No answer. “Jeez, do I have to do everything in this house?” I switched off the cross-trainer. Mopping the sweat from my brow, I glanced at the digital clock on the timer. Quarter to seven. Forty-five minutes to go before the arrival of this Greg character. Scraping my hair back into a ponytail, I wandered out into the corridor to investigate the source of the stench. I realized it was coming from the kitchen, but just before I reached it, Mum raced out of the bathroom wrapped in a dressing gown. “Oh no, I think it’s the potatoes!” she shrieked. Within seconds, the two of us were in the kitchen looking at the ruins of a dinner. Mum had left the food roasting for far too long. The beef was black as charcoal and crispy on top. “I think the roast can be saved,” I said. “But the potatoes are screwed.” The heat had turned them into rock hard, black pebbles.
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