So come on...what did you think about while the iPM kettle boiled?

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• 1. At 06:05am on 27 Jun 2009, orangeearlymorning wrote:

  I thought how wacky it was that with a busy morning ahead I was sitting quietly in the kitchen with my eyes closed ! Nice and calming though. I should do it more often. When the kettle came to the boil I thought how nice it would be to go to my local swimming baths for a sauna. Hope that helps !!!

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• 2. At 06:07am on 27 Jun 2009, Eddie Mair wrote:

  Thank you orange. Don't get too wrinkled.

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• 3. At 06:26am on 27 Jun 2009, iantoffee wrote:

  In chemistry lessons we used to put a bumping chip in the test tube to prevent explosive boiling. Why don't kettles have this? The sound would be much smoother. Better for meditating to.

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• 4. At 06:27am on 27 Jun 2009, RachelCumbrian wrote:

  If I want to hear a kettle boiling at this point in the morning, I have one of my own, thank you! I'd much rather have had more speech from the charming (West Country) scientist, or some other intellectual pursuits (which is what I prefer from Radio 4, thank you, even though whimsical items are appreciated from time to time.). Did you run out of things to talk about?

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• 5. At 06:30am on 27 Jun 2009, aukmelbourne wrote:

  Listening over the net on a cool, muggy afternoon in Melbourne, I tried to work out if the kettle you broadcast was gas or electric, and concluded it must be on a gas stove, and there was probably some calcium deposit on the inside of the kettle causing the popping sounds.
  
  This made me think that I should change over from my usual electric to my ancient gas kettle since gas is 4 times cheaper per energy unit, but then again, the gas requires the use of a match which puts phosphorus in the kitchen air and is more bothersome than pushing the button on the electric.
  
  And then there's the issue that the gas kettle doesn't turn itself off, which is a nuisance if I go to the other end of the house and forget about it and return to see a glowing red kettle with no water left in it!
  
  Hmmm. I think I'll stick with the electric. But I do feel a certain nostalgia for the old gas kettles.
  
  Cheers from Alan in muggy mouldy Melbourne.

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• 6. At 06:37am on 27 Jun 2009, Titan_yer_tummy wrote:

  I just thought I'm gasping for a cup of tea and I'm not going to wait much longer. In the world of great experiments I don't really see where this is going. Tyt

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• 7. At 07:05am on 27 Jun 2009, lornamca1 wrote:

  I thought about how I have to attend the closing tonight of an independently funded integrated Primary School in Fivemiletown,Clogher Valley, Co. Tyrone. I thought how sad it is that when parents want to educate their children together, they have to struggle and work for years voluntarily to do it. I thought how depressing it is in a country whose people recognises difference in the slightest thing such as the name we have, the jewellery we wear or the sport we play that attempts to bring children of diverse religious and racial backgrounds together in the one school to learn to be able to deal with difference is still left in the hands of a group of parents to fight the institutional separate systems and it is not government policy to create integrated schools as the first choice of this jurisdiction. There has to be a better way, not just for those parents and children but for the whole of the country.
  

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• 8. At 08:34am on 27 Jun 2009, Titan_yer_tummy wrote:

  Why have you moderated me please?

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• 9. At 09:50am on 27 Jun 2009, breadhg wrote:

  This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

• 10. At 10:13am on 27 Jun 2009, bankingballs wrote:

  #8,
  
  Don't waste your keypresses, you will never get an answer to that question from the BBC.

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• 11. At 10:46am on 27 Jun 2009, shpesojts wrote:

  Sounds as though the kettle needs cleansing of limescale.

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• 12. At 11:48am on 27 Jun 2009, Eddie Mair wrote:

  8 - there was a Moderation Clinic on the PM blog recently which might help.
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/06/moderation_clinic.shtml

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• 13. At 4:47pm on 27 Jun 2009, Edwardprom wrote:

  I thought how quickly your kettle boiled compared with ours, and wondered whether that was because the barometric pressure was higher where you were, or whether your kettle was less energy efficient than ours. That took me to thinking about global warming, which is a heavy topic for the early morning, so I went back to bed.

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• 14. At 3:25pm on 30 Jun 2009, margoinlondon wrote:

  I am a blogging virgin so please forgive me if I'm on the wrong page. This is not to do with kettles but just a recurring irritation I'd like to share.
  I want to share my incredulity about the way we just keeping getting a cumulative total of the people 'with' swine flu. Apart from a handful of unfortunate, frail people who were already very unwell, everyone is now either recovering or recovered. I know bad news sells, but the added complication of us all panicking about this are the organisational repercussions of handing out the new Lemsip that is Tamiflu. I think I'll write to Liam Donaldson too although I don't think he writes the headlines.

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• 15. At 07:04am on 01 Jul 2009, shennachiejohn wrote:

  Lyng in bed hearing your kettle boil brought to mind Adlestrop:
  
  ... The name because one afternoon
  Of heat the express-train drew up there
  Unwontendly. It was late June.
  The steam hissed...
  
  

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• 16. At 06:11am on 04 Jul 2009, Black_Joke wrote:

  I am transported back about 20 years to a beautiful spring early morning on the Isle of Skye. I and my great friend Phil (who has subsequently died from stomach cancer) are sitting on a slipway waiting for the first Ferry of the day and making a brew. As our kettle boiled we became intensely aware of the sounds and smells around us. Magically a seal popped its head out of the water to watch us and then disappeared again with a kind of 'plop'.

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• 17. At 3:35pm on 05 Jul 2009, Bawdseypostie wrote:

  How do traffic lights know it's me?

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