I knew very well that you have to be careful with microwaves and liquids. They can reach temperatures of over 100°C while looking perfectly harmless until you move them. I was busy and I forgot. I picked up my cup of coffee, and it exploded with amazing force all over my hand and high up the kitchen wall, where it ruined this amazingly lifelike portrait of my own dear husband. Luckily for me, it somehow went in that direction, and not all over my face!

So my right hand was completely unusable, and I spent an entire day and night sitting/lying with it in a bucket of cold water. Any time I tried to remove it, I was in agony. Fortunately, my hand was usable the next day, and is almost better now. But in the meantime, I was utterly dependent on my nearest and dearest (see very lifelike portrait above) for sustenance. He was all set to exploit this opportunity to the full and put me on a diet or something! Which I don’t even need… I wouldn’t have thought it possible that anyone would actually refuse his own wife seconds of spaghetti under such circumstances, but he did! So, all in all I consider I have had a very lucky escape. Don’t superheat your coffee, folks!