The cooker
Ok Jo put our oven on for the first time and it looks like the heating element has blown, now this cooker is one of those expensive gas type ranges and we have to get a guy out to fix it on a special 0845 number as I don't fancy fixing it when its that expensive. The fact that "Sparks came out and the oven glowed a deep red" seemed unsafe so jo switched it off, luckily it has as secondary oven so we can (sorry I can) actually cook still.
C'est la vie, if this is the only thing thats gone wrong I'm pleased.