And to top it all off, every smoke alarm in my house went off in the

[Sir C]

Mind you, I did a remarkably stupid thing the other day. I was heating the oil in a bun tin for Yorkshire puddings in one of my ovens. Only, rather than switch the oven on, I switched the grill on and shut the door. When I opened the oven door, of course, they all caught fire. I got them to the sink and just remembered in time not to run the tap onto them, instead doing the wet tea towel thing.

Of course, all the while the smoke alarm was helpfully going off to tell me that something was on fire - in case I hadn't noticed.

You could, of course, have just closed the oven door...