Before Christmas I wrote a blog about the trials and tribulations of getting my lovely new cooker in for Christmas.
Actually, while it was in the room for Christmas, it wasn't connected to the gas so I couldn't use it. Nor could I use it for New Year - still no gas. All through January and February I couldn't use it other than to stack things on as there was still no gas. This was all due to the slowest and least efficient donor of Certificates of Conformity somewhere in Briollay, whose list of why we didn't have the certificate went through - well there was Christmas, New Year, snow, 'flu, a computer virus, half term and not answering his telephone. Finally however it was delivered, and with 2 weeks delay, a meter was delivered and connected up and now I am cooking with gas (yes, I am indeed a former British Gas employee) and on my lovely new cooker.
The sales blah from the company says that it is the piano of the virtuoso cook, or some other flowery phrase. All I know is that I have cooked 5 meals on it now and every one has worked perfectly and been delicious, from a simple pasta sauce and spaghetti, through scrambled eggs to last night's stir fried satay chicken.
If I weren't so full of cold, I would be in 7th heaven, but right now in any case my world is a better place - and soon our ground floor room will be back to normality. Here is the wonderous beast in all its glory.
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