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After attending to a few now and hosting one myself, I thought it might be a good idea to air some useful hints and tips to keepeveryone happy for a successful bakeoff
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER ONE: You are in someone else's home.
You might live like a slob in your house, but never assume everyone else does.Be respectful of your host's homeotherwise hemay not be allowed to host another bakeoff by his missus.
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER TWO: They are not your neighbours.
You may have the luxury of a detached house a zillion miles from your nearest neighbour but most of us are jammed into adjoining houses in this overcrowded country and it isn't right having your host getting the fury of the neighbours for the din you have madeonce you have gone home.
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER THREE: The owner of the kit commands the volume control
A couple of times now I have witnessed kit beingdamaged by too much enthusiasm with the volume control (or damn close), cases damaged by incorrect stacking, live leads left trailing aroundand touching when they shouldn't and power up/down procedures being not being correctly followed. Fine if you do it, but not when someone else has knackered it for you and you have to pick up the tab for sorting it.
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER FOUR: Everyone gets a turn
There is nothing more annoying I think than to box up your precious kit and take it along to a bakeoff and it has stayed boxed because it isn't flavour of the month, or someone has got this notion into their head that THEIR kit is the best ever and hogs the proceedings. In my opinion some of the BEST sounds have come from some very unlikely matchesfrom very diverse price tags. Same too with music; you may love reggae for examplebut not everyone else necessarily does, despite you thinking too that classical musicis mindlessly"boring".
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER FIVE: It's her house too
Your hostess doesn't have two heads or come down from another planet and the very least you can do is be polite and courteous to her, especially if she has spent a lot of her time sprucing up the place and laying on refreshments etc for you all. She doesn't want coffee stains all over her carpet, scratches on her furniture, dogends in her sink, a mountain of endless washing up, piddle stains in her bathroom, remains of sandwiches in her pot plants,deafened well beyond what volumeher old man listens to the music, but worst of all is to be ignored by guests in her own home, so a well timed "thank you" calling her by her name gets a lot of brownie points and less resistance from her for another bakeoff.
I say by following those few simple rules there's no reason why a bakeoff shouldn't be enjoyed by all
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER ONE: You are in someone else's home.
You might live like a slob in your house, but never assume everyone else does.Be respectful of your host's homeotherwise hemay not be allowed to host another bakeoff by his missus.
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER TWO: They are not your neighbours.
You may have the luxury of a detached house a zillion miles from your nearest neighbour but most of us are jammed into adjoining houses in this overcrowded country and it isn't right having your host getting the fury of the neighbours for the din you have madeonce you have gone home.
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER THREE: The owner of the kit commands the volume control
A couple of times now I have witnessed kit beingdamaged by too much enthusiasm with the volume control (or damn close), cases damaged by incorrect stacking, live leads left trailing aroundand touching when they shouldn't and power up/down procedures being not being correctly followed. Fine if you do it, but not when someone else has knackered it for you and you have to pick up the tab for sorting it.
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER FOUR: Everyone gets a turn
There is nothing more annoying I think than to box up your precious kit and take it along to a bakeoff and it has stayed boxed because it isn't flavour of the month, or someone has got this notion into their head that THEIR kit is the best ever and hogs the proceedings. In my opinion some of the BEST sounds have come from some very unlikely matchesfrom very diverse price tags. Same too with music; you may love reggae for examplebut not everyone else necessarily does, despite you thinking too that classical musicis mindlessly"boring".
GOLDEN RULE NUMBER FIVE: It's her house too
Your hostess doesn't have two heads or come down from another planet and the very least you can do is be polite and courteous to her, especially if she has spent a lot of her time sprucing up the place and laying on refreshments etc for you all. She doesn't want coffee stains all over her carpet, scratches on her furniture, dogends in her sink, a mountain of endless washing up, piddle stains in her bathroom, remains of sandwiches in her pot plants,deafened well beyond what volumeher old man listens to the music, but worst of all is to be ignored by guests in her own home, so a well timed "thank you" calling her by her name gets a lot of brownie points and less resistance from her for another bakeoff.
I say by following those few simple rules there's no reason why a bakeoff shouldn't be enjoyed by all
