Merry Christmas!

We’re taking a break over Christmas, but will be back in the New Year with more Miele excellence. We just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone we’ve met this year – Thanks!

Come 2010 we’ll be doing more than ever in the way of activities, events and content for the ForeverBetter site. Hopefully you’ll join us and get involved in all we have planned.

Merry Christmas and we’ll see you all soon!

More action from The Good Food Show

Yesterday we heard about how Kits fared at The Good Food Show (GFS) in Birmingham and today there is more, this time from Anne’s Kitchen who attended the GFS at the previous venue to hold the extravaganza – Olympia. We’ve already featured the reaction to the day from The Sugar Bar and Sunita’s World, but now we’re going to concentrate on Anne who was most pleased to have the chance to head to the show as a guest of Miele.

First up was Masterchef Live and the invention test. About 30 contestants took part, all getting to present their dishes to Masterchef champs Mat Follas (above) and Steve Groves. Anne decided against taking part,

“Miele had given us the opportunity to take part I but politely declined as I was far too terrified of looking like an idiot; I love cooking, as you may have guessed by now, but I like to cook at my own pace and had previously agreed with close friends that it would be potentially a disaster and I would probably either burn myself of set something alight!! Well done to all the other brave souls who went up!”

Brave souls indeed! Anne’s post on the event is full of photos and further thoughts under the headings, The Food, The Stalls and Liquid Lunch, which includes this,

“The alcohol sampling was far too tempting to resist this time around, I had previously driven to the other Good Food shows so I didn’t have chance to try before but luckily with this show being in London, it was easier to go by tube and be collected by the boyfriend after. A good job too as felt mildly sozzled by the end!”

That’s what it’s there for! Joking aside though, Anne has given great coverage of what was available in liquid format at the show and it is well worth a read, especially if your looking for Christmas gifts of an alcoholic variety.

As I’ve said there is plenty to get your teeth into (excuse the pun) in Anne’s full post, so click through and have your appetite whetted! And it doesn’t stop there,

“Fortunately the enjoyment of the day doesn’t end at the show, I picked up a copy of the show guide, which also features a good selection of recipes which I am hoping to make and blog soon.”

We can’t wait!

Vacuum decisions to be made on Digital Spy

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat – but most importantly needles from your tree will soon be shedding across the carpet, so in the run up to December it’s important to check that your vacuum cleaner is up to the task.

Angelsherlock has done just that after having bought “a piece of rubbish Electrolux pet vacuum which worked brilliantly ONCE”, and is on the look out in digitalspy.com for a suitable replacement. Amt27 suggests “Henry or Miele”, while StressMonkey goes with the latter, saying “I absolutely love my 5280 – makes short work of dog/cat hair and has a hepa filter.”

Of course, msjj reminds everyone that there is plenty of discussion out there about the best vacuum to be using “There’s been a few threads about this and from what I remember most folks went for Miele or Henry”, although A-friend does disagree slightly “Sebo and Miele seem to come out top”.

Either way – get involved with this particular discussion here.