Where have you been, Nookie? Yeah, you only put them through once. I make my brother do it at Thanksgiving. The Cockney might be cool with that.

I don’t usually cook because I’m not that into it, but my mom is a really good cook who learned from her mom and grandmother and has taken a million classes since we’ve grown up and moved out. She swears by the ricer.

Totally off topic, but it makes me sad that my mom knows how to do everything – cooking, sewing, playing piano, painting, wallpaper, decorating, AND always worked full time and killed it…. And I can’t do shit. I mean I can make a lasagna and I keep the house real clean, but I have absolutely no abilities.

Huh, where I’ve been is working in a kitchen – when I first got to London I had to use this ricer that had a handle that you spun around? And I always had to rice them twice, that’s the reason for my trepidation. I’m looking into handheld ricer like you’ve got now, it seems much better so thanks!

I’ve tentatively decided to become a vegetarian. It’s only been a week but it’s going pretty well so far, just trying to keep up my protein from other sources. It’s something I’ve thought about for a long time and realised I just have to try and see how it goes.

Sarah b, calling people names isn’t a sign of maturity. Neither is telling us all how mature you are. How many other adults do you see shouting about how mature they are?

But was she taught those things, or learned through experience? We’re a bit more time poor these days than older generations were, plus we have more expendable income to pay someone else to do them for us?