Exploding Kittens Original Edition Review: The Right Game for the Right Table
A fifteen-minute luck-and-dodging card game for two to five players. The fit between game and table decides everything, and the editions need untangling.
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A fifteen-minute luck-and-dodging card game for two to five players. The fit between game and table decides everything, and the editions need untangling.

A specialist kettle can make a familiar routine easier to repeat. At £165 on Amazon.co.uk it is a harder first purchase for someone still working out how they like to brew.

Settle the serving before the size: £32 for 350ml, £35 for 500ml. Both want carrying upright and washing by hand.

The inexpensive dripper is easy to buy. Deciding whether you enjoy controlling the brew is the more important part.

A £7.95 dripper and a £35 tumbler. The price is the easy part; the filters, the hand washing and the recipient's existing habits are not.

£31.99 buys four 270 ml bottles with the removable vent Dr Brown's calls clinically proven against colic. The UK pages offer professional surveys and feeding studies, not a colic trial, and the vent adds pieces to every wash.

The £24 FURminator Medium Long Hair tool pulls loose undercoat with a guarded stainless edge, provided the coat is dry and mat-free and the dog weighs 9 to 23 kilograms.