Hachi
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2012
- Messages
- 2,373
- Reaction score
- 619
- Location
- Wiltshire
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- Damn! A lot more than I ever thought I'd have
Thought I'd "tidy up" some bits of 1st melt comb wax I have lying about the place [first mistake] put the lot in a Sainsburys nylon veg bag and dropped it into the pan with an inch of water in the bottom on her Majesties S/S Gas hob. A quick glance in the pan and I thought to myself, perhaps it needs a little more water! [second].
Being male and convinced I can multi task with the best of them, I decided to package up a jar of honey for a buddy to be posted on that I'd promised to do whilst the hob worked its magic. All wrapped up, I despatched swmbo off to the post office with said package who instructed me to "keep an eye on that pan whilst I'm gone"!!
Still multitasking thinking "what is all the fuss about??" a period of time passed before my eyes widened like Marty Feldmans' and a sharp intake of breath got me moving rapidly to the kitchen. The whole tincture was bubbling away and spitting round the lid covering the prized hob and surrounding work surfaces in a substantial covering of exceedingly small wax dots coupled with a puddle of wax forming to the side of the fifth ring.
Remembering those immortal words of Clint Eastwood from one of his movies, improvise, adapt, overcome!! I sprang in to action scrapping for my life to make the hob and surrounding area cleaner than a Taiwan microchip manufacturing room only to hear the key in the lock of the front door. SWMBO took one look and exited the kitchen rapidly without saying a word. I'm still on vision only which, I'm beginning to see the positives in. Room inspection will come later, hopefully when sufficient time has passed for her to calm down although history has told me, this is a triumph of hope over reality.
The irony is, I have all the kit in the garage. Why I didn't go in there will be subject to scrutiny no doubt later.........
Being male and convinced I can multi task with the best of them, I decided to package up a jar of honey for a buddy to be posted on that I'd promised to do whilst the hob worked its magic. All wrapped up, I despatched swmbo off to the post office with said package who instructed me to "keep an eye on that pan whilst I'm gone"!!
Still multitasking thinking "what is all the fuss about??" a period of time passed before my eyes widened like Marty Feldmans' and a sharp intake of breath got me moving rapidly to the kitchen. The whole tincture was bubbling away and spitting round the lid covering the prized hob and surrounding work surfaces in a substantial covering of exceedingly small wax dots coupled with a puddle of wax forming to the side of the fifth ring.
Remembering those immortal words of Clint Eastwood from one of his movies, improvise, adapt, overcome!! I sprang in to action scrapping for my life to make the hob and surrounding area cleaner than a Taiwan microchip manufacturing room only to hear the key in the lock of the front door. SWMBO took one look and exited the kitchen rapidly without saying a word. I'm still on vision only which, I'm beginning to see the positives in. Room inspection will come later, hopefully when sufficient time has passed for her to calm down although history has told me, this is a triumph of hope over reality.
The irony is, I have all the kit in the garage. Why I didn't go in there will be subject to scrutiny no doubt later.........
