The Weasel: I've got the hots for you; Gorgeous to look at and cooks like a dream " no wonder I'm in love with my new barbecue.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 24, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Christopher Hirst

DESIGN MAKES love rats of us all. We think we're besotted by the glass-topped bathroom scales, but then along comes a retro toaster and we fall head over heels. Like a tabloid Lothario, a few blemishes on our inamorata are all it takes for our eye to start straying. I never felt the same about my old Apple laptop after the Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (858pp) tumbled from my desk shelf and whammed into the top left-hand corner of the keyboard. 1, 2 and Q were goners. Though the computer allowed me to play with the rubber nipples revealed ...