Experiments

I made the lardy cake ( failure )

I also put my bathroom clock in the oven, because it stopped *again* when I had a bath (which doesn't create anything like as much steam as a hot shower in winter; just a few wisps rising off the surface of the water rather than dense clouds obscuring the far side of the bathroom...) It did duly start again after half an hour or so in a warmish environment, but I left it in there until the lardy cake had finally risen, in the hopes of drying out for good whatever moisture was short-circuiting it.

I haven't done any more bathing since, but was rather concerned to discover that the clock was exactly half an hour fast this evening -- possibly I did set it wrong on taking it out of the oven(!)