Crumbs!!!

Normally I work on the assumption that most household appliances should just carry on working for ever without intervention. Although for toasters and kettles their idea of eternity seems to be a couple of years if you're lucky. Sometimes I wonder if they're cleverly engineered to stop working after their equvalent of 3 score years and ten. Anyway I was fiddling with the toaster this morning - turned it upside down, shook it, removed the ash tray; the result a mountain of crumbs. Very satisfying.