The best things we bought recently are an electric blanket (£20) and an electric food chopper/blender thingy (£18).

The blender is making mincemeat (hee-hee) of Penn-puss's special dietary requirements, and the blanket is just sheer luxury.

Art Academy for the DS.

I do like an electric blanket but I now have a mattress topper and a winter duvet which is great, though I never managed to find a replacement for my tog 20 duvet that I had years ago.

A universal plug that finally enables that bloody treat dispenser to work! That said, on the dispenser's lowest setting you get an actual handful, never mind the next three settings

I have a new tablet too but it's getting it's first charge

The Acer A210 is awesome so far, though I can't tell if Jellybean's faster or the chip's helping

Brain confusion again - I thought you were saying the Jellybeans were faster in the sweet dispenser than the chips

'... I was very, very drunk'

You are not used to the low intake of Coke.

Logitech T650 Touchpad

Works great with Windows 8. A very nice device and enables all of the edge wipes etc. that W8 supports.

I haven't used the Apple Touchpad, but I guess the Logitech is a Windows analogue. It takes a bitof getting used to, I never used to like touchpads, especially not on laptops, but the Logitech is very good. For some things, like games, I miss a mouse, but for most tasks it is excellent.

It brings the touch functionality to a laptop or desktop that Windows 8 offers without the drawback of not being able to see the screen through grease smears and fingerprints.

Ordered a 'V' mask for my wall - one side of it's bigger than the other, and right at the top and part of the mask is the hole for retail display

And that's the official merch! I'd have been better getting a Chinese knock off from eBay

SanDisk Cruzer Slice 32GB

Hmm, only £13 from Costco but I'm copying some RAW files from a memory card to it at the moment and the transfer rate is about 4 MB/sec.
I suspect it's so slow due to some combination of the USB port I'm using and the fact that it's transferring from a memory card reader in the same PC (could they be sharing the same USB controller?). Still, not the kind of performance I expect from SanDisk.

Yeah, don't know the ins and outs, but I've had that experience with two sticks

Potentially brilliant, a pair of Timberland boots for £35 off M and M in their sale

I read this post wrong I thought you were stating M and M as in size Medium and I was thinking "that cant be right, pcernie no doubt has clowns feet"

12.5s as it goes, I'm a 13 in shoes