 This Is My Aga – the new online resource for Aga owners which aims to locate every working model in the UK – is proving a massive hit.
Hundreds of owners from Shetland to Cornwall and Snowdonia to Norfolk have joined the This Is My Aga club and put their Aga on the map.
The site allows owners to signpost their Aga on an interactive map of the UK. They can also post photographs of their Agas and share interesting anecdotes. Many are highly informative, some offer useful advice, scores talk about an enduring love affair with the Aga and some are very amusing indeed.
One This Is My Aga member from Surrey posted a picture of her Aga trying to run away from home. The caption reads: “Please help – Runaway. I am an Aga that is trying to run away from my owners. Trouble is, I haven't got much further than the front garden and it's taken me two weeks to get this far. I have a feeling that I may be spotted one day soon. What should I do?”
Another registered owner poses the question: where is the northernmost Aga in the UK? Mary, of Ollaberry on Shetland, writes: “When we built our new house in Shetland it was designed from the very beginning for an Aga! It was strange to see the concrete slab for the house with the raised plinth for the Aga laid in a bare field and imagine that this would be our new kitchen. Is our 4 oven dark blue Aga perhaps the most northerly in Britain?”
Julie, of Davenport near Macclesfield, talks of why she adores her Aga. “My sister has an Aga and has had one for over 20 years. I just love the way you can walk into the room and it feels all cosy and warm. I decided that if I bought a house that would suit an Aga then I would have one.
“Finally, I have now got my Aga and I love it too bits. There is no pressure when cooking food. Things stay nice and warm in the slow oven while waiting for other items to cook in the hot oven. I absolutely love it to bits.”
 New convert Sue adds: “We never thought we'd be able to fit an Aga into the house, but having built a major extension, it was now or never. The whole family love it. We no longer have a microwave, toaster or kettle. It's always ready and has changed our lifestyle completely. The children cook on it, their friends warm their feet on it! It even looks after the dog when he's a bit under the weather!”
Francis – who perhaps wisely kept her location to herself – writes: “If it was a choice between my husband or my Aga, guess what I would choose!”
 Judy Pateson, who lives in the Lake District, posted a wonderfully amusing picture on the site, with a story which is just as much fun.
“My father and husband dismantled our Aga from a house on Walney Island in 1978 bringing it to our house in Ambleside. We never had the funds to install it but have continued to keep it as we moved. My eldest son last year rebuilt it on a plinth and it can be moved about by a tractor with a fork lift device behind. He has also built a hydraulic lift that will put the Aga into the back of our old Land Rover.
“We took it to the races last year and it has been transported to various picnic sites. We have cooked roasts in it and drop scones on the top. If we have a big supper/lunch party we use it to cook on or keep the plates warm, outside our kitchen! In other words, we have had enormous fun with it.”
To register your Aga – and qualify for fantastic competitions and offers and invitations to exclusive events – visit http://www.thisismyaga.co.uk/ today |
