Oven miracle might help restore fortunes

The article, “South Kerry in timezone of its own...” (Sept 18) also recently manifested in North Cork.

On returning from the coalface about three weeks ago, I found my heretofore trusty Bosch oven flashing a full Monty of zeros.

Despite shifts spread over the next few hours, all attempts, including incantations incorporating unusual words and phrases in Afrikaans and Zulu, to re-instate righteous behaviour failed.