Well, that's a relief

 My mother had the electrician in today to take a look at the electrics in the kitchen after the melting-plug incident I discovered over Christmas. Despite being forty-ish he had to call his dad in for help (family firm, and we've used the dad in the past) because the singed sockets were tiled flush to the wall and they didn't know if they could get them out without smashing up the kitchen tiling, but they managed and so my mother has three new sockets and a new plug on the kettle as he passed the kitchen-wiring and the kettle as safe, but labelled all moulded-on plugs on high-powered appliances as accidents waiting to happen - this one plug has burnt out two sockets and melted itself without the fuse ever blowing so I'm not certain he's wrong.