All hail the mighty dishwasher

For something like the first month we were here we didn't have a dishwasher. Plus we had no hot water (unless the fire was on) so washing up was something of a trial. Occassionally I feel bored of filling and emptying the dishwasher, recently we seem to have been doing a lot of things that create washing up (all the bottling and jamming) and filling and emptying sometimes feels like a full time job. So I have to remind myself of the time before the dishwasher and how much more boring and painful washing up by hand was.

We brought the washing machine with us when we came so we didn't have to survive more than about a week without that before the plumber plumbed it in.
The other thing we are still missing at the moment is a freezer. We have a small fridge and it does have an ice box, but one which can only freeze condensation so it gets all frosted up but it cannot even managed icecubes with any reliability. Trusting it with food is certainly not a good idea. We have just ordered a fridge freezer and it will be exciting to have things in the freezer so trips to the supermarket can perhaps become less frequent.