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One day in the kitchen…
My Smoke Alarm: ‘Aww hey there Phil, how you doing today, say, what’s that you’re cooking hon?’
Me: ‘Oh nothing special, just a bit of toast’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘To..toast? Did you say Toast?! FIRE FIRE FIRE CALL THE FIRE BRIGADE FIRE GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!’
Me: (wafting tea-towel desperately, to halt the piercing noise) ‘Stop! Stop! It’s not a fire it’s just toast!!!!’
Another day in the kitchen…
Me: (Stretching and rubbing sleep out of my eyes) ‘Mmm think me and the kids’ll have a taste of France for breakfast’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘Morning Phil, what’s that you say, fancy something different?’
Me: ‘Yep, just slid a couple of pain au chocolats in to the mini oven, don’t take but 30 seconds to co..’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘PASTRIES! PASTRIES! FIRE FIRE!!! GET OUT CALL THE POLICE!!! THE HOUSE IS GONNA BURN DOWN!!!!’
Me: (going deaf in one ear due to pitch of alarm) ‘Where’s the tea-towel gone? stop making that noise!!!!’
One day in the garden…
Me: ‘The sausages are nearly done, who wants some first, hey son, don’t open the kitchen door you’ll let the smoke insi…’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘OOOOOH LORDY LORDY!!! WE ALL GONNA BURN!!! FIRE FIRE CALL THE POLICE!!! FIRE!!!’
Me: ‘Son, just close the door, she’ll quiet down soon enough’
One day in the living-room…
Me: ‘Okay kids, that’s the pumpkins all carved up, now lets put some candles inside th…’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘SAVE YOURSELVES!!! FORGET ABOUT ME!!! RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVESSSSS!!!!’
The kitchen here in France is lovely…but it’s awful quiet…
Mr Mum: The 'joy' of a stay-at-home dad 
Takes me back to my days in halls, when those making toast after a night out would set the fire alarms off and have us all standing outside in the cold in our PJs for ages. Strangely enough, I don’t think I actually have a smoke alarm in my flat in France… (That would have alarm bells of all varieties ringing in the UK!)
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I think we have, I’m pretty sure it’s sat on top of the fridge-freezer, I’m not sure if it’s the fact that it’s further away, or that it’s got a kind of ‘laissez-faire’ approach to smoke-detecting, but I haven’t heard it once!
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The latter would definitely fit with the French ‘mode de vie’!
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If they were any more laid-back they’d be horizontal.
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Good story! My problem with smoke alarms is that I don’t change the batteries regularly. When they eventually run out it’s ALWAYS at 3 a.m. during a very cold night. Always.
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Ha ha ha, yep, I know what you mean, it’s sod’s law!
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I think our smoke alarm is from the same batch as yours. Toast? Opening the oven door to check on a cake? LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!
But accidentally let a pan boil dry, the kitchen is full of smoke, and the fool thing will hang from the ceiling and ask, “Huh? What’s up, Doc?”
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Like my son in many ways. A truck could drive through the livingroom sometimes and he wouldn’t notice, but a tiny, tiny, TINY fly appears and he’s like ‘Aaaaaaaaagh!!!!!’
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