I swear that every time I return home after a prolonged period at work I am confronted with a list of jobs to do and appliances that have packed up and need replacing. A cynical person would almost think it was planned. While I was away this time the rice cooker packed up (oh dear, what a pity, never mind) and we had some cretin move and clean a couple of aircon units. The less said the better.

Last night I was cooking tea and discovered that the microwave had stopped working. The light packed up a couple of years ago but now the turntable goes round and round and it makes all the right noises but the food remains stone cold.

Tonight all I wanted to do was make a meal of re-heated, left-over shepherd's pie with some veg. The pie went into he convection oven but what to do with the veg? How to cook the beans and sweetcorn?

I resorted to the gardener's microwave. Once seen, cannot be unseen.



Not a bad result mind...



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