupid or selfish and I’m not sure which trait it is at this stage. I would never think of removing the kettle from the kitchen, especially when there are other folk in the house. The Chinese certainly think on a different wavelength at times……….