It's a noble creature.

Hey! That means I can watch Starlost over Starlink!!!!

What a world we live in.........

Compare it to Dr Who in the same period.

"Methinks you don't understand the meaning of the word optional"

Zwilling JA Henckels 8"

I'm still using a Motorola RAZR HD bought in 2013 - with the original battery still giving me more than a day's use.

But I only use it regularly for phone calls and SMS - occasional email and web browsing, no games, no social media.

Home-made clothes are fantastic, but you'll need some practice. And a decent sewing machine - don't buy a cheap one. And space. And patience. You can hunt down cheap patterns at second-hand stores. Once you've made a few items, you'll get faster at it. I'd make more clothes if I had the patience. It can be frustrating, but it's also incredibly rewarding. Head over to r/sewing for some inspiration.

Dressmaker/tailor-made will be best, but it will also be costly. On the other hand, high-quality clothes will last a long time, and you won't need to be buying replacements every 1 - 2 years.

Essteele "Per Vita" pans - stonkin' big thick copper layer in the base. Big, heavy rivets holding the handles on.

Le Creuset enamelled frypans and dutch ovens.

Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud. Take your pick. I'd trust Apple before Microsoft, and Microsoft before Google, but that's just me.

Avoid any plastic utensil where there's a metal equivalent. Metal might cost more, but you'll buy it/them once. Plastic will fail and need replacement, more than once.

There are some exceptions, like bowl scrapers, where you need the flexibility, and utensils for use on non-stick pans.

Depends - is/was the sound quality good, or even adequate? People might tend to go for a known "good", even if short-lived, rather than experiment with an unknown brand, or even a well-known brand but one they haven't had any experience with.

Cast iron kitchen ranges - AGA, Rayburn, Coalbrookdale.

That's because people see it and back away.

Lifetime warranty.

Well, I had to disassemble the rear of it where the insulation was located.

The previous owners had run it "dry", i.e. run fires in it without the boiler having any water in it, so this beautiful heavy-gauge copper boiler had a great big hole burnt in it, so that had to go. The plan was to replace the boiler with firebricks, so,

1. the back panel had to come off. I swear it hadn't been unscrewed since it left the factory in the 1950s
2. the insulation had to come out (this was the scary bit). It was still a bit nasty because it was all kind of decomposed. I think it was originally in sheets, but it came out in handfuls.
3. the boiler had to come out
4. I had to measure up the void and cut firebricks to fit (this is also scary, because firebricks need a diamond saw to cut, and you've *got* to keep it all wet because of a. heat, and b. danger of silica dust
5. fit the bricks and secure them with refractory cement - also a silica dust risk when mixing
6. apply sheets of rockwool or fibreglass insulation
7. screw the back panel on
8. test fire.
9. damn, it leaks, there is smoke coming out everywhere.

I eventually got it working, though. It's not nearly as efficient as the one in my kitchen, but then there's about 40 years of design and manufacturing improvements between them.

I bought an old type 2 rayburn for fun, to restore it and use it as a cold-weather party stove.

I was petrified that it had asbestos for insulation. Imagine my relief when I found out asbestos was only used in AGAs, and Rayburns used rockwool.

Not really - those doors are cast iron, they're quite heavy. You've got to lift them up to open them.

But the front surfaces of the stove are hot enough to burn, and yes, the taps are an issue. Perhaps a fence or guard around the whole stove.

I've got a solid-fuel Rayburn but I never needed a kid-guard, when they started crawling, we went through a few lessons of what "hot" means.

That's excellent! I'm just sad that the solid-fuel models have been withdrawn :-(

I've got a Rayburn with a towel rail in the front, like yours. The rail is a loose, rolling fit in the brackets on each side. I think the small contact point means not much heat can transfer from the body of the stove.

You might be surprised - there's a LOT of AGAs and Rayburns in the UK.

I'm in Australia, and I've got a wood-burning Rayburn. It's got a boiler so it does our hot water as well. I do about 80% of the cooking on it, the rest on a gas cooktop, and a little bit in a Thermomix.

But it *does* take some getting used to.

I bought a Motorola Razr HD in 2013 and it's still going. Phone calls, texts, and infrequent web browsing, still on the original battery, and that still lasts more than a day.

I'm glad my set came from the UK. Ordered at the factory, shipped to Australia.

Mine's called "Cantata" and it was only listed for about 5 years.

OP you could try a "remainders" dealer, e.g.:

https://www.replacements.com/china-wedgwood-cantata/c/113310