One ruined iron

Todays blip is certainly not a speckled sunshine moment.

I was in the bathroom for matter of minutes this morning when Kai got the bright idea of climbing, via the back of a chair, up to the fourth shelf of a large set of storage shelves, clambering back down with the iron, plugging it into the hallway socket and proceeding to 'iron' the hallway carpet.

Smelling the telltale melting of fabric, I rushed out to find he had guiltily high-tailed it into the living room leaving the smoking iron facedown on the carpet.

My concern that he was ok (he was very much so thankfully) quickly turned into horror and disbelief.

'How on earth....?? What on earth were you thinking.....???'

Now to 'fess up to the landlady....