day to find it covered in some kind of mould. It had been fine in the morning, but a few hours later and it looked like it had leprosy. I'm so gutted! I was really looking forward to using it in my cooking, but apparently it was not to be. I don't think I should be allowed to look after plants at uni, judging from my history ! I put the pie and the sweet potato chips in the oven and was set to go. Only, the oven here is a gas oven. The oven at home is a fan oven. I haven't used a gas oven on my own before, so cooking everything took a quick check on the conversion of degrees Celcius to gas mark, a lot of praying and finger crossing, and peering through the oven door every five minutes. The chips cooked really well, but the pie for some reason burnt around the edges within about 10 minutes and took another half hour before the middle was deemed edible. I know this is usually a sign of an oven being too hot, but I checked the temperature and also the chips were absolutely fine. Oh well. We ended up eating the chips as a starter while the pie finished cooking, and then scraped off the black bits before eating it. All in all, it wasn't so bad. It was nice to cook again and it was also nice to sit round the table and eat a