This caught my eye as the most important thing happening in the world right now. Someone being wrong on the internet about baked potatoes: that’s my jam. Somebody needs to resign over this. First of all, let’s deal with the elephant in the room. “Serves 4”? 2 large baking potatoes? Between four people? Does not compute. Speaking as a man who can polish off two fairly large baking potatoes on his own, with only slight regrets, this is ridiculous.

Having spent much of yesterday 'writing by candlelight' as the electrical engineers failed to fit a new fuse box in the house (See previous post), I was faced with further joy overnight. First of all, about 20:30 last night, the broadband went out. And stayed out. So I am tethered to my phone again. I don't think the electrical engineers were responsible, since they had abandoned ship about eight hours previous.

Well, this has been an interesting/depressing morning. At the beginning of October, we had a smart meter fitted. It did not go smoothly. The electrician who fitted it, a British Gas employee, was horrified at the state of our fuse box. She basically condemned the box, put tape across it, and said we needed to have it upgraded as a matter of urgency.

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