I knew that my second freezer was feeling its age when the red emergency light stayed on no matter what we tried. I knew the freezer was old when we got it off my Mum about eight years ago. (my first freezer is twenty years old as she was bought for us as a wedding present)

I decided we needed a new freezer, hoping that my rather poorly freezer would stay with us long enough and after wandering around the net for a while, chose an A rated machine, big as we could afford before they went up to silly prices. Delivered yesterday afternoon. Fortunately my poorly freezer managed to keep going until then.

Yesterday morning, Mum and Dad took me out for coffee, whilst chatting I told them about the freezer and commented that it must be well over twenty years old. Mum said, “and the rest”. “Go on”, I say. So she charted the history of the freezer, that it had started life at my Nan’s house, then resided at my Uncles butchers, then back home to my Nan, then it was the family emergency freezer for a while staying at various places, before becoming the emergency freezer for my Mum. During its life with Mum I seem to remember it being the freezer that was carted back and forth to the school (Mum was a caretaker for an infants school) to keep ice cream and ice lollies frozen for the children at their Summer Fete. Then when Mum no longer needed it, it was given to me, must be about eight years ago.

My Mum thinks that as a conservative estimate the freezer is Forty years old, which is nearly as old as me!

If that freezer could talk, I wonder what tales she would tell us about the produce/goodies she has kept frozen in her tummy.