Warning: Dinner.

A light has appeared on the cooker. i will qualify this statement: a previously unseen Red Spot has lit up on the display panel of the electric hob, and i haven't even the Slightest Inkling of what it may signify. It Does Not mean 'this is on', another blip is already on the job there, two would be overkill, surely, even for a woman who can't work clingfilm. It doesn't mean 'you are cooking', although all of us would welcome a Definite Sign when this is taking place, and perhaps An Alarm which goes off if i grate butter instead of cheese, again. Before i do it. Not afterward. It Is not the lock to stop accidental alteration of the heat whilst one cooks, there is one, presumably a Mercy Feature, fitted when it was known i was coming. Also, this is a different display panel to the one for the actual oven portion of the device, which occasionally sounds a Random Siren and shuts down all operations until you hit all the buttons firmly with the flat of your hand several times, whereupon it stops, and the heat comes back on. Usually, cookers have a facility to start by timer, not usually to stop. Again, the suspicion it has been Personalized. Aunty Helen once sent me to check on our tea, when i stayed with her: 'what temperature have i put it on?'- Never Choose Friends Too Far Out of Your Own Orbit- 'it's between four and five.' 'what? oh, for god's sake' (very patiently) 'AP, that's the timer. that, there is the Gas Settings.' i think i'll turn it off at the wall, and hope that that is what it was trying to tell me: Stop.