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Find nearly any book by Simon Brett (page 2). Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. A ShocK To The System (Isis Series). ISBN 9781856954983 (978-1-85695-498-3) Isis Audio Books, 1990.

Miggy tells her sorry story as she wrestles with the environmental issues presented by the act of putting on the kettle to make a reviving cup of tea.

Top Royalty Free Plays. This was originally written to be performed in a kitchen, but a normal stage space will do. It concerns thirty-something Miggy, a "Sloane Ranger" who has just been dumped by boyfriend Roddy because she is too "shallow" and doesn't care for the environment in the way his new love, Harmony, does.

Putting the Kettle on (2002). Samuel French London, publishers of plays. Categories: 1945 births Living people BBC people English crime fiction writers English dramatists and playwrights English novelists English radio producers English radio writers People from Arundel People from Worcester Park Members of the Detection Club Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Old Alleynians.

Putting the kettle on is the all-purpose British panacea, for good news or. .

Putting the kettle on is the all-purpose British panacea, for good news or bad. The significance of the kettle is that it is designed to produce boiling water quickly and you need boiling water to make tea especially. Something that Americans don’t seem to understand, ‘hot’ water is not enough, it needs to be boiling. 1. k views · View 19 Upvoters. But I'm French and not that well aware of British running jokes so it would be very kind if a brit could confirm my guess. Answered Mar 14, 2018 · Author has 1k answers and . m answer views. in my neck of the southern woods, the phrase mean.its gonna be a long night.

Putting the Kettle on by Simon Brett (Paperback, 2002).

Putting the Kettle on by Simon Brett (Paperback, 2002).

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He slammed the window and put on the gas-fire. It hissed resentfully but came alight (which was more than it sometimes did). He felt strongly in need of a bath, stripped off his grubby clothes and put on a shapeless towelling dressing-gown. Taking a fivepence from his change, he went down to the bathroom on the first landing, checked that the water wasn’t running hot, and fed the meter. Then he remembered soap and towel. Upstairs again to get them.

Simon Brett (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a radio producer and writer of detective fiction. Putting the Kettle on (2002). Brett has written several books about Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective. There are 19 novels featuring this character.