Bookended the day.
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Cognitive Failure
I covered the saucepan cooking oats and almond meal, and left to go to the toilet. Away probably twenty minutes, maybe five more.
The flame was burning when I got back, to very cooked oats.
It’s one of my biggest fears – something catching alight – and, until today, I thought one of my biggest cautions. Usually I am meticulously careful.
But this morning I left it burning while I went the longest walk to do what needed to be done: far out of sight in the hospital building.
Shocking.
All morning, since 3.30AM, I had been bemoaning the reduced flame due to the cold. Now I know it probably saved my van, my home.
