In the course of doing my least favourite thing ever (Asking For Help To Do Something I Could Probably Really Do On My Own, It Will Just Be Harder And Much More Tiring) I got distracted by the effort of will needed to write a whole paragraph on Facebook that might suggest I'm not totally 110% sorted. So I forgot to take the rice off the heat. The rice burned. Smoke, much smoke, and the smoke alarm needs a ladder to switch off, so I grabbed the pan and held it out the window till it was emitting a bit less smoke, plonked a handy teatowel over it and went to dash to the front door (rather than drop the pan into next door's garden), knocked the pan lid off, snatched the lid up off the floor before remembering it was hot, burnt my hand, dumped the pan on kitchen floor to stick sizzling fingers under the cold tap... and then I noticed a new and different burning smell. That would be the pan melting a hole in the lino then.
Argh.
Now I have a freezing living room and kitchen, a flat that stinks of burnt rice and melted lino, sore fingers, and a suspicion I won't be getting my whole deposit back after all. And I think I might have killed my rice pot.
Also it's DARK.
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