Instructions set in stone - no room for manoeuvre!

A couple of weeks ago when he was working at home, Mr H made some soup, yellow split pea with frankfurters, It's a Nigella recipe, he's made it before, you cook it for ages,  add chopped up frankfurters as it heats through and it's gorgeous, real comfort food.
Today I got some out of the freezer to defrost for tea, I noticed that it looked a bit "lumpy", but heated it, added the franks and served, it tasted great but the split peas were still quite hard. Mr H began with the complaints, but stopped when I pointed out that he had actually made it, so he decided it was obviously Nigellas fault! He couldn't understand where it had all gone wrong, he had followed the recipe to the letter - and therein lies the problem. He has no concept of  "checking if it looks and tastes right", if he has followed the recipe then it has to be ok, there is no flexibility, no possibility of looking at something and deciding that it needs an extra 20 minutes or so cooking, no personalisation, no bloody common sense whatsoever!
He is now sitting in our living room, moaning that the soup wasn't very good, wondering why it wasn't, but not accepting any responsibility! He did wonder (briefly, until I put him right!) whether I had heated it up wrongly!

And as an added bonus, (and something else to moan about!) our TV satellite isn't working properly. It's been a bit "iffy" for the last couple of days, since the heavy winds and snow. I have managed fine with whatever TV I wanted to watch  (which isn't a lot) while Mr H has been away, and even, God forbid, forgot to mention the problem to him, but when I arrived home from work today he was already home and almost beside himself as HD wasn't working;  he has rung helplines, scrolled through all the menu settings, fiddled with remote controls incessantly and moaned. We will probably have to get a man in to sort it out, but in the meantime he can't believe that he has to watch TV that isn't in HD, OMG what deprivation!!

Welcome home Mr H, I sometimes think I enjoy life more when you're away!

Hannah x