I must admit, I know a few ladies who lunch that keep their Agas banging on all year (except for the months when they pack up and cost a fortune) and drinking wine in their kitchen means stripping off in your bras and pants. Agas are crap. They were invented by a Swiss bloke whose wife had gone blind. When you need them in the winter, they die. Good luck cooking a roast. Maybe the WHF aga was always on, but only the 2 ovens. No glowing coals to heat the gun barrel.
For the sake of accuracy, otherwise Gav will be sending for reinforcements to suppress the usmc invasion - Dr Gustaf Dalén, a
Swede was the inventor of the AGA cooker and what a beautiful piece of olde worlde engineering the original was!
I wonder if Dalen ever thought it might come in useful one day as a testing device to check if a killer's victim was alive after you'd beaten and shot the living daylights out of him?
Solid-fuel fired AGAs are/were usually left on most of the time, otherwise they're a pain to start up again. You can't just switch them on and off at will like an electric oven. Neither can you switch the 2 ovens fully off, the only temperature control being a gimcrack mechanical thermostat.
So it's possible that it was on idle that Summer night; after all there was a family of five or six to feed that week, although they had a mini electric cooker near the sink which could have been used instead.
And of course, JB needed something to dispose of his blood-stained clothing and gloves with. What better way than by opening up the plughole in the left hand hob, then shoving it all in 'till not a trace remained. Could this be the reason for the neat arrangement of cushions and jeans/trousers around the coal scuttle, for JB to dance around without getting his shoe soles covered in blood, and then tramp around the house with leaving prints when he was checking that everyone upstairs was well and truly dead.
