Monday, September 5

Started watching "girl with a pearl earring" then a fuse blew and all electrical appliances stopped working. Stumbled into my fusebox, wielding my phone as a flashlight and attempted to flick some switches to get the light working again. Found out that they'd flick right back so got to play the interesting game:"Pull all power-plugs from their sockets, once again restore power in the house and then start plugging in appliances one by one".

Eventually found out that the appliance at fault was my microwave, earlier in the night a cup of hot chocolate accidentally boiled over and for some reason shorted the microwave an hour and a half later. Decided to keep it unplugged and let it dry for the night. Aaaargh!