In search of a fridge

Recently, our fridge packed up and so I went online to find a replacement. Understandably as if was the second Bosch larder fridge to fail in just 8 years (more on this later perhaps) I wanted another make. The most important feature of the new fridge was its height ... it had to fit in the existing hole! But I soon discovered that one cannot search on this parameter. In fact many online domestic appliance sites do not even give the height up front but you have to get 'further detail'. It seems that cubic capacity, auto-defrost or whether or not it has a bottle shelf are more important. It took literally hours of searching, to come up with a small set of possibilities.
So, web site designers - please think of the user. Don't assume you know what the user wants to search for. And appliance manufacturers - please make the data available in machine readable form (where has the semantic web gone?)

Dramatic rescue in the canal lock

Local resident, Geoffrey successfully completed a dramatic rescue this week after a big gust of wind swept his son's hat into the canal lock in Slaithwaite centre. Nath, 20 months, was balancing on a bollard by the lock (securely tethered to his dad) and his favourite hat was whisked off his head and landed some 16ft down in the lock. They both watched intently as the blue cotton hat was slowly blown along by the lock wall and were disappointed when it eventually sank beneath the water.
Undaunted he, went home and returned with a set of chimney sweep poles, a length of stiff wire, some rope and sticky tape. He cunningly fashioned a three pronged 'hat catcher' on the end of the pole and patiently swept the canal bottom in the vicinity of the last sighting of the childs hat. On the fifth pass, the headgear was brought to the surface on the end of the 20ft stick and after a wash and dry, was reunited with it gleeful owner. The only disappointment, according to Geoffrey, was that there was no one on the lockside to photograph the event!