You know when you’re trying to get ready to go away? Stuff is everywhere. You have lists all over the place. All the things you should have done over the last 6 months are poking their tongues out at you singing nahnah na nah na. And then, something else goes wrong that becomes the icing on the cake. I had my icing today. Our new stovetop (remember the problems we had at the end of September?) decided to pack it in. Just like that.

No warning. I boiled a kettle for hot water, I put my pot on the stove with a little oil in the bottom to sear and brown the beef for a slow roasted thai curry that I’ve been looking forward to all week. And wham. The logic of the LED just started going nuts and now it’s dead. And because we live in France where the customer service is reknown for being non-existant we are only at the start of this caper, we have a call in to Darty and then who knows what hoops we’ll have to jump through to get this sorted before we leave.

So, pizza for dinner (again!)….