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As you don't have a battery operated radio, rather than purchasing one, consider purchasing a wind-up radio instead. They don't cost very much (in England, where I am anyway) and as they don't require batteries if you're without power for any length of time, you won't have to worry about the batteries going flat and not having spares. There are wind-up LED torches too, which have the same benefits of not having batteries to cart about and worry over.

While hiding veggies and other 'good for you' foods kids hate is all well and good, I wouldn't suggest trying it with a recipe they already love. All that will do is lead them to believe the food they do like tastes wrong and 'yucky' and they won't agree to eat it again. Mum tried it with me many years ago without luck. It's more important that a kid stick with eating the stuff they will - especially if it's something like pasta with tomato and meatball sauce (Mum would have loved it if my brother had eaten something as nutritious as that) - than get put off it and be reduced to eating very poorly.

We have that oven. My mother has forbidden the glass to be lowered except when it's being cleaned. I think she is concerned it will be shattered - either by lowering it while the stove is radiating heat (our stove leaks heat like a sieve) or the hob is too hot, or by something too heavy being placed on it carelessly when it is down. So as we have no other storage for our pans they live on the hob and the glass remains up.

No kitchen? D: But. How do you cook and bake?

Books stored in a bathroom? D: I can't think it'll do them any good, even if it looks pretty.

I love to rearrange stuff. Sadly the lack of power outlets in this house is really limiting, because I really don't want to have more wire exposed than necessary! Roll on wireless power :D

Of course, another factor that limits the ability to rearrange is that I'm still living at home with Mum, and well it's all hers except for my bedroom, where the layout is limited by needing power and a network point for my PC and printer, and the placing of a rather long radiator under the window (which is as wide as the room - lovely for light except that due to the power point situation, it gets on my monitor!)

Careen: I do that too! :) Very relaxing.

We store right side up, but as they're in cupboards and also used frequently I think that's okay. If they were to be out in the open/less frequently used, then I think I'd want them bottom up.

I'm so pleased to see this got through! :) Brilliant apartment!

This space feels empty and impersonal to me, so I've had to vote not my thing.

Sorry, I had to vote 'no way' - it's too cluttered and the combination of the doors and the grey makes it look very aged. Surely there are better storage combinations you could employ?

I don't, won't, cook for just me. I don't like it. I'll reheat something I've made a batch of, but I don't like to cook from scratch for just me to eat.