Circular Heating Element.

Another chapter in the "everything breaks down in our final year in this house" story. Apparently the circular heating element at the back of our fan-assisted oven has decided to suddenly stop working. The good news are that the grill element still works, so the oven is not completely useless, and that the reparation shouldn't be too expensive, if it is indeed only the element, and not some strange electrical fault. We noticed this yesterday when we made lasagne, and put it into the supposedly pre-heated oven only to find it cold, although the light was on and the fan was blowing merrily away. 

The next tenants will find themselves in a truly pristine house, at least when it comes to all kinds of appliances, we'll eventually have them all broken and switched to new ones before our time is out.

In other news it is steadily getting colder, someone told me they heard a long time cold scare prognosis of this winter going to be one of the worst in all time British history, with temperatures possibly plummeting below -25ºC. Hopefully it won't happen, for the sake of everyone living in these poorly insulated houses, and England will simply cease to function.

A couple colder days would be nice though, since the freezer really needs defrosting. It builds up frost really fast, due to the outrageous indoor humidity.