Xbox or cooker?
posted by Missus Boot at 19:48
Months have been spent persuading Edd that getting an Xbox would be a spiffing thing to do, and how we could enhance our relationship by racing and shooting each other. He was never too sure about getting one and didn't care for the joypad much, and it seemed that the Xbox plan was doomed to failure. Then he decided he like the look of PGR2 very much and, joy of joys, we were getting an Xbox. Woo hoo!

So, there I was, waiting for the oven to warm up and enjoying a quick gamesesh in anticipation of ordering the Xbox, when there's this flash in the corner of my eye. As I was shooting things at the time, I put it down to a peripheral vision glitchette and continued to shoot things. After a short while and bored of shooting things, I go to make a nice cup of tea and notice that the cooker is off, there's no lights or hob or oven noise. Erk. Happily, a quick fiddle with the fuse box revealed a blown cooker fuse, this was remedied, the hob came on, kettle boiled and there was cheery tea all round.

As oven seemed nicely pre-heated despite the fuse incident, I put the boy's ovenyfood into the oven and set the timer. 30 minutes later, timer makes annoying noise and I check on his dinner. His very uncooked dinner, in fact, in what appeared to be a slightly lukewarm oven.

Eh? Lukewarm? It should really be quite positively roasty at 220 degrees, FFS. I put my hand in it and grabbed the grill thing wot you put baking trays on, and found it was not burning and blistering my hand like it normally does. Not good. The oven goes buggerup and takes the Xbox dosh out with it.

Hob works, though, so at least we can have tea.