In our weekly interview about objects, the medical journalist tells us about his other area of expertise – stain removal – and his fondness for omelettes
At home, Swan is also an expert in stain removal. That’s why he considers his “shpritz” – the small bottle of stain remover he wields like a weapon at the dinner table – his most useful object. Here, he extols the virtues of that shirt-saving spray, and shares stories of a few other important items.If we take saving family members and photographs as a given, my answer is actually not much, which is odd because I do hang on to things for not very well-defined reasons.
When I first came to Australia it was only for a year and so I temporarily stored cherished possessions in my parents’ loft in Glasgow. I never ended up moving them here, even when a year became decades. After my parents died I went up into the loft to have a look and wondered what had made these things so cherished at the time. I took a couple of books and that was it. Maybe it’s that I don’t need things for memories.
The second is my egg flip utensil. During lockdown I got hooked on trying to make the perfect omelette, which in fact, is supposed to be made only using a fork. I freely admit to cheating with an egg flip but who cares when an unblemished soft, yellow omelette lands on the plate?Well, I didn’t lose it, one of my brothers did. My parents had reels and reels of Super 8 film of us as kids: barmitzvahs, family holidays and other occasions across many years.
My brother was supposed to transfer them on to video to preserve them and he can’t remember what became of them. What I’d give to be reminded of times and people gone by.
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